Unable to hibernate win xp (857 bios 1.8)

i flashed new 1.8 bios (over 1.6) because i wanted to test raid 1 on ich5. went all fine but now i cant hibernate winxp anymore. xp freezes with message box 'preparing to hibernate'. this was an issue up to bios 1.4 or so with 1 gb ram but was runing fine with 1.5 and 1.6..
any ideas?

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[SOLVED] Unable to hibernate (and garbles the screen when it fails)

Hello, I'm unable to hibernate (but I can suspend fine).
When I run
sudo systemctl hibernate
it will run the command, turn off the screen and come back all garbled (like static from a tv), with the computer still on but the processes stopped.
I followed all the instructions on the hibernation wiki.
I rebuilt grub adding the swap partition and added the resume hook to mkinitcpio.
My swap partition is 23.4GB and my ram is 16gb, so that shouldn't be an issue.
I've had a look at my xorg logs, run systemctl --all | grep errors with nothing, and nothing came up from the system journal ( I forgot the command as it was deleted from my bash history).
What other logs can I provide to help determine the error?
Thanks
edit:
It's been solved now, I believe an update to the kernel has done the trick. I can suspend to disk fine now.
For those googling, I'm running 3.11.6-1-ARCH
Last edited by lugubrious (2013-11-13 00:21:27)

Still nothing unfortunately.
I masked alsa90 under /etc/pm/sleep.d to be -x. That was the only file out of the pm directories. (I only have it for KDE too).
I've also double checked my grub config to add resume, and mkinitcpio which has the resume hook.
This is the relevant part of journalctl, this is when I run sudo systemlctl hibernate
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 sudo[2228]: lugub : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/lugub ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl hibernate
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 sudo[2228]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit xscreensaver.service, ignoring: Unit xscreensaver.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Sleep.
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Hibernate...
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Hibernation mode set to 'platform'
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd-sleep[2231]: Suspending system...
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 slim[340]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00092000-0x000fffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xcfda0000-0xffffffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xc4000000-0xc7ffffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Basic memory bitmaps created
The error with xscreensaver service comes up when I sleep, (and run xscreensaver lock && suspend), but I can sleep fine with it.
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit xscreensaver.service, ignoring: Unit xscreensaver.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Sleep.
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Suspend...
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 systemd-sleep[559]: Suspending system...
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 kernel: PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
Oct 16 15:57:07 arch64 kernel: PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
Oct 16 15:57:08 arch64 slim[341]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 kernel: Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd[1]: Time has been changed
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd[446]: Time has been changed
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd-sleep[559]: System resumed.
When I ran pm-hibernate as suggested above it didn't suspend either, but this came up on journalctl
Oct 16 14:37:03 arch64 kernel: PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a.
Oct 16 14:37:03 arch64 kernel: PM: Cannot get swap writer
Any ideas? Thanks
Last edited by lugubrious (2013-10-16 03:28:19)

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since two days I'm trying to find a key to enter BIOS. when computer starts up, it doesn't say anything on the booting screen.
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Hi!
I've tried many ways, and I can't get the hibernate option out of my U410
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Did you install energy management software and the vga drivers properly? Please do so!! See if it hibernates after that.
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Oh! I guess I'm confused with the language on the download site when it says win8 vs non-win8 for OS selection. Just so I'm clear for future reference, if a newer BIOS revision becomes available for this notebook, even while running Windows 7, I should upgrade (if absolutely necessary) to the win8 version available on the MSI download site? Is this even possible while running Windows 7? It's just weird to me that they're designating a hardware revision based on pre-installed OS when some users will ultimately downgrade to Windows 7 and not understand this.
My next question, since the Windows 7 1762EMS1.414 EC flash fixed my non-functioning hot keys, should I re-flash to the Windows 8 EC (currently 1762EMS1504) and will this break hot key functionality again? At this point, I'm concerned about the E1762IMS.50R BIOS not playing nice with the 1762EMS1.414 EC.
Thanks!
You just got your answer, just install the right BIOS + EC (for your OS) and your problems are solved. If you want to install windows 7 on your laptop, make sure you install BIOS and EC for non-win8 from msi download section (for your laptop model), and check before if you have RAID or non-RAID/with Backlight Keyboard or non-Backlight Keyboard (because you will find also these options in the download section)
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT70-0NC.html
http://www.msi.com/html/pdf/How_to_make_a_bootable_flash_disk_and_to_flash_EC.pdf

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Change the already installed Win 8.1 BIOS mode from Legacy to UEFI

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