Possible to make a PC successfully resume from standby?

[Fox5]

Currently my PC will resume from standby, but only in S1&S3 mode. This mode seems kind of worthless to me, because it doesn't power down any fans.
S3 mode powers everything down, and powers back up, except I never get back to Windows. The monitor doesn't display a picture, and I don't know what stops it from fully booting up again.
My PC is...
Mobile Athlon XP 2600+ @ ~2.3ghz.
Shuttle AN35N Ultra motherboard.
Western Digital 80GB 8MB 7200RPM special hard drive.
Generic DVD and DVD-RW drives.
Creative Audigy 2 ZS.
2x 512MB ram and 1x 256MB ram.(Btw, after adding the 256MB of ram my computer takes a fairly long time to do the memory test on bootup unless I hit escape, anyone know why? I think I also messed up the dual channel configuration, I think I put 1GB in 1 channel and 256MB in the other, I would go back and change it but I don't wanna cause windows to want to reactivate again)
An Achieve 550W power supply with 2 80mm fans(this along with my volcano 12 and two 80mm case fans makes my pc fairly noisy, I don't think it's so much the fans that are making the noise, but rather the air flow).
And a Hyuandai Imagequest L90D+ LCD monitor.

 

[MPI]

Good question. If you ever find out a way let me know. 8)

I've been able to suspend my computer and bring it back... ONCE. After that, no dice. My guess is that all loaded and active drivers must cooperate, and some misbehave, but it's only my speculation.

My laptop suspends nicely, though, in Windows. In Linux, not so much.

 

[Fox5]

Good question. If you ever find out a way let me know. 8)

I've been able to suspend my computer and bring it back... ONCE. After that, no dice. My guess is that all loaded and active drivers must cooperate, and some misbehave, but it's only my speculation.

My laptop suspends nicely, though, in Windows. In Linux, not so much.

Lol, I was trying to fool around with bios settings to see if I could get it to work...all I accomplished was not getting video on bootup after hard rebooting the computer after a standby lokcup until I hooked up an analog monitor which then restored video to the LCD.(though if I didn't do that it would still get video once it got back into windows)
Hibernate works fine, but it only saves about 5 seconds in booting.

 

[Guden Oden]

I had suspend-to-disk fully working on my old PC until a while ago - not that I ever actually USED it for anything. After that it would always crash on bootup.

The new PC refuses to resume from suspend at all - when woken up it simply resets instead. Then again, as it lacks a suspend button on the keyboard it doesn't really matter, and besides, I still don't use suspend anyway. If I want to shut the thing up I turn it off, otherwise it's simply running 24/7.

Powersaving has always been more wizardry than science anyway, if it works at all it's probably just blind luck...

 

[Pete]

S3 > yuo.

I had that problem with my main PC, too, but it seems to have cured itself. Let's see if I can help you figure yours out.

First thing, is I would just ditch the extra 256MB stick unless it really makes a difference. I think most MBs default to slower RAM timings with more than two sticks, and the extra bootup time would annoy me. Maybe the extra stick is causing the problem with resume, too.

Also, what video card are you using?

By following a few Ars threads*, I learned all about standby and S3. Apparently, unless the MB BIOS is configured to support S3 before Windows is installed, it may not work correctly. I assumed this was the case with my PC when I was having trouble coming out of standby, but I don't have that problem anymore. I'm going to end up reinstalling Windows, anyway, but things seem to be working for me now.

* From this thread I found my way to H@'s excellent summary. I posted my problematic experiences (since cured, without a reinstall) at the end of H@'s thread. In my post is a link to a program called Sleeper that you can use (as I did) to check and test what standby options your PC supports.

Incidentally, I'm running a desktop 2600+ Tbred on an Asus nF1 with 2x512MB (no dual channel), so a somewhat similar system. Actually, my Tbred (bought used) is also supposed to be able to OC to 2.3GHz, but my MB doesn't support any OCing at all. That's what you get for pinching pennies with the MB. Anyway, S3 works for me with both the onboard GF2MX and a 9700P. I think it also worked with a 9100.

 

[Fox5]

My ram is still running at the same speed even with the 3rd stick.

Also, I have an MSI 6600GT.
And thanks for the links, I'll check them out later.