Standby in W2K Question?

[Needles]

Whenever I try to put my computer in standby I get an error message saying my generic volume doesn't support it and that I should check the drivers. What the hell is the generic volume? The hard drive? The IDE controller?

I also can't put my system in hibernate. I check the box and click apply or ok and I get a message poping up saying Incorrect Function. The title on the pop-up says Power policy unable to save hibernate file. How do I fix this?

 

[Psychoholic]

Is your computer ACPI compliant? If so is it set that way in W2K? If you have no idea what I'm talking about seach this forum on ACPI.

 

[Needles]

Yeah it is. I have Soyo 6VBA-133 mobo. Although I have noticed that there is no APM tab on the power options window. I changed the mobo from an Iwill BD100. Do I need to reinstall W2k?? This is what I am thinking.

 

[AndyHui]

If your Win2K was installed with the ACPI HAL, you will not have the APM tab in the Power Options under Control Panel.

So you changed over motherboards without reformatting?

The Iwill board is a BX chipset and the Soyo board is an Apollo Pro 133 (693???? WHY did you get this board?!?!?!)? Usually it is best to do a reinstall when you go from an Intel chipset to a VIA chipset or the other way around to make sure the devices all get detected properly and the drivers loaded properly as well.

 

[Needles]

I got the board because it was free. So far I haven't had any problems with it. Is it a bad board? I read some reviews of it and it seemed to come up favourably. Besides I wanna switch to DDR in about a year so I figured what the hell.

 

[Needles]

I think I got it working!!!! Gonna test it over night and see if it works.