Hibernation broken

I do remember coming across a thread on the MS site where other people were having problems and they told them they would have to rebuild the hiberfil.sys. Unfortunately I don't have the link.

Have you tried this yet?

How to Turn On and Enable Hibernate in Windows 7

1. Open an elevated Command Prompt with administrator rights by typing Cmd in Start Search, and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter keyboard shortcut.

Or, select Run as Administrator from the Cmd in search resultsType the following command, and hit Enter:

2.
powercfg /hibernate on

I found this little tidbit -

If you have problem of Win 7 not staying in sleep mode, check power settings of your network card. Go to Device Manager, Network Adapters, Properties of your card and than Power Management. Uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer".

I'd suggest snooping around the MS site & see if you can find anything about rebuilding the hiberfil.sys. Logically, it would seem though that something is running actively in the background that immediately wakes the system. Try checking the task manager or get Process Explorer to see if/what might be doing that.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx

kewl deal....glad you found it.

Usually if something works on Vista, it'll work on Win 7.

I'll hang on to what you found for future reference

Kinda funny because you had the opposite problem most people were having - dubbed "The Black Screen Of Death", the sys would go into hibernation and refuse to wake up for anything. They have a fix for it now.

Glad you got it fixed man!

Found this for you

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot entries for a computer running Microsoft Windows. When a computer is started, the boot manager reads the boot entries from the BCD store, and so they become available to the loader and display a boot menu to the user. BCD has now replaced the traditional Boot.ini text file in BIOS-based systems, as storing boot parameters in a text file was considered too vulnerable to malicious attacks to justify its use. The BCDEdit tool can be used to manage BCD stores at the command line.

Aargh! Wait!

Turns out the BCDedit stuff *wasn't* the fix! The fix is assigning a drive letter to my hidden partition! This ties in with some other problems I've been having, I think: my machine is having trouble assigning drive letters to some USB devices (https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tml#post878813), and when I hit F8 on startup, I don't get the safe boot menu (i just get a key stuck error).

So: any ideas now? Seems like windows is having trouble accessing certain volumes, or something like that? argh!

looks like others have had the same problem, without resolution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...e-0b90f9880ee0

Sorry to hear that. I think at this point you might want to go to MS and open up a case on their trouble shooting site.

I've done some checking and haven't found anything aside from the one article I can't seem to find again that suggests rebuilding the hibernation file.

I'll keep my eyes open for you though

Not quite sure what that would be, although you could use powercfg -energy to get a readout of any errors, or go even further and use xperf to troubleshoot it.