PC won't come out of hiberation

[Kent McPherson]

I have an eMachines T1742 running XP Home with SP1. It appears to go into
hibernation even though I've got hibernation disabled and won't come out. I
have the power saving set to Always On. I don't know how long it takes but
at some point several hours after the PC has been rebooted, the screen goes
into power saver mode and no matter what I do, the PC won't revive. I have
to power the PC down and reboot to get it back. Any suggestions (besides
dumping the PC)???

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

It's a bit off the wall, but is it possible there is some 'battery' or ups setting on there?

 

[Kent McPherson]

Nope, no battery or UPS setting. Everything is set to Always On. I had it
running last night and this morning, it was in this psuedo hibernating state
again.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

That's really a tough one to guess. 'Restart on error', leading to a shutdown? Some BIOS corruption? (ACPI, or PnP error)

Disable automatic restart on system failure (on SP2): Press F8 on restart, and see the menu item to disable auto restart. Restart,
and when the STOP message appears, record information needed for further troubleshooting.

 

[Kent McPherson]

I'm running SP1 with the latest critical fixes. Is there similar
instructions for SP1?

That's really a tough one to guess. 'Restart on error', leading to a

shutdown? Some BIOS corruption? (ACPI, or PnP error)

Disable automatic restart on system failure (on SP2): Press F8 on restart,

and see the menu item to disable auto restart. Restart,

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Press WinKey-Break,(or start/run 'sysdm.cpl'), click Advanced Tab, Start Up... area, Settings button, Remove check from
"Automatically Restart" On the next reboot, you will be able to read the error that caused the restart.

 

[Kent McPherson]

So here's another data point. I took out the Automatically Restart per the
instructions below.

The PC actually stopped while my wife was working on it last night. She was
using a program and the PC just stopped. The screen went black and into
power saver mode. Nothing was on the screen at all. We had to press and
hold the power button for 8 seconds to completely power it off and then turn
it back on. It comes up ok but this is nuts. Is there any log I can look
into to see what happened?

Press WinKey-Break,(or start/run 'sysdm.cpl'), click Advanced Tab, Start

Up... area, Settings button, Remove check from

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

start/run, type EVENTVWR

There might be an app log of some event that will show you what is doing the freeze. I would expect an event from some device driver
(video card, nic, monitor, etc)