X31 with 2GB RAM and Windows 2000 VERY SLOW Hibernation

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brosen · #1 Post by **brosen** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:49 pm

There is a way to make the Hibernation process faster in Windows 2000 ?, I have an X31 with Windows 2000 and 2GB RAM, so the Hibernation process is VERY SLOW, please your help or recomendation, thanks

#2 Post by **K. Eng** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:11 pm

I'm afraid there's probably not much to be done. Hibernation copies RAM to HDD before powerdown to preserve the state of the machine. 2 GB will take awhile to copy no matter how you look at it.

I played around iwth my own T40 by taking out 256 MB of RAM and hibernation was much faster. However, I'd rather have 512 MB, so I just deal with it.

Is there any reason you can't use standby mode?

brosen · #3 Post by **brosen** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:16 pm

Standby uses Battery power, Hibernation does not use battery at all

Txiasaeia · #4 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:34 pm

brosen wrote:Standby uses Battery power, Hibernation does not use battery at all

But isn't only like 1% per hour? I mean, you could be on standby for a whole day and still have 3 1/2 hours of battery time left (assuming 4 1/2 hours total amt of battery life); as long as you plug in your notebook every night, isn't that enough?

Diff · #5 Post by **Diff** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:12 am

I think this is only disadvantage in Windows 2000

No other way can help, except going to Windows XP - it uses only half of Windows 2000 hibernating time.

Actually, I always use Windows 2000 because of the stability. I never rely on Windows XP until its SP2 released. Just give it a try.

roibm · #6 Post by **roibm** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:35 am

I have XP with SP2 and only 1.5Gb RAM and can confirm the hibernation is slow when there's lots of data in the memory.
As about relying on win, regardless of it's version, SP, hot fixes etc. that's the biggest mistake ever.

Diff · #7 Post by **Diff** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:56 am

roibm wrote:I have XP with SP2 and only 1.5Gb RAM and can confirm the hibernation is slow when there's lots of data in the memory.
As about relying on win, regardless of it's version, SP, hot fixes etc. that's the biggest mistake ever.

roibm,

Every machine with a large amount of RAM, like yours, must take time for hibernation. But for my opinion, I showed the difference between Win2k and WinXP

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Also the WinXP SP2, I meant it's somewhat reliable and comparable to Win2k, maybe SP2 or SP3.

YukYukLee · #8 Post by **YukYukLee** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:47 am

u should take out 1gig, 1gig for a laptop is good 2gig is just over the limit even thou u think it will help your laptop its just slows it down

X31 with 2GB RAM and Windows 2000 VERY SLOW Hibernation

X31 with 2GB RAM and Windows 2000 VERY SLOW Hibernation

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