Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Hibernate going wonky

  1. #1
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Posts
    252

    Hibernate going wonky

    My XP PC is slowly getting more and more eccentric. A little while back, it started to sometimes fail to hibernate or turn off... it would get to the shutdown screen and hang forever.
    Most recently, I've found that when I set it to hibernate and walk off, I come back to find it on the login screen - instead of hibernating it brings up the hibernate progress bar and then some-how ends up on the login screen.

    Any ideas?

  2. #2
    Titanium Member efc's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2002
    Location
    North Central Arkansas
    Posts
    2,103
    I am having the same problem. Been fighting it for a couple weeks. Tried turning off the power settings. Deleted several programs that might have been causing the issue, including Ad-aware.
    Linux Mint Debian Edition

  3. #3
    Succeded in braking Windo TZ Veteran Dehcbad25's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2002
    Location
    DE - USA
    Posts
    2,222
    This is usually a problem with programs that change the driver for the power state and when the machine tries to switch the power state it hangs.
    A usual cause is Windows Media Center, if it was configured as an server or extender will do that, since during setup it removes those states to avoid the computer being offline.
    However, I have not been able to fix it myself since I did not almost spend time trying to fix this, but you can try switching power schemes.
    I can try when I go home, since my computer doesn't hybernate anymore (because of WMC), but here is some readying for the meantime
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841858
    I wonder if there is a way to reset the windows power management.
    BTW, windows 7 sleep mode (S3) is awesome. The computer can recover as fast as it can recover from a screen saver

  4. #4
    Titanium Member efc's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2002
    Location
    North Central Arkansas
    Posts
    2,103
    Right after my post, a windows update started to install. The system hung during the update. At that point xp would hang at the welcome screen.

    Windows repair would not work so I am now writing 0's to my hd in preparation for a clean install of xp.
    Linux Mint Debian Edition

  5. #5
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Posts
    252
    It just gets weirder...

    As I said I've never been able to catch Windows in the act, but I assumed it jumped straight to the login screen at the end of hibernation process.

    However last night I watched the PC hibernate, and saw it actually shut down at the end. Yet this morning, there it was, running again, on the login screen. As far as I can tell, the PC turned itself back on!

    The obvious answer is that our cat jumped on the keyboard in the night, but the wireless keyboard does not work when the PC is hibernated. And there's no way the power button on the PC can be pushed accidentally.

    Ideas?

  6. #6
    Old and Cranky Super Moderator rik's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    Watching Your every move...
    Posts
    4,303
    System Restore back to before this began? Sounds to me like an update went in crooked...

  7. #7
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Posts
    252
    How can a Windows update cause the PC to turn itself on from a depowered state? The OS isn't running when hibernated, is it? The memory contents are shunted to hard-disk and the PC turns off.

  8. #8
    Titanium Member efc's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2002
    Location
    North Central Arkansas
    Posts
    2,103
    my problems corrected after doing a recovery disk installation.
    Linux Mint Debian Edition

  9. #9
    Succeded in braking Windo TZ Veteran Dehcbad25's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2002
    Location
    DE - USA
    Posts
    2,222
    As I put in my post, did you tried reseting the power profiles?

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •