CarPC randomly fails to hibernate (freezes/stuck). Out of ideas.

**nobb** · 05-01-2009, 10:09 PM

So about once a month, my system fails to properly go into hibernation. I am running XP SP3 with all the latest updates. It will go into the "Windows is preparing to hibernate" screen with the blue progress bars, then on the very last bar, the screen just freezes up and nothing happens. The only way to shut it down is to wait for my M2 ATX to cut power, or manually cut power.

Ive done a fresh reinstall of XP with all the basics, tried disabling various services/programs, messed around with the BIOs, pretty much played around with whatever I can get my hands on. This problem appears to be completely random, since 99% of the time my system hibernates just fine. I've checked my Event Viewer and cannot see anything wrong. I never had this problem with my old Via M10000 board, it was only when I upgraded to a Jetway J7F2WE2G that I started getting this problem.

I am completely out of ideas and was wondering if someone has any additional ideas???

**Bxsteez** · 05-01-2009, 10:23 PM

Have u experienced flaky behavior from your harddrive or ram?

**nobb** · 05-01-2009, 10:29 PM

Ram I haven't tested...I should do that. As for the hard drive, SMART info looks good, but I guess I could run a disk scan. But it's very hard to determine if any of that will actually work since there is no way to reproduce the problem.

**Bxsteez** · 05-01-2009, 10:41 PM

Testing it may not be the way to figure it out at this point since its a rare occurence, so i would guess if you test it that you won't see anything wrong. I mean from normal use. Have you seen either one of those just freak out at one point during ur normal use? It could be a software glitch but i'm thinking its not since you reformatted your harddrive and reinstalled xp.