Socket 7 desktop mainboard and ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR)
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:16 am
Has any vendor ever produced a Socket 7 mainboard with ACPI S3 State (Suspend to RAM or STR) support?
I have read VIA Technologies and SiS chipset data books in the past, and they both claim to support STR in their chipsets, but I have never seen a Socket 7 desktop mainboard to actually support STR.
In fact, very few Socket 370 mainboards support STR for that matter.
I have a few of them (i.e., Intel 815E chipset mainboards from Intel and an ASUS Intel 810E chipset mainboard made specifically for a HP Pavilion desktop PC), and I consider them to be quite rare.
It appears that around the time of Windows XP, Microsoft "demanded" mainboard manufacturers to implement STR, but the last Socket 7 boards came out around 1999/2000 when no one supported STR.
Does anyone have a theory about this issue?
I use STR everyday to save money on my power bill and reduce the noise in my room, so I really care about this feature.
computerpartshunter
I have read VIA Technologies and SiS chipset data books in the past, and they both claim to support STR in their chipsets, but I have never seen a Socket 7 desktop mainboard to actually support STR.
In fact, very few Socket 370 mainboards support STR for that matter.
I have a few of them (i.e., Intel 815E chipset mainboards from Intel and an ASUS Intel 810E chipset mainboard made specifically for a HP Pavilion desktop PC), and I consider them to be quite rare.
It appears that around the time of Windows XP, Microsoft "demanded" mainboard manufacturers to implement STR, but the last Socket 7 boards came out around 1999/2000 when no one supported STR.
Does anyone have a theory about this issue?
I use STR everyday to save money on my power bill and reduce the noise in my room, so I really care about this feature.
computerpartshunter