S3/STR SUSPEND/RESUME -- What works, what doesn't?

Question

So far I keep getting crashes when I resume the system from S3/STR standby
in W2K SP4.
 I've got a MS-6702 K8T NEO-FSR, 1GB DDR SDRAM, and an
ATI Radeon PRO 128 with the beta Catalyst 4.9 drivers.  I'm using 1.92B beta BIOS.
I get a "blue screen of death" crash STOP 0x0000000A in HAL.DLL every time
I resume the system after  selecting Shutdown -> Standby.
I've seen some other threads with some people having no success in getting
S3/STR mode working, and others claiming that they have gotten it working
in Win XP SP2, though I don't have that yet.
I'll try it in Fedora Core 3 Test 1 LINUX soon and see if that crashes also.
But in the mean time, what's been everyone else's result?
What OS and BIOS / OS power control settings do you use if you have it working?
I've noticed another problem where "WAKE ON USB" even when that's selected
in the BIOS doesn't work since my USB bus including my
hub and keyboard / mouse deactivates when I choose SUSPEND,
and so wake up from it does not work at all...
Maybe this is a BIOS 1.92 bug or some more general problem, I can't say since
I can't use it much without risking corrupting my hard disc since the PC crashes
every time I resume it anyway (I had to plug in a PS/2 keyboard to resume it).
Thanks!

Answer 1

Just a little update on my successes with BIOS 1.92B / W2K SP4.
My apologies; some aforementioned problems were my error, not BIOS / W2K bugs.
There was a jumper option on the PRI/MASTER to select "MASTER" or "SLAVE"
so I had it jumpered for "MASTER".  As it turns out if one reads the details of the
jumpering, the proper way to set it as a MASTER when there's no slave present
is to remove the jumper entirely from any position.
So now that I've set it up as "MASTER, NO SLAVE PRESENT" with the non-jumpering --
* the BIOS POST auto-detection is just as quick every time for all drives
* W2K SP4's "Turn off hard disks" time out  and recovery now works  fine.
* S1/POS SUSPEND mode works fine.
...however....
* S3/STR SUSPEND mode, however, still crashes on resume with STOP 0x0000000A.
I made another oversight -- in W2K Device manager if one Right clicks on
a keyboard / mouse device, selects "POWER MANAGEMENT" tab there's a check
box to select "Permit this device to wake up the system from suspend", and it
was not set for either the USB keyboard or USB mouse, even though
"USB WAKE UP" *was* set in the BIOS settings -- so one has to set  USB WAKE UP
in multiple places (BIOS and Windows).  Once I did that I was able to wake
up from S1/POS and S3/STR with a USB keyboard keypress, though the S3/STR
wake up still causes a crash for me for some other reason.
I'll leave the previous messages unedited just in case other people with similar
problems might find the thread and thereby find the solutions as I now relate them.
Progress!   Thanks again all!