Re: ThinkPad: 701 suspend problems

[epbrown@enteract.com (epbrown)]

On Sat, 2 Nov 1996 13:43:32 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

"On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Andrew Richards wrote:
"
"> I too have occasional problems, but of a slightly different nature:
"> My machine sometimes doesn't wake up from a suspend, so I
"> need to turn it off and on to bring Win 95 back. I think this is
"> probably related to PCMCIA cards: I have the feeling that
"> this problem may occur in sessions during which I've
"> removed or changed a card (I do ask Win 95 to 'Stop' the
	I haven't had this problem since I did 2 things:
	I upgraded to revision O of the BIOS.
	I set "safe suspend" for manual and auto.  What this does is write your
data to disk every time you suspend, just like going into hibernate mode.
That way if, for some reason, the system doesn't "wake up," hitting the
power switch returns you to your previous screen anyway.  It's paradoxical
that, since taking this precaution, suspend doesn't fail.
	epbrown
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