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Hibernation option gone?! Unable to hibernate?!
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:43 am
by jamess
I have a very strange problem, which occured i don't know why/when.
Fn + F12 doesn't work anymore, as well as under windows shut down menu - there is no Hibernate option available anymore.
What can I do to fix that? If i go to power manager options and check "Enable hibernation" it simply doesn't work. When i reopen that same settings window, check isn't there anymore...
please help
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:16 am
by jimc
tried "powercfg -h on" in command prompt?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:32 am
by jamess
Yes, i did try that. Without success though
EDIT: Oh no!! Sleep mode gone missing too ?! I can't put my computer to sleep mode neither hibernate?!
EDIT 2: I don't have a clue how this happened as i haven't been installing anything except video driver. I have tried system restore point - but didn't help. I simply don't have hibernate/sleep mode available no more. Sleep mode is a must for me, so i'd really appreciate your help.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:30 pm
by proaudioguy
I lost hibernate as well. I think I deleted the hibernation file during cleanup. The choice for hibernation is nowhere.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:13 pm
by Comage
Under "Control Pane", "Power Options", "Hibernate". Make sure the "enable hibernation" box is checked.
If it is already checked, try to uncheck, reboot, and recheck again.
Sounds like the ACPI drivers are corrupted or missing.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:53 pm
by proaudioguy
Hibernation is not there. This is Vista
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:03 pm
by smvp6459
Does Thinkpad Power Manager for Vista still have the "Global Power Settings" tab? In XP, that tab has a checkbox for "enable hibernation."
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:18 am
by jamess
Although I was sure it could not have been the new video driver... It was! Both hibernation and sleep mode were gone after I've applied the new driver via thinkvantage update.
I removed the driver, reinstalled the original one found in c:/drivers and everything is back to normal. I seriously don't know why it happened, I am just happy it's back to normal again
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:36 am
by zaimek
jamess wrote:Yes, i did try that. Without success though
EDIT: Oh no!! Sleep mode gone missing too ?! I can't put my computer to sleep mode neither hibernate?!
EDIT 2: I don't have a clue how this happened as i haven't been installing anything except video driver. I have tried system restore point - but didn't help. I simply don't have hibernate/sleep mode available no more. Sleep mode is a must for me, so i'd really appreciate your help.
You need to open CMD as an administrator, otherwise it will not work. If u don't have the sleep option as well it might be that you had hybrid sleep (combination of sleep and memory dump) turned on. Since you deleted the hibernation file hybrid sleep will not work too.
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:24 pm
by proaudioguy
jimc wrote:tried "powercfg -h on" in command prompt?
I had restored to a new HD and hibernate was back for several weeks until the other day when I ran system update. I just tried this command line and the option came back. How on earth did you know that command?