XP: hibernate very slow all of a sudden, tried to fix it, no success

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Alex Schugman

Hello,

for a few days my Win XP SP2 is hibernating very very slowly. I've
been googling around looking for a solution but cant seem to find the
cause. the write cache is enabled, I have scanned for spyware with
adaware 2007, I even disabled hibernating, defraged the HDD and re-
enabled it, nothing seems to work.

anyone have a clue resp. any ideas?

Alex
 
Is DMA still set on the Primary IDE Channel? Look in Device manager and
check. If it fell back to PIO due to read errors, then things would slow
down a bit. You can reset it by removing it, and letting it reinstall if
this has happened.
 
Is DMA still set on the Primary IDE Channel? Look in Device manager and
check. If it fell back to PIO due to read errors, then things would slow
down a bit. You can reset it by removing it, and letting it reinstall if
this has happened.
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thanks, that worked, brilliant! (how is an average xp user supposed to
know these things? ;) )

at what sort of events is this likely to happen, the fallback to
"PIO"?
 
Alex said:
thanks, that worked, brilliant! (how is an average xp user supposed to
know these things? ;) )

at what sort of events is this likely to happen, the fallback to
"PIO"?
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This part is the reason, "If it fell back to PIO due to read errors".
You're welcome, and have a great day.
 
Interesting. What field/flag in hardware manager indicates if a drive
is in DMA or PIO mode? I looked at my drive(s) and cannot tell.

M
 
How large is your hard drive and how much free disk space?

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System
Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary
Internet Files. Also select Start, All Programs, accessories, System
Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the
latest System Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Have you checked for adequate disk space for hibernation? Is anything
running or not shut down?
 
iggjames said:
I have the same problem - unbelievably slow hibernation - sometimes
takes minutes, but sometimes just hangs for ever:mad:. Appears to be
nothing to do with disks - I'm set to "DMA Ultra";). It's happened ever
since I had some problems with error messages about "delayed write"
failures over the network. I carried out a couple of simple regedits to
stop large file cacheing (which apparently stops those error messages)
and then the hibernate problem appeared:eek:. I reverted the regedits,
but it made no difference (although, oddly, the error "delayed write"
messages have not recurred:rolleyes:). In desperation, I reinstalled
Windows (XP, SP2), using a "Repair", in order to reset all defaults -
but hibernate is still the same. I really don't want to completely
reinstall Windows (it takes about another day to reinstall all my
software). Is there anything else I can try:confused:?
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I have a question for you.

What does the HDTune performance curve look like for your disk ?

http://www.hdtune.com/hdtune_255.exe

The blue line in this picture, shows a normal curve for a disk.

http://www.hdtune.com/benchmark_read.png

The stairstep behavior, is due to "zones" on the hard drive
and is normal.

In some cases, you get "spikes" in the display. The spikes
tend to get worse as the drive gets older.

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/699/hdtune_veloci.jpg

What you don't want, is extended spikes, which stay at a low
transfer rate, for a portion of the disk. This could be an
area of the disk, with a large number of spared sectors in
use.

HDTune also has an error scan, and you can run that to see if
any CRC errors are present. If you don't select the "Quick"
tick box, you'll get a more thorough scan.

Paul
 
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