No hibernate or standby function

[Galli]

Hi,
just installed a new GA-MA770T-UD3 version 1.4 motherboard and found that I have no standby or hibernate function available.
This board was a replacement for a faulty version 1.1 board, that board did have the standby function available.
I have tried changing the BIOS settings, updating all of the drivers, BIOS version and so on but cannot get the standby working.
When I open the power options in the control panel, the selection is simply missing. I can just set the time to turn off the hard disks and monitor.

Does anyone have any idea why this is not working properly ?

Thanks
Galli.

PC Spec :-
Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100427-1636)
Gigabyte  GA-MA770T-UD3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor,  MMX,  3DNow (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 512 MB RAM  - Driver: 6.14.0012.6099 (English
Several hard drives, DVD-RAM.

[Dark Mantis]

It might be worth trying to clear the CMOS first completely and then flash the BIOS with the latest version and do it using QFlash not @BIOS. On the QFlash mainscreen disable the option to Keep DMI Data and then proceed with the update. Afterwards load Optimised BIOS Defaults and make any other changes you want to before pressing F10 to save and exit.

[Galli]

Hi,
just tried that, no difference in the power options available.

Any other ideas ?

Thanks

Galli.

[Dark Mantis]

Presumably everything else is the same as you had installed previously when you had the options on the faulty board?
Is it the same BIOS version?

[Galli]

Hi - yes me again - sorry about that !!

I'm not sure about the previous version of BIOS. The new board is a version 1.4, the previous one was a 1.1. The standby mode was definitely working with the old board.
I have downloaded the most recent BIOS for the V 1.4 board and loaded that.

Is the graphics card somehow involved in the hibernate and/or standby mode ?

When I installed the new board, I didn't re-load Windows - just plugged everything in and it worked - do you think there is something in the registry or somewhere else that I have inadvertently failed to update ?

Thanks,
Galli.

[absic]

Although the motherboards are the same number there are possible differences with the hardware (Gigabyte doesn't always make it clear what has been changed between revisions) The fact that you used your previous install from the rev 1.1 board could have a bearing on the fact that Hibernate and standby functions are no longer working.

The only way to know for certain is to do a clean install of the Operating System.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I too would agree with absic on this point. You need to do a clean install of Windows whenever you change a major piece of hardware like this.