Re: Hibernate fails in XP with 2GB RAM upgrade

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MJ wrote:

Can any MVP out there help this matters by possibly bringing this issue to the attention of Microsoft XP development team? This issue is there for a long time and does not seem to have any solution without various suggestion.

Please see this post for a summary of the problem. http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/10/13/hibernate

In particular, I'm still running XP SP1 and hotfix (Q330909) does not help even though it says it would. And, people running SP2 are also experiencing the problems. 

Thanks.


"RROHLF" wrote:


Hi Alex:


Not a partition - a file, hiberfil.sys in the root of C:.  That needs to
be the size of RAM.  At a guess on upgrading the RAM, the file has been
made bigger, but is grossly fragmented.  What I would do is turn
Hibernation off in Power Options, thus deleting the file, defrag the
drive, then enable Hibernation again, with enough clean space to create
a 2GB file.

I've experienced the same problem with hibernation failing in my Dell XPS Gen 3 (3.2GHz HT P4, 2GB RAM, twin 80 GB 10Krpm SATA mirrored drives, more details available upon request... :^)

I would tell it to hibernate and it would respond with the classic "Insufficient system resources available to complete the API."

I read the suggestion above and tried it. I went to Control Panel, Performance Options, Power Options, clicked on the "Hibernate" tab and disabled hibernation.

I rebooted, defragged the drive, went back to re-enable hibernation and... the hibernation tab was gone from the Power Options box.

Do you have any clue what I might have done wrong and how I might get the hibernation back?

Thanks to all of the MVP folks for all the help you provide folks like me.

Best wishes,

Rick 


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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User

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