Absolutely NO Hibernate

[neo101]

Look in your bios - you should see a setting choice for S1, S3 and modern boards have S4=hibernate.

Make sure its on S3 (or S4 - if this option exists)

 

[gregrocker]

Did you follow these steps to install the SDK then run the .msi for your WIN7 version? Install the Windows Performance Tools Kit - MSFN Forum

 

[Micro1321]

Did you follow these steps to install the SDK then run the .msi for your WIN7 version? Install the Windows Performance Tools Kit - MSFN Forum

Yes.

Look in your bios - you should see a setting choice for S1, S3 and modern boards have S4=hibernate.

Make sure its on S3 (or S4 - if this option exists)

This option doesn't exist.

 

[neo101]

Look in your bios - you should see a setting choice for S1, S3 and modern boards have S4=hibernate.

Make sure its on S3 (or S4 - if this option exists)

This option doesn't exist.

Darn - must be 'hidden' under an 'advanced' menu.

Try to find out on internet which key press reveals advanced menu - if there is one (like F2, F9 etc)

 

[gregrocker]

Look under ACPI power settings in BIOS for the S-state selected.

Also, type Power Options into the Start Search box, under the active Plan>Change Plan Settings, then go Advanced, expand each Sleep option to post back their settings.

 

[dsperber]

Look under ACPI power settings in BIOS for the S-state selected.

Don't forget, he originally said that hibernate used to work.

This would suggest that the cause of the current hibernate failure would not be in the BIOS (unless it auto-changed its own S-state settings somehow, which of course seems highly unlikely).

He hasn't updated video drivers (unless a Windows Update did it, and he didn't know it) so there's no change there which might explain the current failure when it used to work fine.

Plenty of hard drive space, and hiberfil.sys exists.

Hibernate is still an option on the shutdown menu (and not grayed out), so all of the normal prerequisites for Windows to decide to offer it as an option would appear to have been met.

It actually goes into standby instead of hibernate. I wonder if this is a power supply problem? What if everything pertinent to hibernation is actually occurring... until the final command to "turn off the computer"?

 

[Micro1321]

Look under ACPI power settings in BIOS for the S-state selected.

Don't forget, he originally said that hibernate used to work.

This would suggest that the cause of the current hibernate failure would not be in the BIOS (unless it auto-changed its own S-state settings somehow, which of course seems highly unlikely).

He hasn't updated video drivers (unless a Windows Update did it, and he didn't know it) so there's no change there which might explain the current failure when it used to work fine.

Plenty of hard drive space, and hiberfil.sys exists.

Hibernate is still an option on the shutdown menu (and not grayed out), so all of the normal prerequisites for Windows to decide to offer it as an option would appear to have been met.

It actually goes into standby instead of hibernate. I wonder if this is a power supply problem? What if everything pertinent to hibernation is actually occurring... until the final command to "turn off the computer"?

That may be the problem, but why would it do that, how would one go about fixing it?

 

[gregrocker]

You'll need to run the trace to get a definitive answer. Nothing is missed.

PM Cluberti to ask for help running it if needed, or post up in the thread on MSFN where the trace is administered.

 

[Micro1321]

Sorry I heaven't posted in a while, my Internet has been down, I'll retry the trace.

I'll PM Cluberti now.

 

[Micro1321]

What?? The problem was fixed when I corrupted the boot mangeger, and then repaired it. How??

 

[gregrocker]

Cannot understand your last question. Please explain. What repair was run and when.

 

[Micro1321]

I had to repair the boot maniger today, using my repair disk (similar to the install disk) andtyped bootrec.exeFixMbr and bootrec.exeFixBoot, and that somehow fixed it.

 

[gregrocker]

Somehow corruption of your boot sector was affecting hibernate? Never heard of that.

BTW all boot repair commands are automated in Win7 Startup Repair, which if you ran it might have run SFC, Disk Check or other repairs that could conceivably fix hibernate.

Glad it worked out. Save a Backup Image or Set a Restore Point named "Hibernate works" then apportion up to 20% of HD for SysRestore so it stays around: System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage

 

[Micro1321]

Thank you!
The corruption occurred after this all started, and I did do the startup repair also. So I guess it makes sense. Anyway, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!