Resume after hibernation

**bbosveld** · 11-27-2004, 07:06 AM

The Carputer is almost there!!!

But...

I have a Via MII 12000, running WinXP Pro, with a Lilliput 7" TS, and an Opus 90W. I have it set to Hibernate 20 minutes after the car is shut off. That all goes very well. When I get back into the car and start it all back up the computer gets power, the monitor gets signal (the POST screen displays), the "Resuming Windows" screen displays (along with the ASCII thermometer across the bottom of the screen with the message to "Press f8". And then the screen goes blank?

WinXP Pro is running and the touch Screen works (I can control the MP3 software because I can remember where to press the screen). If I have a keyboard attached and press the 'Window' key or 'Alt-Tab' the screen then activates and all is right again. But no amount of touch-screen imput seems to help.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

**Ninja Monkey** · 11-27-2004, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by bbosveld

The Carputer is almost there!!!

But...

I have a Via MII 12000, running WinXP Pro, with a Lilliput 7" TS, and an Opus 90W. I have it set to Hibernate 20 minutes after the car is shut off. That all goes very well. When I get back into the car and start it all back up the computer gets power, the monitor gets signal (the POST screen displays), the "Resuming Windows" screen displays (along with the ASCII thermometer across the bottom of the screen with the message to "Press f8". And then the screen goes blank?

WinXP Pro is running and the touch Screen works (I can control the MP3 software because I can remember where to press the screen). If I have a keyboard attached and press the 'Window' key or 'Alt-Tab' the screen then activates and all is right again. But no amount of touch-screen imput seems to help.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Try updating your video drivers?

**Tidder** · 11-27-2004, 09:34 AM

Check your power management. I had the same problem, my monitor was set to shut off after 30 minutes. Probably you have the same problem.

But my computer was set to hibernate right away. So I'd shut it down, leave it for a half hour or longer, come back, resume it, and it would think it had been sitting there idle for at least 30min and turn off my monitor.

**bbosveld** · 11-29-2004, 01:02 PM

I looked into the power management and did, indeed, have the monitor set to power off after 15 minutes. I changed that to Never and still had the issue.

But in playing around some more I noticed that if I went into Hibernation whithout any program running in Full-screen (as in with the WinXP Desktop showing) that it recovered from Hiberneation completely.

At first I thought that this might have something to do with MediaCar so I got the newest version of the FrodoPlayer and gave it a try. Same results.

Am I missing some fundamental WinXP setting to get the Windows system to activate the screen on the wakeup from Hibernation when some other app (than the Windows XP Explorer/Desktop) is running full screen?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

**SAScooby** · 11-29-2004, 01:44 PM

i think its in your bios, where you select the type of screen, i dont think your screen is registering the power on from the vga output so the screen is still "off", the touchscreen works cause its a usb/serial device.

**Tidder** · 11-29-2004, 02:06 PM

Strange...

Is it with full screen video? Or just any app that is full screen (ie notpad)?

**spaceman** · 11-29-2004, 02:21 PM

I know this is a bit off topic, but was just wonderin how long it takes you to resume? I am thinkin about going with the MII 12000 but definitely want quick resume. Have searched and times seem to vary quite alot.

Can you also post your other spec - RAM, HD.

Thanks

**bbosveld** · 11-30-2004, 12:57 PM

After some more tests...

The system resumes just fine with excel open full screen. It seems to not like to resume with either MediaCar or the Frodoplayer if they are the active (full screen) application active when it goes into hibernation.

The blank screen occurs with either of those players if they are left as the active app (while in the MP3 player section of their interfaces). I do not know if this is the case if they are left in GPS, Video, DVD, or other areas of their interfaces. But I would bet that if the active app is some other windows app (Garmin nRoute, or PowerDVD) that this would not be a problem).

I will test that next by leaving nRoute active (I have it run "embeded" in Mediacar).

About the resume time...
I don't have a very accurate way to measure the actual boot time. But I would guess that the system POST time is about 2 seconds (certainly not as long as 4). That is unless it is really cold outside and then the harddrive doesn't want to spin up without a little extra time. The rest of the resume time (the windows bit) is probably more dependant on the amount of RAM than anything else. I have 512 MBytes. I would guess (very inacurate) that its somewhere in the 20 - 30 second range. I will be much more interested in working to improve that if/when I get this blank screen issue resolved.