15 Problems That Your Plague Your PC
And How to Solve Them


--by Karen Kenworthy, Contributing Editor, Fred Langa, Senior 
Consulting Editor, John Woram, Consulting Editor, Serdar 
Yegulalp, Technology Editor


* Software *

** Problem No 6: Windows won't wake up. **

Solution:
Many consider this Win98's No. 1 shortcoming: After going into 
Suspend or Hibernation mode, the OS wakes up slowly or not at 
all. The problem results from subtle conflicts between Win98 
and vendor-specific implementations of the Advanced 
Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). In theory, if the 
hardware and BIOS are both ACPI compliant, power-saving Suspend 
and Hibernation modes will work fine with Win98, which also is 
ACPI compliant. But theory and practice can be worlds apart.

Many systems now in use were designed for the older Advanced 
Power Management (APM) technology. They may require, at a 
minimum, a BIOS or driver update to work properly with the 
newer technology. Visit your hardware vendor's site to see 
what's required to make your system fully ACPI compliant.

And perhaps by the time you read this the Win98 Service Pack 
will have solved the OS parts of this problem: Run the Update 
Wizard (C:\WINDOWS\WUPDMGR.EXE) or visit 

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com 

to ensure your copy of Windows is up to date.

If none of this cures your PC's sleeping sickness, the only 
partial workaround is to turn off all BIOS-level 
power-management functions so Win98 can attempt to manage all 
power functions on its own.


 1998 Windows Magazine, April 1999, Page 112.