hibernation can't be enabled

[Rick]

The hibernation feature is grayed out when the
start/shutdown link opens. Its also grayed out using the
task manager links. How can I reenable this feature?

 

[Bob Harris]

Among other things, hibernation will only work if all hardware supports
hibernation. In particular, the video drivers must support this feature. I
needed to load more recent drivers for my NVIDIA card before hibernation
would work.

Additionally, you have to turn on the hibernation option using the hibernate
tab of the power options properties window, accessed from the display
properties screen savers window. Then, you need to use the power schemes
tab of the power options properties window to set a finite time delay before
hibernation.

Unfortunately, even if you get hibernation to work, you may wish that you
had not. I finally turned it off, since about one out of ten times when the
PC woke from hibernation it immediately dies with a blue screen. This might
be specific to my PC and peripherals, but I have not had a single blue
screen since I turned off hibernation.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Rick,

I take it it used to work?

Loss of this feature is usually caused by the installation of a
non-compliant driver, you need to rollback that driver to the previous
version. Think about any driver updates you have done, or about any new
drivers installed to support hardware you have added since it stopped
working. In the former case, you may need to do a rollback from the
properties of the hardware in device manager. For the latter, you may need
to check with the manufacturer for an updated version (the one in the box is
usually several versions old).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone