Standby/Hibernate Options Missing In Win2K

[bwanawanabe]

For the last two months I have searched information sites and tried everything I can think of to solve this problem. It's time to ask for help...

I have a Gateway Performance 500 (remaining stats at end of post) that I bought with win98se. I upgraded to win2k and added sp2, switching to NTFS during the process. In my power management and shutdown, I have no hibernate or standby related options. The old win98se had some sort of sleep option that worked, thus I didn't pay much attention to it so I don't remember the details.

I've tried turning power mgmt on and off in the BIOS. I updated the BIOS to the latest version from Gateway (stated to support win2k). When I run apmstat, it says I have an ACPI capable machine. I set ACPIEnable = 1 in [ACPIOptions] in file txtsetup.sif. I re-installed win2k as an OS update after the BIOS update.

Does anyone have any other ideas of how I might get a hibernate or standby capability?

Thanks.

Details
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Gateway Performance 500
Intel (Tabor3) BX Motherboard R1
Win2k, SP2
4w45b0x0.15a.0019.p14 BIOS
NTFS

 

[ChunkiMunki]

I disabled ACPI because of problems, but you might check Control Panel/Power Options and see if there are any hibernate or power management options you can enable.

 

[bwanawanabe]

There is no "System standby" entry field on the Power Schemes tab and no Hibernate tab at all on the Power Options Window. The "When I press the power button on my computer" pull-down on the Advanced tab on the Power Options window includes only "Power Off" - there is no "Standby" entry.

 

[bwanawanabe]

I have successfully gotten standby and hibernate to be available on my computer.

I copied the win2k install disk to my hard drive, edited txtsetup.sif to change ACPIEnable from 2 to 1, burned the entire install disk image to CD, and did a CLEAN install from the new CD. An update install does NOT do the trick.

It cost me another half day after reinstalling all my apps, but not too bad considering I'd already been fighting this thing for two months. Persistence seems to have been the key once again.