Keeping Windows Me from going on Hibernate

[SufferWell1396]

how can i?
my sound card driver doesnt support Hibernate..:rolleyes:
if it goes on hibernation it crashes (no Windows Me puns on crashing please;))
so help me out

[Ajmukon]

lets see
Right click & select
Properties>screen saver>power>hibernate>uncheck "Enable hibernation"
(note: Win XP, but if i recall, it is the same for ME)

[mjc]

(no Windows Me puns on crashing please;))



Awwww...darn! :D

[Whyzman]

A word of advice...from M$...don't use the hibernate feature in Windows Me...

No kidding! I had problems early on with Me and my conversations with the M$ techs warned me about hibernate...

When I was downloading with dial-up Me would go into hibernate and upon bootup I would lose modem capabilities...

[SufferWell1396]

I dont know how to turn off Hibernate, under Power Options this is all i get

http://i23.tinypic.com/2ut59hk.jpg

http://i24.tinypic.com/6ql9u1.jpg

[Ajmukon]

that last one, the blank one?
choose an option, like "shut-down PC"
and that is the only thing...

[SufferWell1396]

that didnt work
so what else is there left?

[Whyzman]

I don't have Me on any of my computers any more. Do you have an option under the Power Schemes to chose "never" rather than Always on?

[Ajmukon]

that didnt work
so what else is there left?
....dang and i thought it would work......

well, since the last time i had ME was... 2004 ish...
i have no clue how to stop it from hibernating

[SufferWell1396]

Whyz,
nah all i have is
Laptop
Desktop
and Always On.

i dont think this thing wants to not go into hibernate! :p

[Whyzman]

Here:??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263813

[mjc]

i dont think this thing wants to not go into hibernate! :p

You get all the weird ones, don't you?

I can't count how many 9x and ME systems I've had problems with getting to go into Hibernate mode...it had problems with so many device drivers and what not that it wasn't funny.

[Whyzman]

As I mentioned earlier, the MS folks I talked with told me there were bugs they hadn't worked out yet...and yes, it seemed to have to do with device drivers interfering with the process. They recommended not using it...

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, double-click Power Options.
3. In the Power Options Properties dialog box, click Hibernate.
4. Click to clear the Enable hibernate support check box, and then click OK.

This is from the above link... I'm not sure if this procedure disables it or not

[SufferWell1396]

You get all the weird ones, don't you?
i guess so :rolleyes:

3. In the Power Options Properties dialog box, click Hibernate.
4. Click to clear the Enable hibernate support check box, and then click OK.

theres a problems with that
if you looked at the image i posted above, there is no Power Options Properties dialog box, so there is no Hibernate, so there is to Hibernate support check box.

[Sylvander]

See the screenshot below of my Win2000Pro power management settings available.
I guess both the BIOS and then Windows must support certain power management features for them to available to you within Windows.

Since hibernation configurations aren't available within your Windows OS, perhaps the reason your PC is going into [something like] hibernation...
Is that there are BIOS configurations made within the BIOS Setup telling the BIOS to put the PC into a "Suspend Mode".
It apparently causes problems if the BIOS puts the PC into a suspend mode BEFORE Windows does, so Windows is then unable to un-suspend the system.

My oldest PC's BIOS has the following settings...
Power Management : User Define
PM Control by APM: Yes ..........................[Allows PM function to be controlled by Microsoft APM software]
Suspend Mode: [set a time period value] ....[To set the time delay for suspend mode when Power Management is set to "User Define"]

[SufferWell1396]

since you attached that image, there is infact a hibernation tab in Windows 2000 but NOT Windows Me

compare the images

Windows Me
http://i23.tinypic.com/2ut59hk.jpg

Windows 2000
http://i24.tinypic.com/24ph0n7.jpg

this one has me stumped...

[FTT]

I was thinking the same as Sylvander about it being a possible BIOS problem. Maybe the computer is too old to allow hibernate and is doing something else such as suggested above. Clearly hibernate is available in ME so...

Just for you,,, I booted into ME on my laptop to show this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/M99ER/Clipboard01.jpg

Not only that, I needed to come here as my alter ego after drinking my magic potion...

FTT aka
Fruss
http://planetsmilies.net/eat-drink-smiley-5169.gif

[SufferWell1396]

right, but that shows that ME is capable of going on stand by.
so why isnt it on my computer if 2000 can?

btw,
this isnt an old system
Pentium 4 1.6GHz
756MB RAM

[mjc]

Post 2000-2002 BIOS?

[Whyzman]

Yeah, here's what it "should" look like:

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=pm_enable.pr_pm_home_enable_me

[SufferWell1396]

mjc,
i think the BIOS date is like 8/something/01

and whyz,
i just tried that, ill see if it works

[SufferWell1396]

AH
Whyz!
i think i have seen the light! :D

i think it worked, but ill need to leave it on longer to make sure
i wonder why it made a difference :rolleyes:

[SufferWell1396]

well, i fixed that problem
next problemo
remember when theres that thing
"windows me goes well, it stays stable
or
windows me seems to go well, then all hell breaks loose"

well
all hell broke loose
and now explorer wont stop crashing
so what to do
just kill it?

[mjc]

Drive a stake right through its heart, chop off its head and bury it at a cross roads...

[Ajmukon]

RESTART
First:

then post the error- is it "explorer performed an illegal operation?"

[SufferWell1396]

mjc,
thats just what i might do

Ajmukon,
there is no error
i have to go to the task manager and end it myself

[Ajmukon]

mjc,
thats just what i might do

Ajmukon,
there is no error
i have to go to the task manager and end it myself

well, that does not help...
not sure what else you could try- other than mjc's suggestion...

[SufferWell1396]

yeah,
i think Me is a goner haha

now, first things first
i want to install Windows 98 in the place of Me
but i already have XP and 2000 installed
so what should i do?