Hibernation gone bad on Dell Laptop.

[Dragon]

Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that used to perform hibernation properly. I
think I installed some Windows Updates (Current with SP2 and all updates)
and now hibernation has stopped working. When I tell it to hibernate, it
works fine and shuts down like it is suppose to, but when it wakes up, it
shows the white bar going across the screen all the way to right and that's
it. Nothing after that, no errors or messages. I have to power it down and
bring it up. When coming up it doesn't say anything about the fact that it
was ever hibernated. It simply comes right up like normal boot. Here is what
I have tried so far.

Tried Hibernating while on LAN and without it being on LAN
Tried Disabling Hibernating and then making sure the hibernation file is
gone. No difference
Performed Chkdsk to make sure there are no disk errors

I am aware of the sleep mode but I would prefer if I could use hibernation.

Thank you.

 

[Dragon]

Help, anyone??????

 

[the gannit]

do you have office installed because i had the problem and is was
caused by having outlook open when going into hibernation

 

[Dragon]

I do have office 2003 installed but I do not use outlook on it as I user
Outlook Web Access.

Any other ideas?

 

[the gannit]

what model dell laptop is it. How much hdd space have you got free also
try it without office open

 

[Dragon]

It is Inspiron 5100 with 1GB RAM. I have about 8GB free disk space. I have
tried it even no applications open, still the same.

 

[the gannit]

try this link
ttp://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/f24d0d15a666cff9/590d525ec84cddc8?hl=en#590d525ec84cddc8

 

[Dragon]

Thank you for the link but I do not think that is the issue with mine as I
have less than 2GB RAM and it used to work with the same hardware but now it
does not. Nothing has changed (as far as i am aware of) other than that I
installed updates and SP2.