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cliche · 08-27-2004, 09:25 AM

My computer is intermittently failing to resume from hibernate. It's been happening for a while now (weeks) and does not appear to be related to any hardware or driver changes (I don't think there were any until I started having problems).
Essentially the computer will go through its progress bar as normal as it loads the data from disc, then the screen briefly goes black before I would expect the login screen to appear. When the problem occurs the screen just remains black. It's not completely dead - num lock/caps lock etc still work, but it's not going anywhere!
Rebooting and selecting 'Delete restoration data' boots fine (but obviously loses my state). Attempting to try again to resume gets me back to the black screen.
I've removed all unnecessary hardware, updated drivers on the bits that are left, and upgraded WinXP to SP2 since it started happening, but it's still happening on roughly 1 in 2 hibernations.

Any ideas?

Computer is Athlon 2500+, 512Mb, XP Pro
ASUS A7V8X m/b with Rocket 133S IDE card and GeForce Ti4200 video card
2xDVD drives, 3xHDs

Thanks

08-27-2004, 09:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Trouble resuming from hibernate in WinXP My computer is intermittently failing to resume from hibernate. It's been happening for a while now (weeks) and does not appear to be related to any hardware or driver changes (I don't think there were any until I started having problems). Essentially the computer will go through its progress bar as normal as it loads the data from disc, then the screen briefly goes black before I would expect the login screen to appear. When the problem occurs the screen just remains black. It's not completely dead - num lock/caps lock etc still work, but it's not going anywhere! Rebooting and selecting 'Delete restoration data' boots fine (but obviously loses my state). Attempting to try again to resume gets me back to the black screen. I've removed all unnecessary hardware, updated drivers on the bits that are left, and upgraded WinXP to SP2 since it started happening, but it's still happening on roughly 1 in 2 hibernations. Any ideas? Computer is Athlon 2500+, 512Mb, XP Pro ASUS A7V8X m/b with Rocket 133S IDE card and GeForce Ti4200 video card 2xDVD drives, 3xHDs Thanks __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)