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Resolved Hibernate mode suddenly stopped working

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by rogerbid, 2011/05/30.

  1. 2011/05/30
    rogerbid

    rogerbid Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Please can someone help me with the Hibernate function in Windows 7.

    Many months ago I spent countless hours trying to troubleshoot the Hibernate/Sleep function on Windows 7 and eventually gave up. I subsequently had to reinstall Windows 7 on a reformatted drive and to my amazement from that day on the Hibernate function has worked

    It has continued without major problems until 48 hours ago. Because of the past problems, I have routinely made manual restore points at regular intervals and whenever the Hibernate mode faltered I have been able to wind back to a working state.

    One thing which has regularly messed with the Hibernate function has been a program called LP Recorder, for recording vinyl LPs. Having some LPs to record on Saturday evening I created a Restore Point prior to starting. Yesterday, after all the LPs were transferred to CD, I restored to Saturday's Restore Point but this time I have not restored the Hibernate function. Worse still is the fact that all my previous Restore Points have vanished without a trace.

    Since I worked on the LPs, I have not made any other changes to the system I am running, no programs have been installed or removed, in fact I have really not done a lot on the computer.

    Can someone please suggest a possible solution, or explain the apparent connection between a program that records on the Line In jack and the Hibernate function? In my own mind I am totally convinced there is a connection, the problems that have occurred have almost always followed the use of such a program, but I do not have the knowledge to understand how this can be!


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    Thanks for any suggestions,

    best wishes,

    Roger
     
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  2. 2011/05/30
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Windows Search 4 is not applicable to Windows 7 - it went out with Vista.
    Disable Hibernation and set the computer to do what you want under Power Options.

    Many moons ago when we had a Microsoft 'code monkey' on the BBS who explained exactly what hibernation involved and the minor miracle which occurred if/when the computer came out of hibernation :)

    I have always turned the feature off in all OS's in which it was available.

    My take on hibernation - others will clearly have different views.
     
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    Arie

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    Run this command from an elevated command prompt: powercfg -h off followed by powercfg -h on.

    No idea if it will work, what it does is that it will delete the current hiberfil.sys file and subsequently re-create it.
     
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    rogerbid Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi and thanks for your replies.

    PeteC, I will try that. You say you have always turned the feature off - do you mean you have just turned off hibernation and relied on Sleep instead, or abandoned both functions?

    Arie - thanks for your suggestion, which I will try.

    I will write again with news of how I get on,

    best regards,

    Roger
     
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  6. 2011/05/31
    PeteC

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    I have abandoned both functions and only allow the monitor to go into standby.
     
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    Mmmm I might end up doing the same thing if I cannot find a solution.

    Thanks for your help,

    Roger
     
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  8. 2011/06/05
    rogerbid

    rogerbid Inactive Thread Starter

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    Problem with Hibernate/Sleep in Windows 7 - RESOLVED

    Hi and a big thanks to everyone who has responded.

    After a tiresome and frustrating weekend, trying all i know and following the advice offered here, i have finally hit upon the solution to my problem.

    In my original post, I mentioned the problem arose after I had recorded vinyl albums to CD. I was firmly convinced that the program (LPRecorder) was in some way to blame for the failure of the Hibernate mode.

    Well, after running powercfg -energy in cmd.exe, one of the errors listed was:

    <HTML><META HTTP-EQUIV= "content-type" CONTENT= "text/html;charset=utf-8 ">
    <p class=log-entry-header>System Availability Requests:System Required
    Request</DIV>
    <p class=log-entry-content>
    <p class=log-entry-description>The device or driver has made a request to
    prevent the system from automatically entering sleep.</DIV>
    <TABLE>
    <TBODY>
    <TR>
    <TD><SPAN class=detail-name>Requesting Driver Instance</SPAN></TD>
    <TD>HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&amp;VEN_10EC&amp;DEV_0888&amp;SUBSYS_104382FE&amp;REV_1001\4&amp;22ba60&amp;0&amp;0001</TD></TR>
    <TR>
    <TD><SPAN class=detail-name>Requesting Driver Device</SPAN></TD>
    <TD>High Definition Audio Device</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>​

    When I saw High Definition Audio Device I racked my brains to recall exactly what changes I had made there when recording the LPs. Then I remembered that I had ticked a box to allow me to hear the audio from the Line In. I went back to untick that box and rebooted. I then reset the power settings to let the PC sleep and lo and behold it worked again.

    I nearly came undone when, to verify that this tick was the offending item, I ticked it again and sure enough Hibernate function failed again. The problem was that after unticking it again, the function did not restore.... However, after a bit of fiddling around and rebooting, it did again and it is now seemingly OK.

    I hope this solution is a help to others who come to this post looking for assistance,

    Thanks again to all who replied,

    Roger
     
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  9. 2011/06/05
    PeteC

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    Great bit of sleuthing there - well done :)

    Please mark this thread as 'Resolved', see .....
     
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