Help! PC freezes when preparing to Hibernate

[Katmandu]

Whenever I hit the Hibernate button, my PC freezes on the Spash Screen that
says....."preparing to Hibernate".

What could be keeping it from going further ??

 

[JS]

Do you see any disk activity?

JS

 

[JS]

Also see the following:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=preparing+to+Hibernate&btnG=Search

JS

 

[Guest]

Thier are a few hotfixes for that,1.kb914028 2.kb909095 & maybe,kb889673

 

[seangriffin]

To anyone else still tearing out their hair trying to solve this (as was I), here is the solution. The problem is most likely rootkit malware attack.

To check and remove rootkits, download and run Kaspersky's TDSSKiller:

http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip

I ran this. It found one infection, quaranteened the file, rebooted my computer, and hibernation now works.

After countless attempts to fix hibernation, this was the only solution that worked for me.