For the past week, my PC has shut down when it was supposed to hibernate. It
has been set to hibernate after four hours for two years, but now, I use it
in the morning, leave it on, go to work, and it is completely off when I get
home. My power setting have been triple checked and have not been changed.
Windows update is turned on. Any thoughts on what this could be? Probably a
coincidence, but for a short time before this started happening, my computer
would sleep instead of hibernating.

sorry for the double post. boring technical problem, obviously

"smg" wrote:

> For the past week, my PC has shut down when it was supposed to hibernate. It
> has been set to hibernate after four hours for two years, but now, I use it
> in the morning, leave it on, go to work, and it is completely off when I get
> home. My power setting have been triple checked and have not been changed.
> Windows update is turned on. Any thoughts on what this could be? Probably a
> coincidence, but for a short time before this started happening, my computer
> would sleep instead of hibernating.

Windows has no timed shutdown so I dont know whats happened.Are you sure its
not hibernating but on restart it doesn't load the info from the hibernate
file. Try turning off hibernating reboot and turn it back on. Double check
all your power options hibernate might be turned off. Here's a microsof
article for win2k but should apply to xp.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=266169#appliesto. Here is another article
that might help
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_str_vzeb.asp

Tiny url of above
http://tinyurl.com/5mpfy

Google for more

Glen P


"shg" <shg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A56C11C-BCEE-4FB1-ABB7-C859418069EE@microsoft.com...
> sorry for the double post. boring technical problem, obviously
>
> "smg" wrote:
>
>> For the past week, my PC has shut down when it was supposed to hibernate.
>> It
>> has been set to hibernate after four hours for two years, but now, I use
>> it
>> in the morning, leave it on, go to work, and it is completely off when I
>> get
>> home. My power setting have been triple checked and have not been
>> changed.
>> Windows update is turned on. Any thoughts on what this could be?
>> Probably a
>> coincidence, but for a short time before this started happening, my
>> computer
>> would sleep instead of hibernating.

Thanks -- I'll try your suggestions, but it is definitely restarting. It
goes through all of the startup screens, the system tray gradually fills up,
and none of my apps are open.

"Glen" wrote:

> Windows has no timed shutdown so I dont know whats happened.Are you sure its
> not hibernating but on restart it doesn't load the info from the hibernate
> file. Try turning off hibernating reboot and turn it back on. Double check
> all your power options hibernate might be turned off. Here's a microsof
> article for win2k but should apply to xp.
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=266169#appliesto. Here is another article
> that might help
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_str_vzeb.asp
>
> Tiny url of above
> http://tinyurl.com/5mpfy
>
> Google for more
>
> Glen P
>
>
> "shg" <shg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6A56C11C-BCEE-4FB1-ABB7-C859418069EE@microsoft.com...
> > sorry for the double post. boring technical problem, obviously
> >
> > "smg" wrote:
> >
> >> For the past week, my PC has shut down when it was supposed to hibernate.
> >> It
> >> has been set to hibernate after four hours for two years, but now, I use
> >> it
> >> in the morning, leave it on, go to work, and it is completely off when I
> >> get
> >> home. My power setting have been triple checked and have not been
> >> changed.
> >> Windows update is turned on. Any thoughts on what this could be?
> >> Probably a
> >> coincidence, but for a short time before this started happening, my
> >> computer
> >> would sleep instead of hibernating.
>
>
>