Alex Moore
December 8th 03, 08:49 PM
I am having problems with putting my computer into
hibernation mode. This used to work just fine, until I
recently installed an Adaptec 1210SA Serial-ATA RAID
adapter and transfered my operating system partition on a
new RAID 0 array connected to the serial-ATA card
(previously the operating system was on a different RAID 0
array which was connected directly to the motherboard's
onboard Promise Fasttrack Lite RAID adapter).
Now whenever I try to enter hibernation, the system
appears to go about shutting down devices, the monitor
turns off briefly, and then everything comes back to life
again and I see the windows desktop once more but with an
error message in the system tray. The error message
says: "Windows - System Error. Insufficient system
resources exist to complete the API."
My best guess as to why this is happening is that Windows
XP disables the serial-ATA adapter card too soon and then
discovers afterwards that when it wants to write to the
hiberfil.sys file it can't do so. I am aware that
apparently this error can be seen if there is not enough
space on the system partition for the hyberil.sys file,
but I have over 10 GB free there and my hiberfil.sys needs
only 1 GB, so I assume that rather than not having enough
space, it is actually unable to see the hard drive at all
at that time.
If my guess at the problem is correct - is there a way to
fix this? I would imagine I should be looking for
somewhere, perhaps in the registry, that determines the
order in which devices are disabled during the hibernation
process? Or perhaps it requires a motherboard BIOS setting
relating to power management features and PCI devices (btw
my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7DXR)?
I'm sure there must be other users out there whose Windows
system drive is not connected to one of the motherboard's
onboard IDE connectors.
Any help in finding a solution is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex
hibernation mode. This used to work just fine, until I
recently installed an Adaptec 1210SA Serial-ATA RAID
adapter and transfered my operating system partition on a
new RAID 0 array connected to the serial-ATA card
(previously the operating system was on a different RAID 0
array which was connected directly to the motherboard's
onboard Promise Fasttrack Lite RAID adapter).
Now whenever I try to enter hibernation, the system
appears to go about shutting down devices, the monitor
turns off briefly, and then everything comes back to life
again and I see the windows desktop once more but with an
error message in the system tray. The error message
says: "Windows - System Error. Insufficient system
resources exist to complete the API."
My best guess as to why this is happening is that Windows
XP disables the serial-ATA adapter card too soon and then
discovers afterwards that when it wants to write to the
hiberfil.sys file it can't do so. I am aware that
apparently this error can be seen if there is not enough
space on the system partition for the hyberil.sys file,
but I have over 10 GB free there and my hiberfil.sys needs
only 1 GB, so I assume that rather than not having enough
space, it is actually unable to see the hard drive at all
at that time.
If my guess at the problem is correct - is there a way to
fix this? I would imagine I should be looking for
somewhere, perhaps in the registry, that determines the
order in which devices are disabled during the hibernation
process? Or perhaps it requires a motherboard BIOS setting
relating to power management features and PCI devices (btw
my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7DXR)?
I'm sure there must be other users out there whose Windows
system drive is not connected to one of the motherboard's
onboard IDE connectors.
Any help in finding a solution is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex