aspire 3610: wiped harddrive, installed XP Pro, no power management

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned in the title, I bought a new aspire 3610 couple of weeks ago and just today I wiped off the HD and installed my copy of XP Pro. I was surprised when I saw that I am not able to put my computer in hibernate/standby mode. If I go Start>TurnOff, the window that shows up has the standby option unavailable. In Help and Support it said that it means that my hardware is not able to hibernate. I was even more surprised when I went to BIOS and didn't find either ACPI or APM power management feature.

Before starting this installation I was able to hibernate computer without any problems. What gives?

Thanks for your help.
Frankie

 

Right click your desktop > Properties > Screensaver > Power > Hibernate

Enable it.

 

Thanks for reply. There is no option "hibernate" when I do that.

 

Hmm.. that's odd.

Try messing with the Advanced Options under the Power management and make it so pressing the power button puts the notebook into hibernation and closing the lid into stand by.

[Edit]

Also try installing Acer's power management software.
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/fo...m/us&siteid=7293&areaid=7&formid=3394#results

 

That's the first thing I tried. There is not much to mess with. The Power Buttons menu 'When I close the lid of my protable computer' has only one option : Do nothing. I am really buffled herre: stand by worked flawlessly before this reinstallation, which I am already regreting.

Edit: I tried installing acer's power management software too. It didn't work, I knew it wouldn't. That software is just a frontend for the power management, if I am not mistaken.

 

admlam,

can you do me a favor and take a look in your bios. I am assuming you have the same computer as I do. Just see if there is a enable ACPI or enable APM option. I don't have it in my bios.