Hibernation Error [XP PRO SP2]

[BehindEnemyLines]

I have had this error appeared twice on me, and it's something that I have never seen.

When I try to hibernate, I get this error message from the System Notification tray (clock area). It's a rather weird and cryptic error message and the hibernation aborts. The Hibernation button disappears as well (when you press down the Shift key in shutdown). The hibernation tab in Power Control also disappears. A shutdown or restart is required to fix it.

Windows - System Error

Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API.

What can it be?

 

[Nothinman]

I would guess that it's a memory issue, try quitting some apps and seeing if it hibernates.

 

[MrChad]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095

 

[Nothinman]

Wow, I can't believe that they really disable hibernation just because of one memory allocation failure. And it's pretty bad that they require physically contiguous memory for hibernation which just makes the allocation failure a lot more likely.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Wow, I can't believe that they really disable hibernation just because of one memory allocation failure. And it's pretty bad that they require physically contiguous memory for hibernation which just makes the allocation failure a lot more likely.

I used to get the error all the time on my Dell Inspiron 9400 (Core Duo, 2 GB RAM). My new machine (Latitude D620, Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM) doesn't seem to have any trouble hibernating, however.

 

[Nothinman]

I used to get the error all the time on my Dell Inspiron 9400 (Core Duo, 2 GB RAM). My new machine (Latitude D620, Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM) doesn't seem to have any trouble hibernating, however.

Back when my old notebook (Inspiron something or other) with 1G of memory had XP on it I got that too if FF was open but it would hibernate fine once FF was closed. And I don't think it even mattered what FF was doing, I vaguely remember it happening with an empty browser window too.