Re: ACPI power supply relation?

steve.miller.blues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Paul, crazy,

These are the results I got.

Admin policy overrides
Min sleep state......: S1
Max sleep state......: S4 - hibernate
Min video timeout....: 0
Max video timeout....: -1
Min spindown timeout.: 0
Max spindown timeout.: -1
power capabilties
System power capabilties
Power Button Present....: TRUE
Sleep Button Present....: FALSE
Lid Present.............: FALSE
System states supported.: S1 S4 S5
Hiber file reserved.....: TRUE
Thermal control.........: TRUE
CPU Throttle control....: TRUE
Processor min throttle..: 50
Processor trottle scale.: 100 (1%)
Some disk will spindown.: TRUE
System batteries present: FALSE
System batteries scale..: (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0) (G:0 C:0)
Ac on line wake ability.: Unspecified
Lid wake ability........: Unspecified
RTC wake ability........: S4 - hibernate
Min device wake.........: Unspecified
Default low latency wake: Unspecified


Very Promising I would say.



AHA!

"System states supported.: S1 S4 S5"

The BIOS is saying perhaps, that S3 Suspend To RAM
is not stable ? There is no claimed support for S3
on your machine.

This is what was in the one I posted, which is from my
current machine. Now, most of the time, I can S3 Suspend
To RAM, but I have had the occasional issue with recovery
the next day (crash). I've switched to S4 (hibernate) instead.
So my BIOS says S3 works, when in fact it doesn't seem to be
completely reliable. All the other computers I have,
have perfectly working S3. This is the only one (VIA
chipset), that sucks.

"System states supported.: S1 S3 S4 S5"

And dumppo.exe cannot fix that, because the declaration
is coming from the BIOS.

If you want to investigate further, you'll need some other
environment to work in - I'm not aware of anything other
than dumppo, that displays that info. I tried Everest,
but it isn't there. Maybe a Linux LiveCD, and then some
Linux tool, can give a raw report of what the BIOS is
passing for ACPI tables.

HTH,
Paul
.

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