Gonna need some hardware info here - what type of hard disk controller is in your system? Intel? AMD? Via? Need system specs.
 
 
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Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE COntroller
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Do you have a decoder card for the DVD? Not trying to be difficult, but I still don't have enough info. Hibernation is working fine for me on a soltek sl67b (intel bx chipset) mobo with a couple of quantum kx hard drives and a cd burner and cd rom on the secondary ide channel. You might want to put the dvd on the secondary channel as master. If there is a decoder card, the drivers for it may be keeping it from hibernating. Good luck.
 
 
 
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Well, i had the DVD on the secondary channel first.. and i got the same error message.. but it said " a driver.. on the second ide channel ", ( it was master ) so i swap it to slave on the first IDE.. same error.. so i figured out.. that it has the be the DVD.. but i don't have any decoder card....i have a voodoo 3... is weird.. cause in win98 it goes to stanby just fine.. ..
It has to be the DVD.. any idea what to look for?

Standby and Hibernate are 2 different things. Hibernate needs a certain amount of space to save your currently loaded programs....I'm not sure where it saves everything to on your HD though. How much HD space does your NT drive have free? How much space does your primary partition have free?
 
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C:\Dos\Run
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More than enough .. .. 20Gbs.. 10/10 in 2 partitions.. =), im sure i dont' have 10GB in RAM ....
Anyway windows says it only requieres 160 megs to do that.. thats my system memory..
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I've never tried going into hibernation on my home system but mabye you could try disabling DMA on your primary HD and then trying hibernation?
 
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C:\Dos
C:\Dos\Run
\Run\Dos\Run

That shouldn't make a difference. Have you updated the aspi layer from adaptec? Are you running some other disk utility in the background? Sorry - can't think of anything else - try disconnecting the dvdrom and see if you can hibernate with it disconnected. That might at least help you narrow things down.
 
 
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W2K requires that ALL hardware is compliant before allowing hibernation.
 
Use the compatiblity tools at http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/acpihct.htm to determine if your hardware complies.
 
Also, you'll probably find you get much better performance from your machine if the CD and HD devices are on different IDE channels...
 
Also, check for any firmware upgrades for the DVD drive...
 
 
 
 
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IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
CL TNT1 AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
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