invalid hibernation partition/file????

On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:59:58 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

""I believe the info in the "$BID$9999" blocks will be reported by the
BIOS/POST if the Insert key is held down during power-up""

It works on my machines. shrug

Anyway it's not important, it's just a curiosity.

Held down the Ins key with no luck.
The only key that works during bootup is the Del key to enter BIOS.

Also disabled the HD in BIOS, still no luck. Shows the floppy and CD drive.
Set BIOS bootup(1st), floppy then CD(2nd) and disabled IDE(0) (3rd).

The BIOS shows CD drive while, in fact, it has a dvd-rom drive inserted.
Make any difference?

Not in my experience.

I have a cd-rom drive that came with system but not sure how to replace, if
needed.

Short version:

Try removing your HD or one memory stick and see if the BIOS will
offer to "(R)esume, (B)oot, (P)ower down".

Long version:

As Gary said, it appears that your BIOS/POST insists on looking at the
hibernate partition before it does anything else. You may be forced to
HDPREP your HD in your desktop machine to satisfy your laptop's BIOS.

Otherwise the only other thing I would try is to physically remove
your HD. Hopefully this will allow you to boot to a floppy diskette.
Does it? If yes, then I would then use AMI's amibcp.exe utility to
enable the missing features in your BIOS menu, and then flash this
modified BIOS to your laptop. Before doing this, however, I would try
to backup your laptop's existing BIOS to a file, and then modify this
file rather than either of the two images I downloaded from Gericom's
web site.

If you look at the .rpt files on my web site ...

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/340S8/

.... you will notice that there are many BIOS setup menu features which
have been disabled. At least two of these appear to relate to suspend
to RAM or disk.

A third option is to boot to a floppy diskette, save the contents of
your CMOS RAM to a file (using a CMOS backup utility, eg CMOSBAK),
modify this file with the "suspend" values determined from the
amibcp.exe utility, and then write this modified file back to CMOS
RAM. I can help you do this if you can email me your CMOS backup file.

FWIW, I found the following text strings in the Notebook module in the
BIOS code. I notice that there are two references to
enabling/disabling Power Management, both in the Notebook module and
in the Power Management Setup menu. Only one PM option is active in
the menu. The inactive one is always enabled. Maybe that's the
problem.

Notice the warning message about "system component(s) changed since
last suspend". Maybe if you removed one of your memory sticks or your
battery, the BIOS will offer to "(R)esume, (B)oot, (P)ower down".

================================================== ===================
AMIBIOS Power Management Ver. 1.10 (C) Copyright 1998, American
Megatrends Inc. Power Management, (C) American Megatrends Inc. Saving
to Disk Restoring from Disk % Error during RESUME from
HIBERNATION...RUN HDPREPEZ... Invalid HIBERNATION partition/file...RUN
HDPREPEZ... Error during SMRAM initialization...Non-SMI CPU...Power
Management functionality DISABLED... Power Management DISABLED in
SETUP... Disk does not contain suspend information... Following
system component(s) changed since last suspend... * System Memory *
Video Memory * System Disk Critical Battery Do you want to (R)esume,
(B)oot, (P)ower down ? Do you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down ? Do
you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down, or connect AC power and select
(R)esume ?
================================================== ===================

Power Management Setup menu (those marked '*' are not active)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Option Name Rights Optimal Failsafe CMOS Mask
Default Default Reg. Val.
------------------------------------------------------------------
*Power Management Both Enabled Enabled 61h 80h
Power Management Both Enable Enable 62h 01h

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

Will try other suggestion when I get back to office Tuesday. Have a
granddaughter grad from hi-school this wek-end.
Besides, I need a break from this.

You guys have a great week-end.




"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:59:58 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

""I believe the info in the "$BID$9999" blocks will be reported by the
BIOS/POST if the Insert key is held down during power-up""

It works on my machines. shrug

Anyway it's not important, it's just a curiosity.

Held down the Ins key with no luck.
The only key that works during bootup is the Del key to enter BIOS.

Also disabled the HD in BIOS, still no luck. Shows the floppy and CD
drive.
Set BIOS bootup(1st), floppy then CD(2nd) and disabled IDE(0) (3rd).

The BIOS shows CD drive while, in fact, it has a dvd-rom drive inserted.
Make any difference?

Not in my experience.

I have a cd-rom drive that came with system but not sure how to replace,
if
needed.

Short version:

Try removing your HD or one memory stick and see if the BIOS will
offer to "(R)esume, (B)oot, (P)ower down".

Long version:

As Gary said, it appears that your BIOS/POST insists on looking at the
hibernate partition before it does anything else. You may be forced to
HDPREP your HD in your desktop machine to satisfy your laptop's BIOS.

Otherwise the only other thing I would try is to physically remove
your HD. Hopefully this will allow you to boot to a floppy diskette.
Does it? If yes, then I would then use AMI's amibcp.exe utility to
enable the missing features in your BIOS menu, and then flash this
modified BIOS to your laptop. Before doing this, however, I would try
to backup your laptop's existing BIOS to a file, and then modify this
file rather than either of the two images I downloaded from Gericom's
web site.

If you look at the .rpt files on my web site ...

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/340S8/

... you will notice that there are many BIOS setup menu features which
have been disabled. At least two of these appear to relate to suspend
to RAM or disk.

A third option is to boot to a floppy diskette, save the contents of
your CMOS RAM to a file (using a CMOS backup utility, eg CMOSBAK),
modify this file with the "suspend" values determined from the
amibcp.exe utility, and then write this modified file back to CMOS
RAM. I can help you do this if you can email me your CMOS backup file.

FWIW, I found the following text strings in the Notebook module in the
BIOS code. I notice that there are two references to
enabling/disabling Power Management, both in the Notebook module and
in the Power Management Setup menu. Only one PM option is active in
the menu. The inactive one is always enabled. Maybe that's the
problem.

Notice the warning message about "system component(s) changed since
last suspend". Maybe if you removed one of your memory sticks or your
battery, the BIOS will offer to "(R)esume, (B)oot, (P)ower down".

================================================== ===================
AMIBIOS Power Management Ver. 1.10 (C) Copyright 1998, American
Megatrends Inc. Power Management, (C) American Megatrends Inc. Saving
to Disk Restoring from Disk % Error during RESUME from
HIBERNATION...RUN HDPREPEZ... Invalid HIBERNATION partition/file...RUN
HDPREPEZ... Error during SMRAM initialization...Non-SMI CPU...Power
Management functionality DISABLED... Power Management DISABLED in
SETUP... Disk does not contain suspend information... Following
system component(s) changed since last suspend... * System Memory *
Video Memory * System Disk Critical Battery Do you want to (R)esume,
(B)oot, (P)ower down ? Do you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down ? Do
you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down, or connect AC power and select
(R)esume ?
================================================== ===================

Power Management Setup menu (those marked '*' are not active)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Option Name Rights Optimal Failsafe CMOS Mask
Default Default Reg. Val.
------------------------------------------------------------------
*Power Management Both Enabled Enabled 61h 80h
Power Management Both Enable Enable 62h 01h

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

I presume that means you are still seeing the "hibernate" error
message.

Will try other suggestion when I get back to office Tuesday. Have a
granddaughter grad from hi-school this wek-end.
Besides, I need a break from this.

You guys have a great week-end.

There is one more easy thing to try. In the case of my old socket 7
motherboard's AMI BIOS, holding down the End key during power-up
clears the CMOS RAM. Maybe this will work for you ...

One other thought occurred to me. In your OP you stated that you
formatted your HD. This would suggest that any special "suspend to
disk" partition would still be intact. If OTOH the suspend data were
written to a suspend file in a standard partition, then this file
would have been destroyed during formatting. This begs the question,
is the BIOS looking for a file or partition, and does it matter?

Just one more thought. You could look for suspend modes S3 (Suspend to
Ram) and S4 (Suspend to Disk) in your BIOS setup. If you find that PM
is set for S4, then choose S1 (POS) instead.

The above states are described he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ower_Interface

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

Try setting "Clear NVRAM" to "Yes" in your PCI/PnP SETUP. This will
wipe the ESCD table but may also clear other stuff.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:05:11 -0500, "L." put finger to
keyboard and composed:

Invalid HIBERNATION partition/file...RUN HDPREPEZ...

Do you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down? __

I'm sorry if you've answered this question already, but what happens
if you choose (B)oot, assuming you have a bootable floppy or CD, or
even a bootable HD?

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Not a problem in asking this.
This thread is getting confussing to me.

Once I get the msg,
"invalid hiber--------"
"Do you want----".

The keyboard is locked up.
I've tried every key, every key, in different combination, Ctrl, Alt,
Delete, etc.


"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:05:11 -0500, "L." put finger to
keyboard and composed:

Invalid HIBERNATION partition/file...RUN HDPREPEZ...

Do you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down? __

I'm sorry if you've answered this question already, but what happens
if you choose (B)oot, assuming you have a bootable floppy or CD, or
even a bootable HD?

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Correct. Even with HD removed still get same msg and lockup.
Need to stop by office today before heading out of town tomorrow so will try
'End' key.
Will also look for any Suspend modes in BIOS.

"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

I presume that means you are still seeing the "hibernate" error
message.

Will try other suggestion when I get back to office Tuesday. Have a
granddaughter grad from hi-school this wek-end.
Besides, I need a break from this.

You guys have a great week-end.

There is one more easy thing to try. In the case of my old socket 7
motherboard's AMI BIOS, holding down the End key during power-up
clears the CMOS RAM. Maybe this will work for you ...

One other thought occurred to me. In your OP you stated that you
formatted your HD. This would suggest that any special "suspend to
disk" partition would still be intact. If OTOH the suspend data were
written to a suspend file in a standard partition, then this file
would have been destroyed during formatting. This begs the question,
is the BIOS looking for a file or partition, and does it matter?

Just one more thought. You could look for suspend modes S3 (Suspend to
Ram) and S4 (Suspend to Disk) in your BIOS setup. If you find that PM
is set for S4, then choose S1 (POS) instead.

The above states are described he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ower_Interface

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Don't remember seeing this line but will look and report back later today.



"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

Try setting "Clear NVRAM" to "Yes" in your PCI/PnP SETUP. This will
wipe the ESCD table but may also clear other stuff.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Went through entire BIOS and there is no setting for PCI/Pnp setup.



"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

Try setting "Clear NVRAM" to "Yes" in your PCI/PnP SETUP. This will
wipe the ESCD table but may also clear other stuff.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Correct, removed HD and still no go.
Held down End key on startup, no go.

under PM section this is what I have and selections.

Power Management dis / enable
Power Switch on/off / suspend
LID Switch Type Screenoff / suspend
Suspend Mode Dis / POS(s1) / STD(s4)
Suspend Time out Dis / Enable
HD Time Out Dis / select 1-15 minutes

I have dis/enable PM.
have changed Suspend settings to Dis/enable
Set Suspend Mode to Dis then POS(S1) and STD (S4)


have tried many different combinations, no go.


"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:05 -0500, "L.S." put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Removed HD this afternoon with no luck. !#@(**&^*^&@!@#

I presume that means you are still seeing the "hibernate" error
message.

Will try other suggestion when I get back to office Tuesday. Have a
granddaughter grad from hi-school this wek-end.
Besides, I need a break from this.

You guys have a great week-end.

There is one more easy thing to try. In the case of my old socket 7
motherboard's AMI BIOS, holding down the End key during power-up
clears the CMOS RAM. Maybe this will work for you ...

One other thought occurred to me. In your OP you stated that you
formatted your HD. This would suggest that any special "suspend to
disk" partition would still be intact. If OTOH the suspend data were
written to a suspend file in a standard partition, then this file
would have been destroyed during formatting. This begs the question,
is the BIOS looking for a file or partition, and does it matter?

Just one more thought. You could look for suspend modes S3 (Suspend to
Ram) and S4 (Suspend to Disk) in your BIOS setup. If you find that PM
is set for S4, then choose S1 (POS) instead.

The above states are described he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance...ower_Interface

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.