T23 Slow To Hibernate

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jamiphar · #1 Post by **jamiphar** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:09 am

Lately, I've been having a problem with how long my T23 takes to hibernate. I just timed it and it took nearly a minute, and it used to just take a few seconds. It seemed to have gotten slower after I had installed a number of programs a week or two ago.

Does anybody know why this would be happening?

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:27 am

You still have 768MB of memory in the T23 or have you increased it? What programs are loaded at the time you are hibernating? How many processes are running?

I'm using a T23 1.2G with 1GB of memory, Windows XP Pro, Firefox opened with four or five tabs, Norton AV 2002 and a wireless utility (34 processes total), it takes about 12 seconds to enter or exit hibernation.

jamiphar · #3 Post by **jamiphar** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:18 am

rkawakami wrote:You still have 768MB of memory in the T23 or have you increased it? What programs are loaded at the time you are hibernating? How many processes are running?

I'm using a T23 1.2G with 1GB of memory, Windows XP Pro, Firefox opened with four or five tabs, Norton AV 2002 and a wireless utility (34 processes total), it takes about 12 seconds to enter or exit hibernation.

Yeah, I still have 768mb in it. When I timed how long it took, I had no programs loaded (it was about 30 seconds after a reboot) and 41 processes running.

This used to hibernate very quickly even if I had a few programs open.

christopher_wolf · #4 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:26 pm

Well, what are the programs that you installed on it?

You could try BootVis as it will time and log the loading/unloading of drivers and services during a suspend, hibernate, boot, or a shut down.

jamiphar · #5 Post by **jamiphar** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:01 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:Well, what are the programs that you installed on it?

You could try BootVis as it will time and log the loading/unloading of drivers and services during a suspend, hibernate, boot, or a shut down.

Let's see...I've installed Avid Xpress Pro, Vegas Video, PhotoDraw, FrontPage, Adobe Reader 8.0, Firefox 2, Thunderbird, WinDVD, RecordNow, Winamp, Quicktime, CDex, Cacheman, CA Anti-Virus, GetRight, CPU-Z, RegScrubXP, Audiograbber, and now BootVis.

Ok, I've installed BootVis and had it go through a hibernate cycle. It shows all of the stats and drivers loaded and all, but under Disk I/O it says "Warning! Disk write caching is disabled."

Could I have somehow disabled the cache? I've recently updated the ATA Controller drivers, I wonder if that could have anything to do with it.

ambientscape · #6 Post by **ambientscape** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:00 pm

I'm having the same problem.....I think it is caused by the ATA controller.....Ive updated recently. The hibernating time takes longer than usual....

Musti · #7 Post by **Musti** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:33 pm

jamiphar wrote:Ok, I've installed BootVis and had it go through a hibernate cycle. It shows all of the stats and drivers loaded and all, but under Disk I/O it says "Warning! Disk write caching is disabled."

Could I have somehow disabled the cache? I've recently updated the ATA Controller drivers, I wonder if that could have anything to do with it.

I think that is a BootVis bug, as I remember seeing it while my write caching was enabled.

Open up Device Manager,
expand Disk Drives,
double click on the entry corresponding to your hard drive,
click the Policies tab, you should see that Write Caching is enabled (and no way to change the default Enabled, as selections should be greyed out).

jamiphar · #8 Post by **jamiphar** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:46 pm

Musti wrote:...you should see that Write Caching is enabled (and no way to change the default Enabled, as selections should be greyed out).

Ok, that's how it is for me.

x3ss · #9 Post by **x3ss** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:56 pm

hey guys i think i got it... i was haveing the same problem [hibernating took near 60 seconds] and i uninstalled Intel Applicaton Accelerator and now it takes only about 20 sec.

hooray!

PS: now i have the drivers that came with windows standard Microsoft 2001 IDE driver.

jamiphar · #10 Post by **jamiphar** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:52 pm

x3ss wrote:hey guys i think i got it... i was haveing the same problem [hibernating took near 60 seconds] and i uninstalled Intel Applicaton Accelerator and now it takes only about 20 sec.

hooray!

PS: now i have the drivers that came with windows standard Microsoft 2001 IDE driver.

Like you say, hooray!

I wasn't able to uninstall the driver, but I was able to select the Windows drivers and it's a lot faster now.

I wonder why the newer drivers would slow it down.

Thanks!

Musti · #11 Post by **Musti** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:17 pm

Strange...two reports so far. Let me update the original forum thread with these.

T23 Slow To Hibernate

T23 Slow To Hibernate

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