"Woody Brison" <woody.brison[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > I've been mulling over a little problem. I bought a
> Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with Vista on it. I put up
> with Vista as long as possible (until it completely
> folded up and there was no method of restoring it.)
> I got some XP install disks and used the license
> from a defunct laptop to install XP. All legal and
> agreed to by Microsoft.
>
> Now, laptop is running fine with a few minor XP issues.
> One is that there is no Hibernate function. Help sez:
>
> "To manually put your computer into hibernation...
>
> "Open Power Options in Control Panel.
>
> "Click the Hibernate tab, and then select the Enable
> hibernate support check box.
>
> "If the Hibernate tab is not available, your computer
> does not support this feature. ...
>
> "To put your computer into hibernation, you must have
> a computer whose components and BIOS support this
> option."
>
> I'm having trouble imagining what computer could not
> hibernate. Can anybody help me out here? What would
> be required other than a CPU, memory, a hard drive of
> sufficient size, and a keyboard and screen? What
> computer wouldn't have these? (Mine has these)
>
> Wood
After you installed Windows XP, did you go to Dell's web site and download
the latest XP drivers for the hardware components of your laptop? The
symptoms you describe would indicate that the correct drivers for your
display adapter might not be installed.
Go to the following web site and click on Drivers and Downloads.
www.support.dell.com
Select your model or enter the information from the Service Tag on the
bottom of your laptop. Make sure you select Windows XP in the operating
system box.
Here's what I came up with.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1525&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex=
While at Dell's site, you might want to download some of the other drivers
for your laptop. I'd start with the appropriate chipset driver as well as
those for your network adapters, wired and wireless.
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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