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This is probably not the problem, but it may be difficult to get the notebook to suspend if there is a network card installed. You must "shut down" the network card from the PCMCIA utility before you suspend. If you aren't using a network card, just disregard this :-) Thanks Mike Redmond ------------- At 11:52 AM 11/8/96 -0700, Jim Melton wrote: >Gentlepeople, > >I have a ThinkPad 755C on which Windows95 was recently installed. Under >WIndows for Workgroups 3.11, the Suspend function worked just great. (I >never attempted Hibernate, due to lack of disk space to create the hibernation >file.) > >However, now that I have installed Windows95 on this system, it refuses to >enter either the Suspend or the Hibernate state. The symptoms are basically >that any attempt (e.g., closing the lid, using Fn-F4, using the Start menu's >Suspend button, using the PS2 utility's PS2 SUSpend command, or using the >Fuel Gauge's Suspend button) to suspend the laptop causes: the suspend LED >to start flashing; the hard disk LED to go on (solid) for 15 or 20 seconds; >the machine to emit a "beep"; the suspend LED to go off; the hard disk LED >to start flickering; the machine to emit a "blee-deep" sound; and then for >the machine to be alive and ready to continue working! > >IBM has been no help at all. I have ensured that the latest BIOS is installed >in the machine, that the latest ThinkPad utilities are installed, that I >have Advanced Power Management activated (and have tried both version 1.1 and >version 1.0), and anything else that I can think of. > >Does anybody watching this mailing list have a ThinkPad 755C running >Windows95 >that successfully suspends or hibernates? If so, I would be quite grateful >if they would please contact me and help me discover how to accomplish this >rather desirable goal. > >Many thanks, > Jim > > >