Sleep Manager
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This program locates free contiguous disk spaces and allocates them for
storing BASE MEMORY, EXTENDED MEMORY, VIDEO MEMORY, and SM RAM. The disk
spaces found are reserved for system use (these spaces are no longer
accessible to the user). If the program cannot find the required disk
spaces, it shows the error message "Not enough disk space for allocation".
The disk may have enough free spaces but these free spaces exist as small
fragments. In this case, you can use tools such as SpeedDisk (Norton
Utilities) or Defrag (DOS 6.0 or above) to compact your free disk spaces.
Then run this program again.
Why does this program need to allocate disk spaces? When most of the
power is removed from the computer, (e.g. due to hibernation timer time-out)
the system swaps all memory images and saves all system status information
into these disk spaces. When you resume the computer from hibernation mode,
the computer will return to its previous state. If you do not run this
program to allocate the required disk spaces, hibernation will not work.
Once this program is executed, the computer will have the hibernation
feature and you do not need to run this program again except when the data
in CMOS is lost or corrupted.
This utility, Sleep Manager, is provided for both DOS-based and Windows-
based user. The command line syntax is described as below.
This program has four paramaters:
/HELP or /? : Shows a help screen briefly describing how to use the
parameters.
/CREATE=size : Allocates contiguous disk spaces for swapping memory image
(unit=KB) and saving system registers. We suggest that you allocate
the required disk spaces before you start using your PC.
You may specify the size of the disk space which you want
to allocate. If the size value you assigned is less than
the system memory size, the program will use the system
memory size instead. The default value is the system
memory size. The program will add additional disk spaces
for VIDEO MEMORY, SM RAM, and HEADER information whose
sizes are described in NOTICE below. If you want to resize
the allocated disk spaces, you have two options:
[1] First execute this program with /DELETE parameter
described below and then run this program with this
parameter again.
[2] Directly execute SleepMgr with this parameter to
resize the needed disk spaces automatically.
If the data in CMOS is lost or corrupted and you run this
program with /CREATE parameter, the program will auto-detect
and then allocate the disk spaces. The program will
reallocate the disk space based on the new size you specify.
/DELETE : Use this parameter to free the disk space allocated by the
program.
Notices:
1. The installation steps under MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 are as follows :
(1) Insert Sleep Manager installation diskette into diskette drive.
(2) At DOS prompt, execute this program.
(example: A:\install)
(3) Follow the screen instructions to complete the installation.
2. To install Sleep Manager in Win 95 or Win 98, you can run 'setup.exe'
from the diskette that contains Sleep Manager and follow the
instructions to complete the installation.
3. To uninstall Sleep Manager in MS-DOS or Windows 3.1, you need to
remark SleepMgr.exe in autoexec.bat.
4. To uninstall Sleep Manager in Windows 95 or Windows 98, you may run 'Add/Remove
Programs' applet in Control Panel. Select 'Sleep Manager for
Win 95 and Win 98' and remove it.
5. If you do not specify any paramater when you run Sleep Manager under
DOS prompt, and you have already generated reserved area in your
hard disk, this utility will prompt you current size of reserved
area.
6. Reserved areas are stored in the format of SYSTEM/HIDDEN/READ_ONLY
File in Hard Disk.
7. While using /CREATE parameter for creating reserved disk spaces, this
program will add more values, including VIDEO MEMORY, SM RAM and
HEADER information, to the size value that you assign. Default values
for these items are:
VIDEO MEMORY : 1024KB
SM RAM : 64KB
HEADER : 1 sector of the hard disk used
8. This utility runs under the DOS, Windows 3.1 DOS Prompt, and Win95 Win98 DOS
Prompt environment only.
(Example : OS/2 is not supported.)
9. If your hard disk with reserved area is switched to be used by
another machine, you can use SleepMgr command directly on that machine
to make BIOS aware of the entry point for the reserved area.
10.If on-board memory size is changed since the last time you executed
this program, please resize the allocated disk spaces by either one
of the following two methods.
a. Using '/C' parameter of this program to release all allocated
disk spaces and then reallocate the appropriate disk spaces
automatically.
b. Using '/D' parameter of this program to reclaim the allocated
disk spaces and then '/C' parameter to create the appropriate
disk spaces.
11.If you delete the allocated disk space and do not uninstall Sleep
Manager, Sleep Manager will still create the hibernation file when
a hibernation event occurs (e.g, hibernation timer, hibernation hot
key Fn+F7, etc.)
12.You should take care with DBLSPACE environment while using SleepMgr.
If you find that your compressed drive does not contain contiguous
memory for reserved area in Hard Disk, you can use the following
command to enlarge or reduce the size of a compressed drive.
DBLSPACE /SIZE[size1 | /RESERVE=size2] drive:
13.User should not create shortcut for Sleep Manager manually. Because
the uninstall process will not remove user's own create file or link.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.