System hibernation appears to block - pull the plug to reboot !

[Guest]

I have a problem with what appears to be Windows XP hibernation/power management on an HP Pavilion deskside

First, the machine is a 1.8 AMD HP Pavilion, 256 M memory, 40 G disk running XP Family edition. All the proposed windows updates have been installed since buying the machine a year ago and Norton live update is activated

Since about 10 days, if I let the machine go to hibernation/power savings mode with no particular application running, it appears to be impossible to reactivate the system with mouse movement or keyboard action. In addition, the start/stop button is ineffective and I have to unpug/replug the power to reboot

In the year or so I have had the machine, this behaviour has not been previously observed

Thank you in advance for your help/pointers

Mike Wilson

 

[Chris Morton]

This is a known problem with notebooks running XP. Don't know of any fixes,
but someone please prove me wrong!!!

ChrisMo

I have a problem with what appears to be Windows XP hibernation/power

management on an HP Pavilion deskside.

First, the machine is a 1.8 AMD HP Pavilion, 256 M memory, 40 G disk

running XP Family edition. All the proposed windows updates have been
installed since buying the machine a year ago and Norton live update is
activated.

Since about 10 days, if I let the machine go to hibernation/power savings

mode with no particular application running, it appears to be impossible to
reactivate the system with mouse movement or keyboard action. In addition,
the start/stop button is ineffective and I have to unpug/replug the power to
reboot.

 

[Sharon F]

I have a problem with what appears to be Windows XP hibernation/power
management on an HP Pavilion deskside.

First, the machine is a 1.8 AMD HP Pavilion, 256 M memory, 40 G disk
running XP Family edition. All the proposed windows updates have been
installed since buying the machine a year ago and Norton live update is
activated.

Since about 10 days, if I let the machine go to hibernation/power
savings mode with no particular application running, it appears to be
impossible to reactivate the system with mouse movement or keyboard
action. In addition, the start/stop button is ineffective and I have to
unpug/replug the power to reboot.

In the year or so I have had the machine, this behaviour has not been
previously observed.

Thank you in advance for your help/pointers.

Mike Wilson.

Hibernation saves the contents of RAM to disk and powers off the machine.
To resume from a hibernate state starts out the same as a cold boot, turn
the power on. Once the barebones of Windows is loaded the data stored in
hiberfil.sys is restored.