Windows XP Hibernate

[wdc]

I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 running Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP3.
It recently has started hanging up when turned on after hibernating. I have
to shut it down and restart the computer. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot
this problem or what may be causing it?

Thanks.

 

[FrankV]

You have a hidden system file c:\hiberfil.sys recreated each time you
hibernate. I don't know if it would help but I would delete this file and
see what happens at the nest restart.

Frank

 

[Justin Thyme]

You have a hidden system file c:\hiberfil.sys recreated each time you
hibernate. I don't know if it would help but I would delete this file and
see what happens at the nest restart.

Frank

WDC, Frank is correct. Hibernate has never worked correctly on this
computer which is about three years old, so I gave up trying it, using
Standby instead. My computer would seem to hibernate correctly but I could
not get it to resume again correctly.

The hiberfil.sys file is very large, on my computer it is presently greater
than 3 GB. I have never tried simply clearing it out.

Ken Bland

 

[Ian D]

WDC, Frank is correct. Hibernate has never worked correctly on this
computer which is about three years old, so I gave up trying it, using
Standby instead. My computer would seem to hibernate correctly but I could
not get it to resume again correctly.

The hiberfil.sys file is very large, on my computer it is presently
greater than 3 GB. I have never tried simply clearing it out.

Ken Bland

The hiberfil.sys file is set to the size of available system RAM. It's
a container to hold the system state and active RAM contents at
hibernation. When you hibernate, usually only a portion of it is used.
The file may have become corrupted, so the best solution, as
suggested by FrankV, is to delete the file. To do this, you disable
hibernation, delete the file and reboot. Then re-enable hibernation,
and reboot. A new hiberfil.sys will be recreated. It's somewhat
similar to the process of creating a new pagefile.

 

[wdc]

Thank you for the prompt assistance. I followed your suggestions and it
seems to have worked.