I am running windows XP on a Compaq V2000 laptop. When I close the lid
the laptop goes to hibernation mode. When I open it, it gives me a
message like "Resuming Windows..." with a bar.

If I close the lid and open it a few minutes later, windows comes up
basically instantly.

If I close the lid and open it after say, 6 hours, it takes much longer
to come up, perhaps as much as 3 minutes.

Does anyone know why it takes so long? The bar gets stuck as 100% and
if I continue to wait, I eventually see it come into windows.

thanks

MKoool <mohankhurana@gmail.com> wrote:
Return from hibernation to disk. Or suspension to ram - not clear which
from your statement.

Return from suspend to ram (or maybe it didn't even do any suspension).

Return from hibernation to disk.

Why wouldn't it? How much ram do you have? When you hibernate to disk,
all the ram has to be recovered from disk on resume.

Well, it's probably helping individual processes out from whatever
state they were in - if they were talking to a device like a sound card
or a network card, then some reinitialisation MUST take place, and the
card may not end up in quite the same place as the process thinks it is
in. Just before hibernation each process has to be sent to sleep and
then packed away in a safe state.

Please configure your suspend/hibernate choices to your taste via yur
o/s's (or your laptop manufaturer's) power control facilities.

Peter

Ahhh... I have 1.5 gigs of RAM, maybe thats the reason...

MKoool wrote:
I think there is a device that has gone into sleep, low power, or
power-off mode that the OS is having problems restarting. The ethernet
adapter or wireless adapter is a likely culprit. Open devices in Device
Manager, and on the Advanced or Settings tab, set power management to
Automatic. You might have to experiment a bit.

Q

Actually, I was fooling around with one wireless driver setting a while
back. I had the broadcom driver on "Max power savings", I will disable
the power savings and see how that goes....

thanks for your help!