Hibernation and Hard Drive Light.

[RonK]

I have just started using Hibernation and it works excellent except for 1
thing.
The hard drive light is on steady after booting up from Hibernation. There
is no hard drive activity and cpu idle is 97% while the light remains on
steady.
The hard drive light acts normal when not using hibernation.

XP SP2
Athlon 64 3500+
Antec 3700 case with 400 watt.

Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Ron

 

[EasyFeelings]

why are you using hibernate on a tower?

seems you'd be best to just turn it off.

 

[Guest]

why are you using hibernate on a tower?

seems you'd be best to just turn it off.

Hibernation works like a charm on desktops. Why not using it?
--PA

 

[wooly.bully]

Hibernation works like a charm on desktops. Why not using it?
--PA

Why I don't use the hibernate feature.

Hibernation creates a large file on my system, which the Norton Ghost
imaging program wants to backup. This (hiberfil.sys) is 1.5gig on my
C: and is a space hog on my DVD image file. So I chose to not use it.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Bully.

C:\hiberfil.sys should be just a few bytes bigger than your installed RAM.
It must be in the Root of your boot volume (where the \Windows folder
resides). There's not much point that I can see in backing it up - to DVD
or anywhere else.

When I first tried hibernate (and Standby, too) a couple of years ago, I
didn't like it because when it came out of hibernation (or Standby), my ADSL
was disconnected and the only way to get it back was to reboot - which
pretty much kills the whole point of hibernation. :>( Somewhere along the
line, though, some update (In WinXP? Or my modem driver? Or in my
settings?) fixed the problem and now hibernation (and Standby) works very
well on my home-built mid-tower desktop. (EPoX 8KDA3+, AMD Athlon 64 3200+,
1 GB RAM) ;<)

RC

 

[RonK]

Hi RC, I just found that disconnect problem with Hybernate. It does not
connect after bootup. So much for using it - Kinda liked it though.

Thanks

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Ron.

As I said, it works now. I don't know why. ;<}

Maybe SP2? Maybe my new NIC and external ADSL modem? (For my first 4 years
or so on ADSL, I used an internal PCI modem from 3Com - which was abandoned
by 3Com when they went out of the modem business.) Maybe my ISP did
something on their end? Or maybe I changed a setting without realizing that
it affected hibernation.

Whatever; I didn't knowingly fix the problem myself; I just tried
hibernation again a month or two ago and, voila! It worked. ;<)

Now I can hibernate, then press Ctrl+F1, which the same way I turn on my
computer each morning, and in less than a minute, I'm looking at the log-in
screen; I click my name and I'm right back where I was when I told it to
hibernate. And I'm online, too!

RC