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If I were you, I would think twice putting my computer in hibernation mode when you have a lot of important things going on.
Reports are circulating that Windows Vista hangs-up when bringing it from hibernate mode — something I have not experienced until this morning.
To my disappointment, when I opened my computer from hibernation mode the operating system suddenly popped up a message — “logging off” then afterwards it said it was updating windows configuration. Ok fine, maybe it was just making tweaks to make my experience better.
Unfortunately, something terrible happened — the computer shut down as I lost three opened virtualized environments with a lot of applications running, two important documents I am editing and a lot of internet pages I have not yet bookmarked.
I was so sleepy last night that I clicked on the hibernate menu thinking it was fine. Anyways, be careful when using Windows Vista hibernate option.
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I have Vista SP1 on a new machine, all the latest patches, all the latest updates for my vista laptop, and the hibernate “feature” causes problems.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it hangs when going into hibernation. Sometimes when I wake it from hibernation, it GOES BACK into hibernation.
Yeah, it may partially be the fault of hardware drivers. MAYBE. But MS should have made the OS more fault tolerant, and if there is a hardware problem, at least provide better ways to track it down and find a solution. Fancy graphics is a poor substitute for bad error handling.
Umm, Microsoft? Have you heard of quality?
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I have recently updated my motherboard bios(firmware), and all of my drivers. When I brought my comp.out of sleep mode(space bar) it used to immediately do a mini crash dump and usually go to blue screen and suggest that there is a problem with the driver for my video card.The only problem with this was: My driver was up to date.
As soon as I updated the bios for my motherboard- Asus P5N32E SLI my system has been 100% more stable, at least the mini dumps and crashes have stopped. If you have an Asus motherboard you can upate at Asus update.com.
Hope this will be of some use to someone.
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Hi Dawn, I am having the same problem as you and I cannot get out of hibernation mode. I have the word ” hibernating” on a blue and green swirling screen with a blue circle going round and round….did you have any luck getting your computer back to normal?????
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Exact same problem as Dawn above. Did she ever get an answer? Can’t use the laptop at all.
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I have a laptop (Sony viao CR-290) with Vista pre.
The problem is when I put my laptop in hibernate mode sometimes it wake up without any reason ( not also for updating schedule) and it was going de-charge inside my bag.
How I can solve this problem.
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I have a Dell M1530 with Vist Home Premium and I am having the same problem Dawn is having can anyone help??
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i purchased the acer aspire 4720
and hibernation is as perfect as with xp
in win vista
try runing the disk cleanup feature and select everything including files related to hibernation
then reeboot ur comupter
and u will se tht hobernation option is lost
so then in the start menu right click the command promt and run it as administrator the write the following and press enter in the command prompt
powercfg /hibernate on
hope the solution of the problem
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Have SPI installed and still have the same problems as described by others,hibernation/sleep errors computer will not reboot crashes .command prompt powercfg did not work for me tried it last week.
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Hi!
I have the worst example about hibernations in Vista Ultimate 32.
My PC never weak up after last hibernate mode, after reset (from button on case) BIOS don’t recognise SATA Drive! Any body can help! Please!
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Nick the problem you are having with vista eating up your disk space is the system restore feature, Vista will use up to 30% of your disk for restore points, I have disabled my system restore and went from 100 gig free to 119 gig free, and that was in a mere 2-3 weeks of installing vista
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I have VISTA Home premium SP2.Previously, my hibernate option was working. Recently, i found that on shutting down the computer wih Hibernate option & subsequntly restarting tha machine, I am getting an error “Windows did not shut down correctly” choose safe mode , normalto continue… Can anyone please help me with a solution?
I have a Dell Inspron 1525 laptop. I have never used window disk clean up.
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My brother has this same problem. How do we get it back to normal?
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