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| 301250 | 2004-12-09 05:22:00 | I have setup hibernation on my XP standalone PC which is connected to Jetstream. I can put the PC into hibernation successfully using the one touch on the power button. The PC goes into hibernation (lights on processor go off - screen led blinks). However about 2 mins later the PC comes back to life. Does any have ideas on what is causing this and how I could fix it. Thanks Abee |
abee (4746) | ||
| 301251 | 2004-12-09 05:45:00 | It could be anything that awakens the PC, such as the router etc (assuming ethernet connected ADSL). Unfortunately hibernation (and standby) is not tolerated well by much of the software and hardware in use today. Only use it if you do not want reliability of operation in my experience - with many different PC's |
godfather (25) | ||
| 301252 | 2004-12-09 06:17:00 | > > Does any have ideas on what is causing this and how I > could fix it. > > Thanks > > Abee Stab in the dark wake on ring/lan. As stated do not rely on Hibernation to heavily as when you least expect it it will bite you. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 301253 | 2004-12-09 08:17:00 | And here was me starting to like hibernation... I can vouch that it worked when all I had open was explorer and notepad, but I must assume from what you are saying that something such as, say, Photoshop wouldn't tolerate hibernation? |
agent (30) | ||
| 301254 | 2004-12-09 08:32:00 | Software is somewhat "variable" on it's tolerance of hibernation, depending I suspect on hardware factors. Odd things happen, the worst being a failure to wakeup, when it just dies in bed. Less drastic are instabilities after awakening, of quite varied types. Little things like cursors dissapearing at the minor end of the scale. And sometimes it just works fine, in which case use it. Often there is no fix if it doesn't work correctly, apart from not using it. Over the years and all versions of Windows I have given up using it. Apparently it is designed more for laptop hardware (or perhaps the other way around, the hardware is better designed for hibernation) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 301255 | 2004-12-09 10:57:00 | By far most common is USB bus related issues. IE, usb devices fail to wake up with the PC, or worse the entire bus won't wake up and you have no mouse. Other issues are programs resuming in a crashed state (not responding), or a spontaneous reboot. Often a CD/DVD drive will not be detected again, or a new piece of hardware won't be detected. Or something that is NO LONGER there won't be detected as gone; the system will try to access it and lock up or STOP error (reboot). Other times all works perfectly. One thing to remember: Never hibernate when you're taking your drive to a friend's house :( Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 301256 | 2004-12-09 11:10:00 | Some of that is fairly common sense though, I'd think. Since hibernation is meant to restore the computer to it's previous state as though nothing had happened, it figures that adding new hardware or making changes on the drive will muck things up. You wouldn't add new hardware while your computer was powered on, would you. Okay, so consumer-level hot-pluggable hardware (I'm talking like SATA, not USB) might change that now, but that's an exception. I guess it probably more comes down to that when I was using hibernation it was a clean install of Windows, with no USB devices whatsoever. Nothing much could really go wrong there, I should hope. |
agent (30) | ||
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