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At 12:04 AM 1/23/96 -0600, Ron Heiby wrote: >It isn't clear to me exactly which model(s) Mike is talking about having >problems with. The problems with A/C attached have been with the TP series >since at least the 750 family. I personally gave up on Hibernation when I >upgraded my 750 RAM to 20Meg and felt I didn't have enough disk space to >handle the hibernation file and also lacked the patience to deal with the >problems hibernation had. I have never missed it. > >With the 755CE, I found that the suspend on A/C problems continued, until >I installed SYTPE140 BIOS. Of course, to be fair, around that time, I also >installed the Mwave 2.0 stuff, which made the Mwave modem functions work, >which meant that I could yank my XJ2144 PCMCIA modem. Way back in the back >of my mind, I have this feeling that whenever I had no PCMCIA cards inserted, >that suspend on A/C worked. So, maybe it isn't a fix in the BIOS, but rather >the fact that I don't currently need a PCMCIA card. > >Before this, I had resigned myself to the fact that I would have to unplug >before suspending, rather than unplug after suspending. No big deal. > >Ron. > > > I have a 755CD where having a working suspend/hybernate is more critical since you need to use at least suspend to swap between floppy and CD-ROM drives. I actually have my system working "reliably" with suspend or hybernate so long as a) I turn off the 3com PCMCIA ethernet card before hybernating (usually I don't have to do this for suspend) b) I make sure the cover is open before I suspend if I was going to open it anyway (say to change a drive) c) I pull the power connector or turn off the power to the power supply before hitting the suspend or hybernate icons. Then these glitches still occur: 1) Sometimes (?not always) putting in the CD-ROM drive after suspend locks up the mouse (either glidepoint or trackpoint). This is assuming I am swapping from floppy to CD-ROM. It doesn't seem to lock up going the other way around (from CD-ROM to floppy) 2) The battery state goes a little haywire. When I plug power back in, the battery wants to discharge even though it is 99%, and the hours remaining often goes into the flashing (8.88) mode. All of this is under WIN95. I can live with most of this (except the mouse locking up) to save the rather excessive time of doing a reboot each time I have to move the machine. I think I have the latest BIOS (I think it is 1.40 needed for WIN95), and that didn't seem to help. Also, hybernate seems to do a suspend, so if suspend works, hybernate generally will too, except for those devices that can't reliably be powered down (PCMCIA cards that don't quite plug and play). Thanks Mike Redmond ----------------