GA-B75M-D3H with Windows XP - Hibernate and standby are Not available

[mf90000]

Hello all,

This is an existing XP system image that was hibernating previously on an AMD based motherboard.
Most new Windows driver issues seem to be resolved (don't care about VGA and extra Audio HD device).

Interestingly, hibernate works under Linux Mint 13!
Windows Device Mgr shows that it is recognized as an ACPI Multiprocessor PC.
For now, I'm running the SATA controller in IDE not AHCI mode. Not sure why this would make a difference.

More system config: G1610 processor, 2x 2Gb GB memory, one SATA hard drive and DVD-RAM drive.
FYI hiberfil.sys is no longer present and there is 11GB+ available on the C: drive.

Any ideas about what would be the cause?
I'm suspecting some obscure, confusingly named BIOS option ....

TIA, Mike

[mf90000]

UPDATE on this issue.

Downloading and installing the 'VGA' driver then rebooting Fixed This Problem!

I have never run across a similar issue and fix in my years of building and fixing x86 desktop systems.

Perhaps it is somehow related to the shared memory used by the built in video functions of the processor and chipset, but that's just a semi-educated guess. I can't recall it occurring on AMD based systems that I've worked on.

If anyone knows of a more definitive explanation especially from Intel or their OEM customers, please post an excerpt and link here.

Thanks!