4
I cannot hibernate windows. When I click "hibernate", my laptop(windows) just locks and the screen goes black. I can unlock without any problem. I do not have any problem with other options such as "sleep" or "shut down". I updated the chipset drivers but it did not help. There is not any option in BIOS about the sleep modes. "Hibernate" is "on" on Windows. Any advice?
My Laptop specifications: MSI A5000 3gb system memory, Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit installed, Gentoo linux installed, Grub bootloader(MBR).
Hard drive: Around 4gb of free space in windows partition.
1@goygoycu some motherboards are not compatible with windows hibernate feature but are compatible with the other windows states (sleep, shut down, etc) – Patrick – 2011-03-15T15:22:09.150
What @Patrick said. Also some specific devices, especially if the drivers are poorly written, can keep a machine from hibernating or sleeping. – Shinrai – 2011-03-15T16:02:00.037
I purchased an ssd. I will do a fresh install. I am also thinking that a BIOS update might cause this problem. I flashed it with a modified BIOS which enables overclocking. I can overclock it from 1.8Ghz to 2.5Ghz, I can change the shared video memory size, I can change memory timings... it is a $350 celeron machine. But I did not know that with the old BIOS, it was hibernating properly. I will not switch back to the older BIOS, will try a fresh install. Thank you all. – delete_this_account – 2011-03-15T23:02:51.477
Is it possible the space on your drive is not enough to accommodate a hiberfil.sys file the size that would be needed? – datatoo – 2011-06-17T19:56:22.363