Cannot enable hibernation in Win XP Pro

[Guest]

I just reinstalled XP after changing out my motherboard. On the hibernate tab
I cannot check to box as it will answer: "Power Policy Manager unable to
reserve the hibernate file" "The process cannot access the file because it is
being used by another process"

I have tried disabling every process running with no success. I cannot find
what process is using the file. I also do not know what file it is talking
about.

Any help would be great.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Have you installed the drivers from the motherboard CD yet? The loss or lack
of hibernate is usually because not all system devices have a supporting
driver in place.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Yes, all drivers installed. I have since completely reinstalled Windows again
and this time hibernate option is available. I still don't know what caused
this to disappear. Anyway, thanks for your help.