Hibernation has been recently stalling with window blank and power

[Guest]

I added a program that I can't remove from the system because I need it for
daily work. It seems that there is not enough time in the settings of
hibernation shutdown to allow for a full hibernation, now, however. It makes
it through everything but the power down stage at which point the screen
stays blue/blank and the power light on my laptop remains on but no fan is
running. In order to get a response, the power button has to be held down
first to manually shut down and then a full restart must occur by powering
back up. If I minimize all programs and make sure that Microsoft streets and
trips is not running and my USB lan card is disconnected it hibernates
normally. I believe I heard in the past that you can change a setting to
give it more time to do it's thing. Am I correct, anyone? Any feedback
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, TW

 

[db]

not really sure
what you are trying
to explain.

if you want more time
before hibernating is
initiated then you can
adjust the "alarms" inside
the powercontrol panel
hibernation tab.

also, you mentioned
something about
pressing shift over
the standby option
to get hibernation.

but you can replace
the standby with
hibernation if you
use it more often.

- db
I added a program that I can't remove from the system because I need it for
daily work. It seems that there is not enough time in the settings of
hibernation shutdown to allow for a full hibernation, now, however. It makes
it through everything but the power down stage at which point the screen
stays blue/blank and the power light on my laptop remains on but no fan is
running. In order to get a response, the power button has to be held down
first to manually shut down and then a full restart must occur by powering
back up. If I minimize all programs and make sure that Microsoft streets and
trips is not running and my USB lan card is disconnected it hibernates
normally. I believe I heard in the past that you can change a setting to
give it more time to do it's thing. Am I correct, anyone? Any feedback
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, TW

 

[Guest]

not really sure
what you are trying
to explain.

if you want more time
before hibernating is
initiated then you can
adjust the "alarms" inside
the powercontrol panel
hibernation tab.

I'm talking about the hibernation process. Please read the post carefully
if you are going to answer. I stated that the hibernation process does not
complete but gets hung up. I know my alarms and where they are and how to
set my computer to initiate standby or hibernate or shut down. The point is
that I have heard there is some sort of command line that can increase the
time needed to complete the hibernation process. Or maybe there is something
else that I can do from some XP genius out there. My computer is presently
haniging up before completing the hibernation process. The end result is
that the computer begins to hibernate. The screen changes and initiates
saving the changes. Then it acts as if it completed the saving process and
the screen goes blue/black blank. The screen does not power off. However,
my power lights also stay on and I have to force the power off option by
pressing and holding the power button for a few seconds which successfully
shuts off the computer and the screen (thus saving my battery) but requires a
restart for the next session. The restart is as if I powered off the
computer and in my case takes nearly ten minutes to start up. This is the
beauty of using hibernation - it saves your settings and session with minimal
amount of time to shut down and recover when you want to work again. So,
AGAIN, I'm looking to see if anyone out there can tell me, maybe some
thoughts on hung up processes of hibernation. A solution would be wonderful.