Powerscheduler Wakeup solution

[McChots]

Hi,

This is for anybody that has been having problems waking from suspend or hibernate. Hope it helps anyone.

This worked for me but I cannot gaurantee that it'll work for you.

My Specs:
MP Version: 0.2.0.3 (Clean install 0.2 + patch)
Skin: two blue
Windows Version: WIN XP Prof. Service Pack 2
CPU Type: AMD XP 1800+
Memory: 768 MB
Motheboard: MSI KM4M-V
Motherboard Chipset: VIA KM 400 (?)
Video Card: Nvidia 5700 LE
Video Card Driver: 91.13 (? ) - Latest
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
TV Card: Hauppauge PVR 150
TV Card Type: hardware
TV Card Driver: (?) - Latest
TV Card: Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP
TV Card Type: software
TV Card Driver: (?) Latest as May 2006

After browsing through this forum and google I have finally been able to fix wake up to work from suspend and hibernate.

After downloading dumppo.exe ( from microsofts ftp server - can't remenber the link - search this forum) and confirming that my PC supported wake up from hibernate ( type dumppo cap ) I found the following software :
http://www.passmark.com/ftp/sleeper.zip or
www.passmark.com/products/sleeper.htm

Running the test told me that my pc supported only S3(suspend) and S4(hibernate) and wake up was fully supported. Also my pc needed a minimum of about 67 seconds to wake from S3 and 83 to wake from S4.

Using this info I change powersheduler options to Wake up 3 min before and sleep after 5 min. Ran MP again but wake up still did not work. Log shows powersheduler going to sleep at the correct time and then complaining that wakeupTimer expired after I had manually turned the pc back on.

Finally figuring the problem to be with windows not setting wakeup correctly in bios, I reset bios settings to default and restarted my pc and MP. In no other posts did I see any great mention of Bios settings which is why I didn't try this first.

It's been 2 days now and MP has been waking perfectly from suspend and hibernate modes.

From what I can remember the key Bios settings that changed from my original configuration were:
Wake Up by Alarm : Disabled
and under IRQ Activity Monitoring
IRQ 8 RTC Alarm : Disabled

I don't know for sure if disabling these options made the difference but it seems logical.


Perhaps if other users who don't have problems with powerscheduler can post their Power Management Bios settings, it could help a few people who have been having this problem.