'Hibernate' mode

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William B. Lurie

My XP seems to have a mind of its own as to shutting
monitor off and later putting OS into a power-down
mode of some sort, so that when I hit the power button,
it all comes back on fairly quickly to where it was.

Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. Are rules
and definitions published for how to make it do that
every time?
 
Yes, thank you. But the machine seems to have a mind of its
own and ignores those settings. I'm set for Home/Office Desk
Power Schemes, and Monitor off after 15 minutes, Hard
Disk off Never, and System Standby 20 minutes. With those
settings, the green power light on my PC doesn't ever go
out. But I used to have an arrangement where all of the above
are (I thought) as I state them, but the main power light
goes out.......and when I hit the power button to 'resume', it
comes on, to where it left off, and *quickly*, not a Reboot.
 
From what you describe you system goes into standby mode and is not going
into Hibernation.
Do you have hibernation tab in power options and is it set to allow
hibernation?
Also are you running background program which will prevent hibernation?
 
Unknown said:
From what you describe you system goes into standby mode and is not going
into Hibernation.
Do you have hibernation tab in power options and is it set to allow
hibernation?
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There is no hibernation tab as such....but hibernation appears
as an option in two places......under Advanced.........as
an option when I press the "shut off" button, and when I press
the "sleep" button.......which is a new term to me.
Also are you running background program which will prevent hibernation?
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No.......or at least not that I know of. Besides, I liked the
mode in which it returned me, when starting up again, to the
same place I was at.....mailbox, Swiss Radio Classic.....
 
Which XP OS are you using?
William B. Lurie said:
There is no hibernation tab as such....but hibernation appears
as an option in two places......under Advanced.........as
an option when I press the "shut off" button, and when I press
the "sleep" button.......which is a new term to me.

No.......or at least not that I know of. Besides, I liked the
mode in which it returned me, when starting up again, to the
same place I was at.....mailbox, Swiss Radio Classic.....
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Compaq apparently has incorporated APM (advanced power management) in a
slightly different manner than other computers. Every computer that I have
run across has a hibernation tab in power options (unless the main board
doesn't support it). APM can be enabled or disabled in BIOS. I have never
seen 'sleep button' but since your computer is fairly new it could be
something new. Another difference is that in power options the user can set
the idle time before the system hibernates. All I can say is your system
appears to be going into standby mode and not hibernation.
When the computer hibernates the power light goes off and to resume you must
hit power on button. In standby, the computer resumes upon a mouse movement
or key depression on the keyboard.
Since yours is a fairly new machine it warrants a call to Compaq tech
support if for no other reason than to learn something new. Sorry I can't
help.
 
You're pretty much right on all counts, UNK.
I do have APM and it has Hibernate as one of
many options in dropdowns. I had been using
APM (I think) and decided to try the Home/Office Desk
option instead of Energy Star. There are so many
possible combinations, I think I'll eventually hit
on the one (again) that turns the power light off
but resumes where it left off when power button
is pressed again. Thanks.
 
And here's another new wrinkle: After sitting idle for 20 minutes,
the power button light began to flash, and an error pane popped
up, saying "Windows Ststem Error---Insufficient system resources
to complete the API"....

Gosh, I have 1.5GB of Ram, and everything looks reasonable in
Task Manager/Performance. Commit charge 458, limit 2040, peak 740.
Kernel Memory 117M, paged 90M, non-paged 28M. CPU usage low.
What else can I do to check?

I thought I had hit on the right combination of settings yesterday,
because it "hibernated" properly. Then overnight it just stayed in
the mode where the monitor shut down, but even Screen Saver
didn't, and of course the main power button was still lit.

Does Microsoft, who I assume generated the software built into
Control Panel>>Power Options have any written KB articles
telling how to set up all the options? Like, what should I *not*
have running "in the background" in order to make sure that it
hibernates?
 
I'm sure you know that API is 'application program interface'. I don't
however know how it ties into your failure.
I have nothing running in the background on my system and always use standby
followed by hibernation and never have any failures. I can only suspect you
have something running in the background or something scheduled quite often.
Don't know if auto update can cause this as I don't use auto update.
One approach to solving would be to remove everything in the startup folder.
 
This is a belated update. The problem has been partially solved....
HP acknowledged that, somehow, for reasons they didn't get
involved with, my Presario's XP came with no 'hibernate' tab in
the Power Options neighborhood. They had me delete ACPI from
the Control Panel/Systems/device manager/System devices (I
think that's where), and when I rebooted, it found them and
installed the Hibernate tab on the Power Schemes tabs, and
now the system seems able to go into something resembling
hibernation. I used to have a long list of power schemes
including Standby and Energy-Wise, and now there are only
two...Home/Office and Laptop (I think).

So all of the looking and advice were pleasant and much appreciated....
but the solution was in getting hibernate installed when it had not
been. Thanks for trying, guys.
Bill L.
 
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