frozen in hibernate

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just recently my PC freezes when it hibernates.
the monitor light goes yellow and the screen goes blank.
when i press a key the monitir light goes green and the screen
lightens up i little bit, but stays blank.
it won't un-hibernate.
if i shut press the on/off button on the PC i can hear the windows
shut-off music.
i have cleared up up some drive space, defragged, and ran chkdsk.
no fix.
any clues?

tia,
mcnewsxp
 
mcnews said:
just recently my PC freezes when it hibernates.
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"How to troubleshoot hibernation and standby issues in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907477/en-us

"Hibernation problem on computers with 1 GB of RAM"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330909/en-us

"Computer stops responding after you put it into hibernation, and then
resume it from hibernation many times"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822827/en-us

"The computer does not resume from hibernation or does not Wake-on-LAN
from standby" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815304/en-us

"A hardware DEP-enabled computer may stop responding when you resume from
standby or from hibernation in Windows XP Service Pack 2"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889673/en-us
 
First, it is NOT hibernating. In hibernation mode all power is shut off and
to resume from Hibernation you
press the power on button. You seem to be in sleep mode where the monitor
shuts down to save power but system
power stays on. Do you have keyboard and mouse configured to bring out of
sleep mode?
 
First, it is NOT hibernating. In hibernation mode all power is shut off and
to resume from Hibernation you
press the power on button. You seem to be in sleep mode where the monitor
shuts down to save power but system
power stays on. Do you have keyboard and mouse configured to bring out of
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yes, it has been doing that for years.
this problem started about a week ago.
as i said, when i press a key (or move the mouse) the monitor light
goes from yellow to green.
the hard drive light flashes.
 
First, it is NOT hibernating. In hibernation mode all power is shut off and
to resume from Hibernation you
press the power on button. You seem to be in sleep mode where the monitor
shuts down to save power but system
power stays on. Do you have keyboard and mouse configured to bring out of
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microsoft seems to think hibernate and sleep ar synonymous
 
My unfortunate misuse of words. Sleep and hibernate are synonymous. I should
have said 'Standby'
Standby keeps power on and shuts of the monitor and HD.
Have you checked your mouse and keyboard settings? BIOS settings?
In power options do you have hibernate tab?
 
My unfortunate misuse of words. Sleep and hibernate are synonymous. I should
have said 'Standby'
Standby keeps power on and shuts of the monitor and HD.
Have you checked your mouse and keyboard settings? BIOS settings?
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i have the bibernate tab.
i unchecked it.
so far ok....
what mouse and keyboard settings?
 
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