topic Re: Hibernation in PCs & Accessories

Hibernation

gyron1 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:45:25 GMT

Hello once again. I have a problem that has just appeared in that I can not hibernate my vaio laptop. The facility for pressing shift to change standby to hibernate and the Fn+F12 does not work. I have been into Control Panel>Power Options but the Hibernation tab is not available there either! Any idea what has happened please??
Many thanks,
Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:52:19 GMT

Hi Gyron,

click Start then click All Programs and then click Accessories.

Then right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

If User Account Control pop-up appears click on Continue to allow the action.

In the command prompt window, type powercfg -H ON and then close the CMD prompt window..

Hopefully hibernation will now be active again..

Re: Hibernation

gyron1 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:02:48 GMT

Hi Thalamus,

thank you once again for your help - yes that did the trick. Bit worried what caused the problem in the first place though.
One thing I didn't mention was that when I have been trying to Hibernate a message as follows came up a few times;

"Windows - System Error Insufficient system resourses exist to complete tha API"

any ideas what all this means?

Thank you once again for your kind help,

Kindest regards,

Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:35:27 GMT

Hi Gyron,

what model Vaio you have.?

From what I can see the cause is linked to pc's running XP Sp2 with more then a GB of RAM..

See Microsoft's knowledge base article for more information: Knowledge Base KB909095

There is also a fix available but some people have stated that is doesn't help..

MS FIX

Re: Hibernation

gyron1 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:25:32 GMT

Hi Thalamus,

I have an early Vaio PCG-Z1SP with SP1 installed (deliberately resisted installing SP2 'cos of problems various people have had and also SP1 seems to work OK for me). The only upgrade I have installed was a couple of years ago and this was to add some more RAM so that I am now at max. of 1GB. The problem of Hibernation has just arisen for some reason.

Kind regards,

Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:14:08 GMT

The problem of Hibernation has just arisen for some reason.

Has the hibernation problem returned, if not let's hope this was an isolated occurrence..

Re: Hibernation

gyron1 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:22:12 GMT

Hi Thalumus,

Oops, just come off internet (all closed down) pressed Fn+F12 and got message as before;

"Windows System Error Insufficient system resourses exist to complete the API"

Hibernation feature vanished as before! Can't understand why this problem has just started to manifest itself - very annoying!

Ps, forgot to mention in previous mailing that I am running XP Pro.

Kind regards,

Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:31:00 GMT

Hi Gyron,

does this Windows XP Patch help: Hibernation Problem on Computers with 1 GB of RAM

Re: Hibernation

gyron1 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:41:27 GMT

Hi Thalamus,

Apologies for silence, but contracted a bug (human variety), which has laid me low for a while.

No, I have not tried the Windows XP Patch for computers with more than 1GB RAM yet. Before I do maybe you can advise me a little further please - I had thought about using the 'Windows XP System Restore tool' to go bck to say a month ago when I did not have this problem AND then maybe use the Windows XP Patch you suggest. What do you think?

I upgraded my laptop to 1GB RAM well over 18 months ago and this is the first time Hibernation has risen its ugly head.

Kind regards,

Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:18 GMT

Hi Gyron,

sorry to read you've been unwell, hope you're feeling better now..

Before I do maybe you can advise me a little further please - I had thought about using the 'Windows XP System Restore tool' to go bck to say a month ago when I did not have this problem

It's worth a try, once you have completed the system restore I would wait a while before installing the Windows XP Patch to see if the system restore has helped..

Re: Hibernation

gyron1 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:36:14 GMT

OK, will do. Let you know how I get on,

Thanks,

Gyron

Re: Hibernation

Thalamus. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:12:53 GMT

You're welcome, good luck..