Hang when resume after hibernation

[cheerful]

ECS K7S5A + Athlon XP 1600

Was working perfectly, incl. hibernation and resume. Somehow resume stopped working. The screen will turn blank/black and the IDE LED will go on for ever. Tried to disable IDE channels and pulled all IDE devices, the LED is off but the screen is still blank.

Is there any way to track down the offending device/driver?

Thanks!

 

[bcastner]

These are tricky problems. You need to explore and play a little bit.

MS Troubleshooter:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308029

A Very good site:

http://www.windowsxpforums.com/windowsxp_shutdown_restart.htm

The Classic site:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

I will add my own two cents here. I have found the problem if it is one that suddenly appears can be traced to the addition of a USB device recently to the system. The drivers are generally at a fairly primitive state of development in terms of hibernation in particular.

 

[dignick]

Could be a similar problem to what I had, go to: thread779-631338 to see the thread. Download bootvis from microsoft website to track what windows is doing.

 

[cheerful]

Most of the articles refer to problem during shutdown/standby/hibernation, not on resume. There is not much tools available, not even an log (my event log does not have any error).

 

[bcastner]

Shutdown, restart (reboot) and hibernation issues are identical when viewed towards finding the cause. All relate to the APCI features and interaction between BIOS, XP and your devices.

 

[cheerful]

bcastner, I have no problem during restart/shutdown/standby/hibernation. The only time I have problem is during resume. Those articles all describe problem s during shutdown time. There is no similarity for me to explore and my event log is empty. So even these problems have the same source cause, I don't get much idea from those articles.

 

[bcastner]

Did you remove the hibernation partition?

Kevin Oberman wrote:

Most laptops have the capability of "sleeping" in two modes.

1. suspend where most of the system is powered off, but the memory is
kept on so that the system can pick up right where it left off (except
for drivers re-initing hardware) when the system is resumed.

2. Hibernate where the contents of memory and some system registers
are written ti a pore-allocated space on disk, usually a dedicated
partition. The boot is then tagged that the hibernation partition is
active and the systems is power completely off. On powering up, the
BIOS will detect that i=the system was in hibernation and reload the
memory and registers and resuming where the system left off. Hardware
must still be re-initialized and it's up to the drivers to handle
this.

Suspend is faster, but continues limited battery drain. Hibernation
takes a while to stop and start and requires a dedicated partition
(slice), but the system is totally off while in hibernation.

I don't know if all laptops support both, but every one I have used
does. IBM has a stand-alone tool on it's web site that creates a
hibernation partition on ThinkPads (which I use). You probably need to
check with the manufacturer of your system to see what is available.

 

[cheerful]

I am using a desktop. As far as I can tell, enable hibernation will reserve a chunk of disk space equal to RAM size on the C: drive.

 

[bcastner]

The issue is whether you removed the hiberfile.sys, not whether it is a desktop or laptop.

 

[smah]

As mentioned before, this is a very difficult problem to diagnose. Based on my personal experience with this problem, I suggest you start by removing all USB devices before the machine goes to standby/hibernate. "all USB devices" includes any card readers or other devices that may be installed in your case.

 

[cheerful]

I tried with USB devices before but I will retry it tonight.

 

[cheerful]

Tried several things and none worked:
pull all usb devices
pull usb card
pull sound card
pull modem
disable IDE controllers

 

[geilerts]

Cheerful,

I have what seems a similar problem to yours. Did you find the cause?

 

[eyec]

is this a Compaq box? if so call them.