Upgrading RAM in a notebook - oops

[Zap]

Note to self - don't upgrade RAM in a notebook while it is in hibernate. Won't be able to boot up from the stored session - have to delete and then boot up normally, and anything not saved will be gone. Well, nothing lost for me except an extra couple of minutes while Windows tried to resume from hibernate and couldn't. It rebooted and asked if I wanted to try again or delete it and boot normally.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Heh. I did the same with a virtual server the other day at work.

512MB -> 1GB = Whoops.

- M4H

 

[AlgaeEater]

Happens to the best of us.

I tend to disable hibernate alltogether now a days use to many acidents leaving the laptop on hibernate. Now I just simply shut down and startup.

 

[ImStockHappy]

errrr dont u read the packaging... i went to best buy like 2 weeks ago and i took a look at a 1gig stick and i still remeber wat it said on th back "turn off comp then stick it in"

 

[Zap]

Hybernate IS off. It writes the contents of your RAM to the HDD. Then, when you boot, Windows does not have to start up and initialize all drivers and such - basically just dump contents back into RAM (I'm sure there's more to it, but that's how I understand it). Well, when it tries to do that and the RAM size is different, "Houston we have a problem."

I usually don't have an issue with Hibernate except that the Intel Wireless card doesn't want to wake up.

 

[goldkirby]

Originally posted by: Zap
Hybernate IS off. It writes the contents of your RAM to the HDD. Then, when you boot, Windows does not have to start up and initialize all drivers and such - basically just dump contents back into RAM (I'm sure there's more to it, but that's how I understand it). Well, when it tries to do that and the RAM size is different, "Houston we have a problem."

I usually don't have an issue with Hibernate except that the Intel Wireless card doesn't want to wake up.

qft.