Laptop Hibernate - Power Policy Manager unable to reserve

[PMcCallum50]

I am unable to enable Hibernate - I get an "incorrect funtion" with Power Policy Manager unable to reserve hibernate file - This is on a Dell Laptop running W2K. Any ideas?

 

[iainwatt]

Hi,

Check on how much disk space you have left on the system drive. You need as much disk space left as your total RAM. If you have 512mb of ram you'll need at the very least 512mb of data left on your system drive.

 

[PMcCallum50]

It shows I need 512M and I have available 16,575M available.

 

[iainwatt]

Well I think we can safely say that's not the problem!

Just found this:
Action: Hits hibernate button.

Result: A process is currently running that is preventing another process from going into hibernate.

Cause: Startup group items were preventing hibernate.

Resolution: Performed clean boot of the system by removing all startup group items. Now able to get into hibernate. Rechecking startup group items didn't have any effect on hibernate. It seems that it only affected it when hibernate was disabled.


Sounds like you might have something running that Hibernate does not like!

I'll see what I can find out, anyone else got any ideas?

 

[PMcCallum50]

Thanks for the info so far - the problem is I ca not even enable the Hibernate Feature ... starting in the Control Panel, I go to Power Options, then Hibernate, then Select Enabale Hibernate support and when I press Apply, I then get the error message not allowing me to set it up.

 

[bcastner]

See if there is any help here (be sure to check the links at the bottom of the article):

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q266/1/69.asp&NoWebContent=1