Iinsufficient system resources exist to complete api

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Tilman J. Schultz

Hi there

I have a Laptop running XP SP2, and get this error message when I try and
hibernate my computer, or set it to standby.
Is there a fix for this?

I would really appreciate your help on this!


Tilman
 
Somewhere in the last couple of weeks, my Dell Latitude running XP SP2
started doing this intermittently when I end the day and try to hibernate.
Not sure if it's connected, but I loaded the latest windows update packages
the day they came out. This seems to have started along about then.

My latitude runs 512MB.

Upon hibernate, I get: Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the
API

Then, the hibernate option is disabled until after I have restarted my pc.
 
I get the: "lsass.exe - System error - Insufficient system resources exist to
complete the ATI". And am unable to go any further. Has anyone figured out
how to fix this problem?
Thanks
 
If you have SP2 installed then there is no fix, because the fix ought to be
included within SP2. The Hotfix for this problem, see KB330909 (Hibernation
problem on computers with 1 GB of RAM), can't be installed on machines with
SP2 allready installed.
It's mentioned that fragmentation could be a cause, but even after
defragmentation the problem persists.

We're delivered to the mercy of Microsoft for this one, eventhough it's a
pretty common bug, according to multiple fora and discusion groups.
 
My "fix" (laptop w/ 512MB memory and SP2 installed) was to delete quite a few
files (I was low on remaining space - less than 1GB freed up to over 3GB),
defrag, once, twice, three times, till all the file fragmentation AND free
space fragmentation was reduced, turned off hibernation and turned it back on
(to recreate hiberfil.sys), and haven't had the problem since (approximately
3 weeks).
 
The +1 gig issue appears to be memory space fragmentation. In your case
the drive was too crapped up to use.
 
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