WinXP Pro Hibernation Problems

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Since I've been using WinXP Pro I can not get my computer to hibernate and I
have no idea why! MicroSoft simply says to turn hiberation off as per the
following;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815304&Product=winxp

Wondering if anyone out there has figgured out how to get hibernation to
work!
I've talked to other folks who have had no luck either. One guy changed out
his video board, installed SP2, new drivers and the works with no luck.

Any ideas out there on this?
Thanks!
 
Since I've been using WinXP Pro I can not get my computer to hibernate and I
have no idea why! MicroSoft simply says to turn hiberation off as per the
following;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815304&Product=winxp

Wondering if anyone out there has figgured out how to get hibernation to
work!
I've talked to other folks who have had no luck either. One guy changed out
his video board, installed SP2, new drivers and the works with no luck.

Any ideas out there on this?
Thanks!
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Control Panel, Power Options, Hibernate Tab, Enable Hibernation.

Note, Hibernation writes a file the same size as your Physical memory to the
boot partition. If you do not have enough free space on there for this you
cannot enable the hibernation.

HTH

Mal



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I seem to get into hibernation OK! Its when I try to unhibernate! Its starts
up and you can see things starting to happen. The reload starts up and you
can see the reload happening on the screen. Then everything just stops! The
screen is black and everything freezes up from what I can see! I can then
restart the computer and it starts. So I can go into hibernation I just
can't get back out!

I'm wondering if my video card can cause this kind of problem? I'm going to
try changing video cards just to see what happens.

 
I seem to get into hibernation OK! Its when I try to unhibernate! Its starts
up and you can see things starting to happen. The reload starts up and you
can see the reload happening on the screen. Then everything just stops! The
screen is black and everything freezes up from what I can see! I can then
restart the computer and it starts. So I can go into hibernation I just
can't get back out!

I'm wondering if my video card can cause this kind of problem? I'm going to
try changing video cards just to see what happens.
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A long shot after I had a Hibernation problem in the last couple of days......

After installing and replacing my old Promise ATA33 controller with a new ATA133
raid controller, I couldn't get XP to shut down into Hibernation mode. It
started, got to the WIN Logo screen and a few blue bars then it went back to
windows and gave an error.

To cut a long story short, my problem was that although the new Controller was
booting OK, I did not have it in slot 1 of the M/B (a master apparently). I
moved the card to slot 1 and hey presto, the PC hibernates quite nicely again.

Odd.

Mal


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After installing and replacing my old Promise ATA33 controller with a new ATA133
raid controller, I couldn't get XP to shut down into Hibernation mode. It
started, got to the WIN Logo screen and a few blue bars then it went back to
windows and gave an error.

To cut a long story short, my problem was that although the new Controller was
booting OK, I did not have it in slot 1 of the M/B (a master apparently). I
moved the card to slot 1 and hey presto, the PC hibernates quite nicely again.

Odd.

Mal


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Errata.

Only successful Hibernation and then back to not hibernating.

Obviously a controller (H/W or driver) issue because drive happily hibernates
when attached to my old controller.

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Finally figured out the hibernation problem. It seems that expensive Vid
boards often have to download some stuff to set themselves up when a restart
is attempted. Another words these cards forget when they are turned off.
Their settings are not stored in firmware but software. Hibernate is not set
up to remember to reload all this stuff because so many cards of all
different. So when you come out of hibernation with an expensive vid card
the thing doesn't know what to do with itself, and that's why they don't
work. Want to hibernate, get a cheap vid board!
 
Finally figured out the hibernation problem. It seems that expensive Vid
boards often have to download some stuff to set themselves up when a restart
is attempted. Another words these cards forget when they are turned off.
Their settings are not stored in firmware but software. Hibernate is not set
up to remember to reload all this stuff because so many cards of all
different. So when you come out of hibernation with an expensive vid card
the thing doesn't know what to do with itself, and that's why they don't
work. Want to hibernate, get a cheap vid board!
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Well, I'll be blowed (so to speak).

After experiencing problems on going into hibernation (thought it was controller
issue) I reinstalled my old video drivers that came with my graphics card, as
opposed to using the latest "generic" Nvidia drivers. PC now goes into
hibernation no problems with the ATA!33 card NOT in the bus master PCI slot.

All good info for the knowledge bank!

Mal


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Excellent, glad I could help you!

Ice Man said:
Well, I'll be blowed (so to speak).

After experiencing problems on going into hibernation (thought it was controller
issue) I reinstalled my old video drivers that came with my graphics card, as
opposed to using the latest "generic" Nvidia drivers. PC now goes into
hibernation no problems with the ATA!33 card NOT in the bus master PCI slot.

All good info for the knowledge bank!

Mal


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Excellent, glad I could help you!
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:)

But I have now the most unusual performance gap.......

I connected my ATA100 80Gb Samsung SV8004H to a new ATA133 PCI controller card
that supports ATA33 upwards. The card was to replace a Promise ATA33 Fasttrack
card that I needed to support the HDD (three other IDE ATAPI devices).

With the new ATA133 controller the best resumption time I got from hibernation
was 45 secs (XP Pro).

For various reasons I won't explain now, I have refitted my old ATA33 PRomise
controller and reattached the SAmsung drive to it.

The best time I get for resumption from Hibernation is.....

16 seconds.

WTF? All logic is defied on that one for me considering benchmarks under
windoze for the Samsung on the ATA133 controller was about 25% faster than the
PRomise. And its exactly the same drive wish the same software (excepting the
controller software obviously).

:confused:

Mal


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