Failure to enter Standby or Hibernation, stops at black screen

[felixfreiberger]

Hi again,

I have another very nasty issue...
My system fails to enter Standby or Hibernation. When I start the process, the monitor fades out to black - as normal - and the system begins to disable devices. I can see i.e. that an attached USB-Stick gets turned off. Unluckily, Windows seems to get stuck in between - my WLAN-Card seems to stay on (indicated by its LED), and the system just gets stuck there. (Interestingly, although the WLAN-Card stays on, the computer seems to disconnect correctly - I can't RDP in in this state.) I have to hold the power switch for 4 seconds to stop that situation.

The behavior started a few days ago, while I was messing around with my drivers because of another (unrelated) issue. Unluckily, System Restore doesn't want to go back, so I'll have to find another solution.
My biggest problem: I just can't find a way to analyze what device is causing the problem - the Event Log shows nothing of interest, and I can't think of other important logs.

Does anyone have an idea what may cause this or how to debug that issue?

Thank you for your help!


Greetings,
Felix Freiberger

 

[Product FRED]

Try changing this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\reliability
setting TimeStampInterval to 0.

 

[richc46]

In the event that the above excellent advice does not work, you may want to read this

Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems - Vista Forums
For 7, too.

 

[felixfreiberger]

Hi,

applying the registry fix, rebooting and initiating standby resulted in the usual freeze. I undid the registry change.

I have already read the general advice you (richc46) linked, but unluckily, I did not find anything useful there.


More ideas, please .

Greetings,
Felix

 

[richc46]

Try this and just cross fingers

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance

More than likely this will not work, since it is a fix for corruption not driver changes made by the user. That being the case the next step will be a repair install

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html?ltr=R

 

[felixfreiberger]

Hi,

I tried the SFC + cross fingers method - the results:

• SFC fixed some errors
• my fingers hurt
• Standby still doesn't work

More ideas?

Greetings,
Felix

 

[felixfreiberger]

Problem solved!

Hi there,

after doing a clean install (solved the problem), working with my laptop (problem came back after a few weeks), doing a system restore back (solved again) and re-doing the modifications I did before one-by-one, I finally found the culprit.

If anyone else has the same problem, uninstall Connectify - Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a Wi-Fi Hotspot - at least for me (64-Bit), it did solve the problem.

Again, thank you all for your help!

With kind regards,
Felix Freiberger

 

[richc46]

Glad that you found a slolution. Take care.

 

[sam handwich]

I had the same problem with connectify and hibernate/sleep. Hope there's a workaround!

 

[bemymonkey]

I'm having the exact same issue on a Thinkpad X41T - however, I don't use Connectify. Any new ideas? Any other possible causes?

Running sfc /SCANNOW as I type this, but I doubt that'll fix anything.

Win7 Pro SP1 32-bit...

 

[thxzerg]

I have the same problem

I use connectify with win7 home premium 64bit.
Laptop is Dell inspiron N3010.
And have same problem(standby/hibernation).


So I tested some situations.
I tried to make various combination.
(turning on and off network adaptors/WiFi function Key,
run and stop Connectify Demon)


And finally,
I found the key was that Laptop was connected to the internet once after booting.
Other settings(ex:turnning on/off adpators) didn't affect.


Situation is like this
Cable connected > Boot > Standby(Fail)
Cable disconnected > Boot > Standby(Success) > Cable connect > get IP > disconnect > Standby(Fail)
* WIFI adaptor was on but didn't connected SSID.



* Of course if I uninstall connectify driver, problem solves.
But I wanna use it.