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by andy31ok

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I have recently built an athlon 1800xp on a gigabyte dxr7+ mainboard with the latest bios i have a creative 5.1 sound card latest drivers and a radeon 64mb ddr graphics card. I cannot get the options to enter power saving modes, standby and hibernate under windows XP. As far as I know all drivers are compatable with power saving and it is enabled in the bios so I need help on this one i know that there was a file under windwos me called nohiber that listed the culprit but cannot find a similar file under xp any help welcome.

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by thechas

Have you installed the XP updates from Microsoft?
I assume by latest drivers for the sound card, that you have installed the XP update from Creative.

There is a good power management trouble shooting guide posted at www.aumha.org

I have also seen a few Athlon motherboards that do not shutdown properly unless you manually set the CPU clock speed.

Chas

by andy31ok

As i mentioned all drivers at latest vesion xp updates all installed, no probs with shutdown just no power management options. have no idea why xp will not give me these options in power management as it shows my computer to be acpi compliant.

by andy31ok

Fixed the problem, It was to do with the fact that the hal for xp cannot cope with the boot drive being moved from the ide channel to the raid channel. Reset it all up on the raid channel and xp is very happy all power functions available.

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