Hibernation help

falconey · 08-02-2004, 07:42 AM

Does the hard drive determine if a system can hibernate? My old program hard drive crapped out on me after I did something really stupid so I put in a new drive. Now the system doesn't give me the option of enabling hibernation. Any help here would be much appreciated.

Geking · 08-02-2004, 07:58 AM

Make sure it is enabled in the power tab under control panel, also, sometimes windows XP does not like to show it at the Bubble power screen. Try hitting the H key at that point. If the pc goes into hybernation, then you have it enabled, and you can put a shortcut somewhere by going command.exe - (whatever the hybernate command is)(sorry, is at work and I don't want to test by makeing my pc go into hybernation mode, specialy becaue it is also a server)

chut · 08-02-2004, 07:59 AM

I don't believe that matters. Maybe if you are using a really old drive? Are you using winxp? If so, you have to turn on Hybernation from within the properties of your power settings. Right click on your desktop, go to screen saver, power settings and then Hybernate. If that doesn't do it for you, I'll poke around some more.
Peter

falconey · 08-02-2004, 09:07 AM

1st it's XP Pro, second the hard drive is a western digital and it's newer than the hard drive I just had in. This one is not even a yr old.

I have tried going in to enable hibernation as mentioned already. It doesn't even give me the tab that allows it. Microsoft's website states if it doesn't give you this tab that the hardware doens't support it, but that has to be bunk. All else stayed the same the only thing that changed was the harddrive. This is ****in me off big time.

falconey · 08-02-2004, 09:10 AM

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_mcc_jiox.asp

nl4jy · 08-02-2004, 09:33 AM

Check your bios...You might had it disable in there. Microsoft can't see what the bios hide.

falconey · 08-02-2004, 09:35 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by nl4jy

Check your bios...You might had it disable in there. Microsoft can't see what the bios hide.

I can check but I didn't change the bios settings to begin with.

falconey · 08-02-2004, 09:36 AM

Could it possibly be a driver?

chut · 08-02-2004, 09:36 AM

I don't know for sure. Check in your BIOS and make sure that you have enabled STD (suspend to disk) rather than or in addition to STR (suspend to RAM)

KimaX · 08-02-2004, 09:49 AM

It could be a driver....I had the same problem and the only way I was able to enable hibernation was to get rid of a virtual drive program. From my experience, I've had two programs (D-tools and Alcohol 120%) which would not let me hibernate. With Alcohol 120%, I uninstalled the program, enabled hibernation then re-installed and it worked fine. But with D-tools, no matter what I did, I couldn't get hibernation working with it installed.

frodobaggins · 08-02-2004, 10:53 AM

D-tools hibernates fine for me.

falconey · 08-03-2004, 06:58 AM

There was nothing in the bios to help me out. I don't know what to try now outside of reformatting the hard drive, again. Man this sux!

falconey · 08-03-2004, 11:57 AM

?????All the experts here and no more ideas???????

RobIles · 08-03-2004, 12:33 PM

You say it doesnt even display the Hibernate tab under power settings ?

If this is the case, go into device manager, and expand the "computer" icon - - what description does it give ? (It should read "Advanced Computer and Power Interface (ACPI)") or something similar.

if it has something (vastly) different, then I'd assume that power saving was disabled in the bios (or at least ACPI compliant features were turned off) when the OS was installed.

IIRC, ACPI isn't re-detected by the OS in a plug and play manner if it's enabled post OS install.

1st, I'd run the "add new hardware wizard" and see if that picks it up, if it doesnt you could try updating the driver (of the computer object under device manager)....to ACPI.......

do let me/us know how you get on

Rob

falconey · 08-03-2004, 12:57 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by RobIles

You say it doesnt even display the Hibernate tab under power settings ?

If this is the case, go into device manager, and expand the "computer" icon - - what description does it give ? (It should read "Advanced Computer and Power Interface (ACPI)") or something similar.

if it has something (vastly) different, then I'd assume that power saving was disabled in the bios (or at least ACPI compliant features were turned off) when the OS was installed.

IIRC, ACPI isn't re-detected by the OS in a plug and play manner if it's enabled post OS install.

1st, I'd run the "add new hardware wizard" and see if that picks it up, if it doesnt you could try updating the driver (of the computer object under device manager)....to ACPI.......

do let me/us know how you get on

Rob

Thx Rob I'll try that as soon as I can.