Systems hangs when trying to resume from S3 standby

[nettech99]

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The systems hangs when trying to resume from S3 standby. There is no video, the keyboard and mouse does not work. There is the noise from the Power supply fan and CPU fan spinning, but it wont come out of standby. Also, the system will do a memory count/test of the 4GB of system memory at boot, then the system reboots. I have to cancel the memory test/count to boot the computer into Windows.

My configuration information is below.

Sys Board: Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI Rev 1.0
BIOS Ver: CSS-MCP51-16 12-17-2007, Phoenix
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 2.13 GHz, model 6420

Memory Size: 4x1GB, 4GB total, Dual channel, DDR2
Memory Brand: Corsair Twin 2x2048 - 6400C4 G (2x1GB), 800MHz
OCZ Reaper HPC, OCZ2RPR8002GK, (2x1GB), 800MHz
Memory Configuration: 4-4-4-12 2T @800MHz

Graphics Card: PNY GeForce 7600GS PCIe(Nvidia GPU) 512MB DDR2
Graphics Driver: Nvidia 6.14.11.7824 October 2008
Power Supply: Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500
Power Supply wattage: 500 watt ATX

Storage Devices: Maxtor 6H400F0, SATA 400GB on SATA 1
Seagate ST3500641AS-RK, SATA 500GB on SATA 2
Hard drives are in a JBOD RAID configuration
Optical Devices: IDE Sony 18x DVDRW, IDE 40x CDRW
Operation System: Windows XP Professional SP3 English
Other Devices: PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse

 

[mindless1]

These are probably but not necessarily, two different, unrelated problems. For the reboot during the memory count, try updating the bios if a newer one is available, then if that fails to help unplug everything non-essential to getting to the end of the POST and enumeration (Meaning you need no drives yet, nothing but CPU, heatsink/fan, memory, video card) to see if it proceeds till it can't find a bootable device. If it makes it that far, add back devices one at a time. If it doesn't, you may be stuck unless some bios change helps (Maybe memory timings changes or a slight voltage increase since you're running 4 x modules at low timings). You might also try running memtest86+ for several hours.

As for the hang coming out of S3, try different driver versions particularly for video. Is that 6.14.11.7824 driver direct from PNY? Usually it would be expressed as 178.24 which is why I ask. Try both newer and older (pre-170.nn series) standard drivers from nVidia (or from a 3rd party if nVidia isn't offering the older versions, I haven't checked on that recently). If video driver change doesn't help, selectively disable other things with drivers added in Device Manager, then try going into S3 and waking up again, then repeat for each other device.