Resume from Hibernate doesn't work?

[adrianq]

I've been using my wife's X40 - lovely machine. 1.2 / 512Mb / 40gig

I've noticed that sometimes it takes ages to resume from hibernate - as in over 5 MINUTES.

During this time the progress bar moves along the bottom till the end of the screen, but nothing else happens for ages. Occasionally the hard drive LED flashes. Sometimes if I press the power button for a few seconds during this time, it comes out of hibernate immediately, and shows the shutdown menu options.

Sometimes it never comes back - and I need to hold down the power button to shut it off.

If I disable hibernate and then restart and then turn it back on again, all seems to be well. But after a few hibernates, the problem starts again.

Not sure, but it seems to be more likely to happen if I leave it hibernated for a long time.

Emailed IBM tech support and they just suggested I update my BIOS and all drivers, which I'd already done.

My wife doesn't bother to use hibernate anymore, because it hasn't been working.

Would really appreciate some help on this.

[devilsrejection]

redo windows?

[adrianq]

any quick way to tell if this is a windows problem or a hardware issue?

Is your suggestion to reinstall windows fresh or just to run the recovery discs and install all the preloaded software?

[verktyg]

Have you called IBM Tech Support?

Have you tried reinstalling the Hibernation Utility program? Also there is an IBM Power Management update.