Hibernation error

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P4 ASUS 1.8G 256mRam winxp/sp2 - Had this set up for nearly two years and computer has hibernated perfectly till now. I will re-format if I have too because as I really like the hibernate feature. But first I will try to fix the problem with someone's help.

Friend told me to first try disabling the hibernate and re-enabling it :
Control Panel > Power Options
Hibernate tab > Untick "Enable Hibernation"
Click OK

To make sure this file is gone -
Click Start > Run > CMD > Type :
del /f /as \hiberfil.sys

Re-booted and Enabled Hibernation and try
hibernation sequence.

Shows it goes into the hibernation.

The problem I get is on re-booting, I get this error message on a black screen:
"Delete Restoration Data & Proceed to System Boot Menu"

Any suggestions please.

 

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Also I have ran SFC /ScanNow successfully with no change.

Doing this I would like to pass on this web-site for anyone having problems running
System File Checker : SFC /ScanNow

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

 

[Slikkster]

You need to schedule a disk check on your drive.

Do this:

Click on the My Computer icon.

Find your C: drive in the listing, and RIGHT CLICK on it. Click on "Properties" in the menu that comes up.

A tabbed box will come up.

Click Tools.

Click the "Check Now" button in the "Error Checking" section.

Click the top checkbox next to "Automatically Fix File System Errors", and then click Start.

You will get a pop up box saying "The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility...blah blah blah". It finally asks "Do you want this disk check to occur the next time you start your computer?" Click Yes.

Shutdown and reboot the pc. It will do a chkdsk operation before finally booting into Windows.

Once that's completed, reset your Hibernation and try it again.

 

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Thanks Slikkster, ran the auto fix and the scan feature with no luck.

Stand by works fine but when coming out of hibernation gets a black screen that reads:

The system could not be restarted from its previous location due to a read failure.

Delete restoration data and proceed to system menu.

Puzzles me, I have two other computers and a laptop and hibernation works fine.

Any further suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Slikkster]

What kinds of USB devices are attached when you go into hibernation? Any flash drives?

Try an experiment and remove them before going into hibernation, then try to come out of hibernation (obviously don't reattach the flash drives until it boots back up again).

 

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I had two camera usb cables connected and no flash drives.
The cables were not connected to anything but removed them
anyway with no difference.
Still puzzles me why this doesn't want to hibernate.
Is Re-format the only answer? Is there anyway of re-installing
windows from the installation disk?

 

[bwatson283]

Your harddrive space has to be Greater or Equal to your Ram! If you have 2gigs of ram, you HAVE to have 2gig harddrive free. When you Hibernate, all your ram gets dumped to the HD.

 

[Slikkster]

To my mind, there's a couple of things you haven't tried yet before the reformat option.

You said this just started happening, right? How about using XP's System Restore and take it back in time before the hibernation problem popped up.

If you do, and it still doesn't work, I would first disable hibernation, then do a defragment process on your hard drive. After the defrag and subsequent reboot, enable hibernation mode again and see how she goes.

 

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Thank all, 526Mg Ram w/40 Gig HD.
Restore wouldn't go back that far, its been a problem for some time now.
Turned off hibernation and defraged the HD. Enabled hibernation and receiver the same error message.

Next

Thanks...

 

[Slikkster]

Let's try something with your Pagefile first. I know it doesn't seem related, but it could be, and worth ruling out. The following will delete your current pagefile, and then recreate it (reboot after this process). Here are the steps:

1. Click Start.
2. Right-click My Computer.
3. Click Properties.
4. On the Advanced tab, in the Performance section, click Settings.
5. In the Virtual Memory section, click Change.
6. For Paging file size for selected drive, click No Paging File, and then click Set.
7. Click Yes after the following warning appears:
If the paging file on volume X: has an initial size of less than xx megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. Continue anyway?

(X is the drive letter and xx is the amount of RAM installed on your computer minus 1 megabyte.)
8. Click System Managed Size.
9. Click OK four times, and then restart the computer when you are prompted.

Now, once you've done that (and rebooted), try hibernation again. Still no good? Then I've got something else up my sleeve. There's a "Run" command that will stop and exit all background processes. It's useful for you to run this command before hibernating to ensure that XP is done with all its background tasks before going into hibernation. Once you run this command, you can tell when it's done when the hourglass on the mouse cursor goes away.

See what I'm getting at? It's possible that XP is trying to hibernate at the same time that processes are still running, which could cause corruption. So, do this:

Click Start. Click Run. Copy/paste the following and click OK:

rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

You should see the mouse cursor add an hourglass for a few seconds as XP stops its background processes. Once that's done, try to hibernate and then try to come back out of hibernation.

Try the pagefile recreate first (with subsequent rebooting) above.

One last thing, please post your exact model motherboard from Asus!

 

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Ran everything without change, except items 8 & 9. I couldn't see the "System Managed Size" button.

Copied and pasted the "rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" also without change.

Didn't understand this line: Try the pagefile recreate first (with subsequent rebooting) above.

ASUS P4PE 1.7Gig, 256Mg ram, 40 Gig HD.

Appreciate all your help...

 

[Slikkster]

That's odd that you couldn't see the "System Managed Size" button. I have XP SP2, and it's clearly there on mine.

Take a look at this pdf file. Scroll to page 19 of 24. Zoom in with your Adobe reader if need be to see the photos more clearly. The photo on the right side of this page is what you should be looking at for managing your pagefile (aka virtual memory). See the "System Managed Size" button now?

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/34/07645582/0764558234.pdf

The only thing I meant by the statement you didn't understand was to try recreating your pagefile first by going through the process I outlined, and THEN, if that didn't work, try the second option, which is the Run command outlined above.

Sounds like you might not have actually recreated your pagefile (virtual memory), so please go back through that process again by using the pdf file pic as a guide (ignore the actual settings that are in the pic; I just wanted you to see what the applet is supposed to look like).

Edit: You mentioned this problem has been going on for some time. Can you recall what changed to prompt this issue? Did you add a piece of hardware into the pc?

Also, please check your "Event Viewer" for errors and warnings.

Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer. Look at both the System and Application logs. You are primarily looking for Red icons, but Yellow icons can be significant, too. Please list the error messages you see for these red/yellow icon'ed headings in these logs.

 

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Thanks for you help slikkster
The event viewer lead me to this message then clicking on web help showed me the next message.
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D
This problem is typically caused by a failing cable that connects the drive to the computer.
Replaced the ribbon cable to hd cured the problem.
Now operating normally.
Again, many thanks...

 

[Slikkster]

Hey, congrats. Glad it worked out for you, and happy to help.