XP stopped hibernating

[J.W. Sargent]

XP Home w/SP3

System used to go into Standby then Hibernate as the settings used. For
whatever reason it will not do this anymore. There have been no changes
in memory (read somewhere that this problem comes up when over 1 GB of
memory is installed), used to hibernate, now it doesn't anymore. Any
suggestions will be appreciated....

 

[John Wunderlich]

XP Home w/SP3

System used to go into Standby then Hibernate as the settings
used. For whatever reason it will not do this anymore. There have
been no changes in memory (read somewhere that this problem comes
up when over 1 GB of memory is installed), used to hibernate, now
it doesn't anymore. Any suggestions will be appreciated....

How much free disk space is left on your hard drive?
Hibernation takes at least as much disk space as you have RAM in your
computer.

"Hibernation Does Not Work on a Portable Computer After Windows XP
Upgrade and RAM Increase"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305905>

"You cannot put a computer that has more than 4 GB of memory into
hibernation in Windows XP, in Windows Server 2003, in Windows Vista,
or in Windows Server 2008"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888575>

HTH,
John