- Hibernation fails
- Posted by Tony Patriarche on January 16th, 2006
I have an ongoing problem with XP Home not hibernating. "Screen Saver>>Power"
is set to hibernate (time-out set and Enable Hibernation checked), but the
system remains active. I am up-to-date on all patches so far as I know.
It originally occurred on only on user, usually with IE6 up but not doing
anything. Then I noticed that power saving could be set system-wide from the
control panel and set it to "Home/Office Desk". Since then, the problem has
been occurring on all users sporadically, on user X consistently. There is
no question of lack of resources; I usually leave the system up with no apps
running.
--
Tony Patriarche
- Posted by Glen on January 16th, 2006
You probably have a program or task/service of some kind running in the
background. Hijack this is very good at listing everything on a system, not
only malware. I assume you have turned hibernate off rebooted and turned it
back on.
Hijack this
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/
Glen P
"Tony Patriarche" <tpatriarche_extractthis_@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:19651611-8563-4C87-9A85-8A103AB9D87A@microsoft.com...
>I have an ongoing problem with XP Home not hibernating. "Screen
>Saver>>Power"
> is set to hibernate (time-out set and Enable Hibernation checked), but the
> system remains active. I am up-to-date on all patches so far as I know.
>
> It originally occurred on only on user, usually with IE6 up but not doing
> anything. Then I noticed that power saving could be set system-wide from
> the
> control panel and set it to "Home/Office Desk". Since then, the problem
> has
> been occurring on all users sporadically, on user X consistently. There
> is
> no question of lack of resources; I usually leave the system up with no
> apps
> running.
> --
> Tony Patriarche
- Posted by Tony Patriarche on January 17th, 2006
Thank you very much, I hadn't thought of using HijackThis.
There was just one extra process in the state where hibernation failed,
ntvdm.exe (DOS/16-bit emulator). When I removed that, hibernation occurred
as scheduled. It was being loaded by an older game that I downloaded
recently.
There may be other sources of the problem, but now I know how to diagnose
them -- thank you once again.
--
Tony Patriarche
"Glen" wrote:
> You probably have a program or task/service of some kind running in the
> background. Hijack this is very good at listing everything on a system, not
> only malware. I assume you have turned hibernate off rebooted and turned it
> back on.
>
> Hijack this
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/
>
> Glen P
>
>
> "Tony Patriarche" <tpatriarche_extractthis_@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:19651611-8563-4C87-9A85-8A103AB9D87A@microsoft.com...
> >I have an ongoing problem with XP Home not hibernating. "Screen
> >Saver>>Power"
> > is set to hibernate (time-out set and Enable Hibernation checked), but the
> > system remains active. I am up-to-date on all patches so far as I know.
> >
> > It originally occurred on only on user, usually with IE6 up but not doing
> > anything. Then I noticed that power saving could be set system-wide from
> > the
> > control panel and set it to "Home/Office Desk". Since then, the problem
> > has
> > been occurring on all users sporadically, on user X consistently. There
> > is
> > no question of lack of resources; I usually leave the system up with no
> > apps
> > running.
> > --
> > Tony Patriarche
>
>
>
- Posted by Glen on January 17th, 2006
Thanks for posting back. Good to know you found the problem.
Glen P
"Tony Patriarche" <tpatriarche_extractthis_@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:722A5B1E-41C7-4D3A-96DA-7578DC6E0537@microsoft.com...
> Thank you very much, I hadn't thought of using HijackThis.
>
> There was just one extra process in the state where hibernation failed,
> ntvdm.exe (DOS/16-bit emulator). When I removed that, hibernation
> occurred
> as scheduled. It was being loaded by an older game that I downloaded
> recently.
>
> There may be other sources of the problem, but now I know how to diagnose
> them -- thank you once again.
> --
> Tony Patriarche
>
>
> "Glen" wrote:
>
>> You probably have a program or task/service of some kind running in the
>> background. Hijack this is very good at listing everything on a system,
>> not
>> only malware. I assume you have turned hibernate off rebooted and turned
>> it
>> back on.
>>
>> Hijack this
>> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/
>>
>> Glen P
>>
>>
>> "Tony Patriarche" <tpatriarche_extractthis_@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>> news:19651611-8563-4C87-9A85-8A103AB9D87A@microsoft.com...
>> >I have an ongoing problem with XP Home not hibernating. "Screen
>> >Saver>>Power"
>> > is set to hibernate (time-out set and Enable Hibernation checked), but
>> > the
>> > system remains active. I am up-to-date on all patches so far as I know.
>> >
>> > It originally occurred on only on user, usually with IE6 up but not
>> > doing
>> > anything. Then I noticed that power saving could be set system-wide
>> > from
>> > the
>> > control panel and set it to "Home/Office Desk". Since then, the
>> > problem
>> > has
>> > been occurring on all users sporadically, on user X consistently.
>> > There
>> > is
>> > no question of lack of resources; I usually leave the system up with no
>> > apps
>> > running.
>> > --
>> > Tony Patriarche
>>
>>
>>
