Win90 SE wake up problems

[Microbman]

I have several computers in my home that use win98se on various mobos (IWILL266, P3B-F,P2B,CUSL-2)and all have experienced a similar problem waking up from sleep mode. After the puters sleep for a period of time either lenghtly like a day or a half hour they are difficult to wake up. Moving the mouse, hitting a key won't usually wake them. I need to click on the desktop in several locations until most or all of the desktop is revealed. At times this only partially works. Hitting F5 sometimes works but usually only when some part of the desktop has appeared. Many times even after waking programs (games) will not operate properly and I usually end up rebooting. All the puters have been scanned for viruses using Norton 2000. Most of these puters have been up and running from several years to 10 months. When they intially were built this prob did not exist. It seems to have cropped up from puter to puter only in the last 6 months or so. Non of the wake up mode settings have been changed on the mobos as this anoyance has developed. Considering there are several mobos here there is no common ground as far as settings, only win98se.
Anyone have comments or suggestions on this? Is this common in win98se? A patch available? Huge TX for any help you can give me.

 

[Thor86]

Have you installed all latest motherboard drivers if any are required? Also, have you updated your OS at the Windows Update site with all critical and some recommended patches?

 

[Microbman]

Yeh, this may some of the prob. I haven't updated the win98 drivers. Gotta do on for all the machines we got here. Have you heard of this condition before?

 

[SharkB8]

Microbman- I had the same problem with 98SE with some variation. When I tried to wake up my P3B-F based system from sleep mode all that would appear on the monitor was a bunch of indestinguishable garbage. This problem existed from the very first time I booted this system up. As with your case, often times the only fix was to reboot. I trouble shot this problem off and on for several months before I finally just gave up. I had done everything I could think of and performed updates on for all hardware and software to no avail. I ended up resorting to shutting off the monitor at night while leaving the CPU running, that was the closest I ever got to sleep mode using 98SE.
I also searched every computer forum I could find including this one and found that there were others who were experiencing the same problem but nobody had a valid solution to the problem.

This is probably not what you want to hear but I fixed the problem by converting to Windows 2000. I have 2 systems, the P3B-F and a CUSL2-C, and both have Windows 2000 installed with all sleep and hibernations modes working perfectly. I know that I have written a lot for not giving you a solution but I wanted you to know that you are not the first to have this problem. FYI, this is one of the only problems with my systems that I have not been able to figure out and it has always bothered me that I couldn't.

 

[Microbman]

Hey thanks for your reply B8. Four systems in this house are experiencing this prob. The OS for all were taken from the same orig win98/se discs. All began experiencing this prob at different times. I built another system for someone else using the CUSL-2 mobo and this began about two months after the sys was built. This person never liked shutting her sys down and so this crept up sooner. Most in this house are shut down daily or every other day so it took longer to surface. It is very interresting to find this happening to others. One would think that MS would pick up on this and put out a patch. I need to update the drivers for this OS which I have not done but what I understand is that this will not solve this prob. The only good fix is to reboot, or shut down and restart. The only good thing is that we have absolutely no prob on startup. I really hate to get rid of win98 as it has been really reliable.. I read all the time about serious probs with win2000 even tho it's getting better, but still 98 is the most stable /reliable of the bunch as far as I can tell except for the lucky few. If I was that lucky I would have won the lotto and had someone else worry about this for me! Also the thought of saving all the hordes of stuff on my puter and starting over with a new OS and install probs abhores me.

If anyone knows of a fix I will cotinue to monitor this thread. Big TX for all your help.

 

[SharkB8]

Dude, don't be afraid of Windows 2000. I was very apprehensive about converting but will never go back to 98SE after converting everything I have almost 10 months ago. I have not had any problems at all and I find 2K to be 100 times the OS that 98SE ever was. Stability is awesome, the system I am writing this on has run 24/7 for the entire 10 months that 2k has been loaded on it. Don't be scared to take the plunge, especially using the ASUS mobos that you are using. You won't have to load any strange chipset drivers except on the CUSL2 and most likely drivers for everything else that you have will be resident the first time that you boot up after loading it. I don't play a lot of games but I know that the MS Compatibility updates have fixed many problems that first existed in the beginning in this area.
I know that this is not what this thread is about but I know that I have been more than satisfied with Windows 2000, as many here have. Also, I am 95% that the issue that this thread is about won't exist under 2K. PM me if you want to talk more about this.