My setup is an Evesham Evolution 2800 Blue Lightning containing a Pentium 4 3GHz, 1GB DDR RAM, 120GB Hard Drive, Radeon 9600 256Mb VGA/DVI-I/TV-out and 17″ Viewsonic VP171S DVI plus Optical Drives. I am running Win XP Home SP2.
It was not until I had had the machine for several months that I attempted to put it into Standby or Hibernate. By then I had done a huge amount of work setting the machine up as I want it including partitioning the hard drive using Partition Magic and loading numerous programs.
The machine goes into both Hibernate and Standby OK, but it will not wake up correctly. The fans come back on but the monitor does not so I cannot do anything but a hard close down. The monitor flashes briefly to say ‘No Signal’ and then switches off. I have tried it with the analogue cable rather than the digital cable but the same thing happens.
Evesham will not look at the problem unless I have tried a full System Restore first. I am most reluctant to do that as there is no Win XP CD – just a set of Restore CDs that wipe the hard drive first.
I have updated the video driver in case that was the problem but to no avail. Can anyone suggest what else I could try to solve this problem.