Hibernating takes too long

[tom goc]

I'm running Windows XP SP2, on Centrino system 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD
(50% free). Recently (and suddenly), hibernation takes very long to
complete (3 -4 minutes). Before, it took < 1 min to hibernate.

What could be wrong? Please help - many thanks.

 

[Guest]

I believe you have to enable cache writing on your hard drive.

 

[tom goc]

How can I enable cache writing on my hard drive?

Tks

 

[Guest]

The way I do it is by going to My Computer -> Properties of C: (Right click
C: then select "Properties")-> click Hardware tab -> in the "All disks drive"
window look for your hard drive (which will be disk drive) click it and go to
properties down at the bottom. A new window will pop open, click on the
"Policies" tab and at the bottom you will see "Enable write caching on this
disk", click on the box and then OK

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

I'm running Windows XP SP2, on Centrino system 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD
(50% free). Recently (and suddenly), hibernation takes very long to
complete (3 -4 minutes). Before, it took < 1 min to hibernate.

What could be wrong? Please help - many thanks.

Might you have perhaps enabled the option to clear the pagefile on shutdown?

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314834

While this article shows how to set/clear it using a registry edit, a policy
can also be used (gpedit.msc) to change this value.

So what software did you install just before this problem appeared? If the
program doesn't respond when Windows is trying to shutdown (it first asks
applications to exit) then there will be a delay while Windows waits for
programs to comply until it eventually gives up and goes on with the
shutdown. I've seen some applications that open a Save dialog to save your
changes but the dialog was underneath the main window for the application so
it was hidden. Windows is waiting for the application to exit, the
application is waiting for your response, but you don't know anything is
waiting for you to responde.

Use Task Manager to kill off all the non-critical processes before
attempting a shutdown. If the shutdown becomes speedy then you know one of
those processes is farked.

 

[Guest]

Did it work?

 

[tom goc]

I've enabled cache writing on my hard drive, but still have the same problem
of hibernation taking long time.
Any other idea please? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Sorry, thats all I got. When I disabled cache writing on my hard drive,
hibernation took about 3-5 minutes. When I disabled it, it took about 20
seconds so I figured that would be the issue with your computer. Sorry I
wasn't able to help. Perhaps you should re-post see if anyone else has any
ideas.