Windows hibernation problem?

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kongming92

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Hi everyone, first post here

Anyways, I am running Windows xp professional, SP2, and all of a sudden yesterday, my computer would not resume from hibernation properly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it will freeze after the "resuming windows" bar fills up, and sometimes it will resume, but the graphics will be glitchy. Does anyone have the same things happening to their computer?

I found what seemed to be the issue on Microsoft.com, then called them for the hotfix. It didn't work:mad:

Just for reference: here's my hardware:
Intel DP965LTCK
Intel C2D E6600
2x512 MB Kingston DDR2 533 MHz RAM
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 Pro (512 MB DDR)
Seagate 200 GB SATA HDD
Sony 18X DVD +/- RW
 
I've always had problems with this "feature". I would deactivate it all together in your Display properties. Click on the screensaver tab, click on Power, then click on the Hibernate tab and uncheck the box. Trust me, it is not very useful anyways.

Spyder
 
How very odd: I just started having hibernation resumption problems today! Not good... but then, I had a LOT of data that was stored to disk.
Tom
 
I've had that with my laptop somewhat except I've set it so it "does nothing" when I shut the lid, and sometimes when I pop it back open again it works (after over a day of not using it) and sometimes its still working but the screen wont turn back on. I dont know, I think my problem isnt windows. I'm getting vista in 2 hours though :). YAY
 
OvenMaster said:
How very odd: I just started having hibernation resumption problems today! Not good... but then, I had a LOT of data that was stored to disk.
Tom
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Is it possible that this is a result of a Windows Update?

Personally, I think it all started after I ran Win Live1Care Tune Up, which included getting all critical updates.
 
I don't think it's a WU problem... it seems the more that I've stored to disk, the longer it takes to resume. Sounds logical, but all I'd had stored was a browser page with a YouTube video. Weird. After rebooting and clearing RAM, it's been fine again. Go figure.
Tom
 
Have you recently upgraded or increased your RAM? There are known problems with XP Hibernation and computers that have more than 1GB of RAM. There is a hotfix for it, but you have to email Microsoft to get it (free, but you use up one of your 2 support contact chances). It is supposed to be included in the official SP3 for XP, but that is not due to come out for a few months still.

However, I believe the problem there is mainly that the PC won't go into hibernation due to "insufficient resources", even though there should be sufficient resources.
 
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