Failure to hibernate

[xtal256]

Recently, my laptop has failed to go into hibernation. It has happened about 3 times in the last 2 weeks and never before then. Once it was because i tried to copy some large files with only 4% battery left (system auto hibernates at 4%). Not a smart thing to do. But then it happened other times too. It goes into standby and when i bring it back a message pops up in the task tray saying "something, something, system API failed, something". Can't remember. But hibernation won't work until i reboot.

This time it was because FF was hanging on an applet which i thought i closed. Can anyone help me with this or at least tell me if there is help on the microsoft website.

thanx

 

EDIT: this guy here seems to have a similar problem. He has almost the same type of laptop as me and he posted recently. someone said it might be a problem with windows updates so hopefully i will get an update to fix it. Mind you, it has only happened once or twice for no reason (i.e not my fault).

Edited February 7, 2008 by Haro

[cold fusion 33]

Try this forum here:

http://www.pchelpforum.com/forum.php

You will probably get better response there.

 

Otherwise, do a virus scan, you may have an infection that is stopping your PC from going into hibernation.

[xtal256]

I followed the advice of the guy in the forum i found and installed a fix from microsoft. Apparently, Windows has trouble sometimes when you have over 1Gb of RAM. I recently (September) upgraded my ram from 512Mb to 1.5Gb so that may be part of the problem. Like i said, it has really only happened once or twice without me doing anything (first time i tried to copy a large amount of files right before it went into hibernation, last time it may have been because FF hung).

Anyway, if it doesn't happen again i will know the fix worked.