SATA as a secondary hard drive

[sj1187534]

I have a XP MCE PC with a 160Gb hard drive on it. I recently bought a new 500Gb SATA drive and installed on this PC. Everything is fine. I was able to move all my media files into this new drive. I was able to browse through the folder and everything.

The problem: Everytime my PC goes to standby mode and comes out of it, I dont see this new drive in the explorer. I can see it in the device manager though. I have to restart the machine to be able to see it again.

Any thoughts on this? Do I have the jumper settings on the old IDE to accomodate this new one? Am I missing something? Is there any BIOS setting that I need to modify?

Thanks.

 

[donkey42]

I have a XP MCE PC with a 160Gb hard drive on it. I recently bought a new 500Gb SATA drive and installed on this PC.

Do I have the jumper settings on the old IDE to accomodate this new one?

no, you don't need to change anything on IDE to accommodate SATA

Is there any BIOS setting that I need to modify?

if you can see the drive, probably not

I can see it in the device manager

does it have a yellow explanation mark over it in device manager ?

 

[sj1187534]

I figured out the problem. There was a setting in the BIOS that I had to change.

Machine - emachines T5216
Motherboard : Mickelson Trail Motherboard

BIOS --> Power --> some CPI suspend state --> The default setting is S3 state. Change this to S1 state.

Thanks.

 

[donkey42]

I figured out the problem. There was a setting in the BIOS that I had to change.

sorry, i was wrong, sorry

 

[Karanislove]

S3.......... > S1
:confused: What is it?? :ohah:

 

[donkey42]

BIOS --> Power --> some CPI suspend state --> The default setting is S3 state. Change this to S1 state.

i think he means ACPI

What is it?

Wait State = 1 or 3[ot]i don't know how altering how the system suspends / enters standby mode, helps to rectify this problem, but if it works, it works[/ot]

 

[sj1187534]

I dont know what ACPI or the states 1 and 3 mean. It just worked for me.
donkey42, can you share what these states mean?

 

[donkey42]

donkey, can you share what these states mean?

off the top of my head i think[ot]i dont know which way round[/ot]but lets say State 1 = system is fully powered up mode, and State 3 = system in full standby mode[ot]i think, but it could be the reverse[/ot]Edit: or varying stages between

Edit:

WikiAdvanced Configuration and Power Interface

Source you'll probably find it on Wiki

 

[Karanislove]

These states are implementation-dependent, but P0 is always the highest-performance state, with P1 to Pn being successively lower-performance states, up to an implementation-specific limit of n no greater than 16.

P-states are called SpeedStep in Intel processors, PowerNow! or Cool'n'Quiet in AMD processors and PowerSaver in VIA processors.

Is this a answer?? :unsure:

 

[donkey42]

Is this a answer?? :unsure:

no

Wiki


Global states

The ACPI specification defines the following seven states (so-called global states) an ACPI-compliant computer system can be in:

• G0 (S0) Working is the normal working state of the computer, meaning that the operating system and whatever applications, run. The CPU(s) execute instructions. Within this state (i.e., without entering G1 Sleeping), it is possible for CPU(s) and devices like hard drives, DVD drives, etc. to be repeatedly put into and come back from low-energy states, called C0–Cn and D0–D3. (Laptops, for example, routinely power down all currently unused devices when running on battery; some computers do this to reduce noise.)
• G1 Sleeping subdivides into the four states S1 through S4. The time needed to bring the system from here back into G0 Working (wake-latency time) is shortest for S1, short for S2 and S3, and not so short for S4.
  • S1 is the most power-hungry of sleep modes. All processor caches are flushed, and the CPU(s) stop executing instructions. Power to the CPU(s) and RAM is maintained; devices that do not indicate they must remain on may be powered down. Some newer machines do not support S1; older machines are more likely to support S1 than S3.
  • S2 is a deeper sleep state than S1, where the CPU is powered off; however, it is not commonly implemented.
  • S3 is called Standby in Windows, Sleep in Mac OS X, and sometimes also Suspend to RAM (STR), although the ACPI specification mentions only the terms S3 and Sleep. In this state, main memory (RAM) is still powered, although it is almost the only component that is. Since the state of the operating system and all applications, open documents, etc. lies all in main memory, the user can resume work exactly where he/she left off—the main memory content when the computer comes back from S3 is the same as when it was put into S3. (The specification mentions that S3 is rather similar to S2, only that some more components are powered down in S3.) S3 has two advantages over S4; the computer resumes in about the time it takes the monitor to come on, secondly if any running applications (open documents, etc) have private information in them, this will not be written to the disk. Desktop users using this state may want to disable disk caching (also called disk buffer) so that, in the event of a power failure, the system disk is less likely to become corrupted due to data in the cache not being written to the disk.
  • S4 -- Main article: Hibernate (OS feature). S4 is called Hibernation in Windows, Safe Sleep in Mac OS X, and sometimes also Suspend to disk, although the ACPI specification mentions only the term S4. In this state, all content of main memory is saved to a hard drive, preserving the state of the operating system, all applications, open documents etc. That means that after coming back from S4, the user can resume work where it was left off in much the same way as with S3. The difference between S4 and S3, apart from the added time of moving the main memory content to disk and back, is that a power loss of a computer in S3 makes it lose all data in main memory, including all unsaved documents, while a computer in S4 is unaffected. S4 is quite different from the other S states and actually resembles G2 Soft Off and G3 Mechanical Off more than it resembles S1–S3.

Edit:it the state the system is in (e.g. powered up status)