XP Does Not Remember HIBERNATE Setting

[bogus1one]

Win XP SP2
Dell Latitude D820

I had the Laptop setup to Hibernate when I close the lid. Suddenly,
it's no longer doing this.

When I run powercfg.cpl and select the Advanced tab, I can have two
options under the "When I close the lid of my portable computer" drop
list: Do Nothing or Hibernate.

I select Hibernate and click OK/Apply, to close the dialog.

Run powercfg.cpl again and go to the Advanced tab again and the option
has reverted to Do nothing. And no, the thing won't hibernate when I
close the lid.

I also ran powercfg /query from the command prompt and this says that
both System hybernate and System standby are not supported. I don't
know if it's related or not, but it doesn't sound promising.

Note that I have plenty of disk space (about 9.5G free on a 60G drive)
and this is NEW behavior. Hibernating on closing the lid used to
work. What changed was that I had to repair my XP installation a few
days ago by going through the XP install again. Now I've done this
before with no apparent ill effects so I'm not completely convinced
this is the issue.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Bob I]

Try disable Hibernate, reboot, enable and see if it works again.

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Win XP SP2

Dell Latitude D820

I had the Laptop setup to Hibernate when I close the lid. Suddenly,
it's no longer doing this.

When I run powercfg.cpl and select the Advanced tab, I can have two
options under the "When I close the lid of my portable computer" drop
list: Do Nothing or Hibernate.

I select Hibernate and click OK/Apply, to close the dialog.

Run powercfg.cpl again and go to the Advanced tab again and the option
has reverted to Do nothing. And no, the thing won't hibernate when I
close the lid.

I also ran powercfg /query from the command prompt and this says that
both System hybernate and System standby are not supported. I don't
know if it's related or not, but it doesn't sound promising.

Note that I have plenty of disk space (about 9.5G free on a 60G drive)
and this is NEW behavior. Hibernating on closing the lid used to
work. What changed was that I had to repair my XP installation a few
days ago by going through the XP install again. Now I've done this
before with no apparent ill effects so I'm not completely convinced
this is the issue.

Anyone have any ideas?

Have you tried applying the fix from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095/en-us

While not specific to the setting not sticking in the Power Management
setting, it's worth a shot. One other thing you could try to do is to
change the "Power Scheme" setting from Portable/Laptop to Home/Office
Desk and seeing if that makes it stick.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[bogus1one]

Tried resetting, no luck.

Try disable Hibernate, reboot, enable and see if it works again.

 

[bogus1one]

Tried the hotfix, no change in behavior.

Tried changing the power scheme, no change.

 

[Unknown]

It cannot hibernate if something is running. Did you verify nothing running
in background?

 

[bogus1one]

The problem is more than just the fact it won't hibernate. The
hibernate tab is missing from powercfg.cpl.

I've seen snippets of this issue here and there on the internet in
various places but there doesn't seem to be a general consensus on how
to fix it.

One other bit of information, the hiberfil.sys file is on my system in
the root drive. This is the file that memory gets serialized to on
hibernation. I've even deleted this file and the OS recreates it upon
rebooting. This indicates to me that hibernation is on (even though
the tab is missing).

Please Help!!

 

[Unknown]

If APM (advanced power management) is not enabled in BIOS you will not have
a Hibernate tab. In BIOS make sure
ACPI is set to S3 and APM is enabled.

 

[bogus1one]

Yeah, I've poked around the BIOS. There's nothing there to enable or
disable as it relates to Power Management. I even worked with Dell on
this and her final solution was to rebuild the notebook. I'm fairly
certain this will work, but I'm not willing to do that at this time.

I'm pretty sure ACPI is enabled because if I look at Device manager-

Computer I have a listing for "ACPI Multiprocessor PC".

Anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[Unknown]

Is APM listed in BIOS? If not, you need to update your BIOS

 

[bogus1one]

Keep in mind this used to work. It has suddenly stopped working. I
wasn't playing around in the BIOS when this stopped working so I don't
believe that a BIOS setting is the culprit.

Thanks for any insight.

 

[Patrick Coghlan]

I could never get my Lattitude to hibernate by closing the lid, so I
finally called Dell tech support - thinking I might need a new MB while
still under warranty.

The first thing they had me do was get the latest drivers for a bunch of
things, including the Intel chipset.

Hibernate worked after that, so if you've updated some drivers lately
this might be why it stopped working.