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Hibernation
This may sound like a Windows question, but I don't believe that it is. My old APC XS1000 UPS is supposed to be able to store data in a power loss, via a USB connection. This did seem to work at first, but a couple of years ago, it failed. When a new USB cable did not fix it, I assumed that the problem was internal to the APC, and simply forgot about it, and continued to use it just for it's battery backup function.
However, when I ran a diagnostic yesterday on the power settings, it said that only S1 and S3 were available, and that the firmware didn't support hibernation (hibernation is of course required for the APC to store data). I'm assuming that firmware is the motherboard's not the APCs, and that the problem's root cause is not in Windows either.
Yet the fact that it did once work, seems to imply that the motherboard did support hibernation previously. Since this initially failed, I have upgraded the motherboard, so if it were a defective board, that should have cured it, but it didn't.
Somehow, I can't seem to cross all of the dots...can someone else?
EDIT: BTW, the power settings in the BIOS are S1 only, S3 only and automatic, and it is now set at the latter.