I have a Dell 300m that has been working flawlessly. I typically shut it down by hibernating, which takes about 30 sec to shut down. Suddenly, a few days ago, hibernation takes over 10 min to complete the save-to-disk activity. I can see the HD light blinking continuously during that time. Even though it takes this extraordinarily long time, coming out of hibernation still works normally and doesn't take any longer than it used to. I have a full complement of firewall and virus SW and am running XP Pro SP2. No SW has been installed recently and nothing else appears to have changed about the computer. I tried doing a Windows Restore back to last week, and while the Restore process completed successfully, the hibernation still takes 10 min. Any clue as to what might be going on? I also tried disabling the hibernation function, rebooting, and re-enabling hibernation, also to no effect. Web searching indicates many people having problems with coming OUT of hibernation - I can't find anyone else having a problem going INTO hibernation.
Hibernation suddenly takes 10 min to shutdown
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suprasteve
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there's a few things you could do to help, one allocate more space to the cache used for hibernation, two restart your computer more often, hibernation keeps filling up the ram with whatever was on there last time you let it go into hibernation so it's almost as bad as not ever shutting your computer down. A little bit of maintenance is good for a computer. See if anybody else has something to add, other than that, I'd contact Dell if those things don't help