Hibernate problem

[Marc]

Sometimes when I click hibernate i get a little info bubble by the task
bar that says I have insufficient system resources to use hibernate. The
hibernate option then goes until i reboot.

I have plenty of system resources however (1.25gb RAM, with much of it
free), so what might be wrong?

 

[R. McCarty]

See the following MS KB article that addresses this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330909

 

[Marc]

See the following MS KB article that addresses this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330909

Many thanks for that links. I already have SP 2. The problem has been
since I installed a graphics card which means i no longer have 64mb of
RAM devoted to the onboard graphics card.

 

[R. McCarty]

It was a starting point for debugging. Before you upgraded the Video
card, did you uninstall the driver for the on-board GPU ? Also, have
you downloaded/installed the latest driver for the new card ? I would
check for Display Adapter "Phantoms" in Device Manager. You'll
need to add a System Environment Variable-
DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices = 1
Then open Device Manager, Click View, tic/check "Show Hidden
Devices". Expand the Display Adapter category and see if the previous
adapter is listed, but shown in diminished tone. If so, Uninstall the device
and reboot. Would probably also help to know which Brand/Model
card you've added to the machine. Finally, I'd probably get or redefine
the monitor driver/definition file to something more exacting than the
usual "Plug-&-Play" that Windows uses.

 

[Marc]

It was a starting point for debugging. Before you upgraded the Video
card, did you uninstall the driver for the on-board GPU ? Also, have
you downloaded/installed the latest driver for the new card ? I would
check for Display Adapter "Phantoms" in Device Manager. You'll
need to add a System Environment Variable-
DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices = 1
Then open Device Manager, Click View, tic/check "Show Hidden
Devices". Expand the Display Adapter category and see if the previous
adapter is listed, but shown in diminished tone. If so, Uninstall the device
and reboot.

Nothing there, I think my BIOS disables it automatically.

Would probably also help to know which Brand/Model
card you've added to the machine. Finally, I'd probably get or redefine
the monitor driver/definition file to something more exacting than the
usual "Plug-&-Play" that Windows uses.

NVIDIA GeForce 6200. I used the drivers that came on the CD. When
installing windows checked for updates but didn't find anything.

 

[R. McCarty]

Don't use Windows Update for Device Drivers. Use the following
nVidia Menu to obtain the latest drivers for your card.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
The latest ForeWare driver is version 81.85

 

[Guest]

my problem is a very slow boot up with way to many task in the Task menu.
But wht programs can one remove without a problem elsewhere.

 

[Plato]

my problem is a very slow boot up with way to many task in the Task menu.
But wht programs can one remove without a problem elsewhere.

See all the icons in the tray? Run each. Tell them NOT to start when
Windows starts.

 

[Rock]

my problem is a very slow boot up with way to many task in the Task menu.
But wht programs can one remove without a problem elsewhere.

Research each of the items that start when the computer boots with these
resources:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
www.google.com

Once you know what each is/does you can make an informed decision on
whether you want it to start at boot up. To stop a program from starting:

First step should be to check in the options for the program you don't
want to start and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at
startup. The next step is to remove any entries you don't want from the
two startup folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok


Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys
in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe