Standby not available in WinXP Pro

[Alfred]

I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It is
using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby is
always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no option
for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options for
Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?

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Regards,

Alfred

[Rich Barry]

Alfred, take a look here http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_standby.htm
"Alfred" > wrote in message
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> I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It is
> using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby is
> always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no
option
> for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options for
> Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Alfred
>
>
>
>
>

[Alex Nichol]

Alfred wrote:

>I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It is
>using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby is
>always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no option
>for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options for
>Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?

Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
installed with APM. you do not have ACPI

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Alfred]

How do I install ACPI?

Alfred

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> Alfred wrote:
>
> >I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It
is
> >using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby
is
> >always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no
option
> >for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options
for
> >Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
>
> Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
> acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
> installed with APM. you do not have ACPI
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[CS]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:21:59 -0700, "Alfred" >
wrote:

The ACPI HAL is installed by default if XP detects a motherboard and
BIOS that is ACPI compatible. Yours is probably not compatible and
therefore you will not be able to use the "Standby" feature. Even if
you were to force an ACPI HAL to be used during the install process,
XP would crash the first time you tried to use "Standby".

>How do I install ACPI?
>
>Alfred
>
>"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
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>> Alfred wrote:
>>
>> >I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled. It
>is
>> >using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However standby
>is
>> >always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no
>option
>> >for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options
>for
>> >Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
>>
>> Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
>> acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
>> installed with APM. you do not have ACPI
>>
>> --
>> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
>> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
>

[Alfred]

Yes but in my BIOS CMOS there is a setting for ACPI. Under power management
I have "ACPI function" set to enabled. Given the option here I therefore
assume that my AOpen AX6BC motherboard (with most recent BIOS) supports
ACPI.
The problem must be with WinXP no?

"CS" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:21:59 -0700, "Alfred" >
> wrote:
>
> The ACPI HAL is installed by default if XP detects a motherboard and
> BIOS that is ACPI compatible. Yours is probably not compatible and
> therefore you will not be able to use the "Standby" feature. Even if
> you were to force an ACPI HAL to be used during the install process,
> XP would crash the first time you tried to use "Standby".
>
> >How do I install ACPI?
> >
> >Alfred
> >
> >"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Alfred wrote:
> >>
> >> >I have a Pentium II 350 machine running WinXP Pro. APM is enabled.
It
> >is
> >> >using an AOpen AX6BC motherboard with the latest BIOS. However
standby
> >is
> >> >always greyed out in the Windows shutdown menu. As well there is no
> >option
> >> >for shutdown under Power Management. Under the BIOS there are options
> >for
> >> >Standby. Why isn't WinXP giving me the option to use standby?
> >>
> >> Because WinXP Standby and Hibernation depend on the presence of
> >> acceptable ACPI - the later power management method. As you have it
> >> installed with APM. you do not have ACPI
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> >> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
> >
>