WinXP SP2 - Cannot hibernate

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Hello,

I am using IBM T42 laptop computer, Windows XP Professional + Service Pack
2, 1.5G Memory, 3G free disk space.

Sometimes when I try to hibernate (One of 3 tries) I get the following
message:
Application popup: Windows - System Error : Insufficient system resources
exist to complete the API.

Can anyone help?

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

[Akash from South Africa]

From past experience, I understand that you may need twice the physical
amount of memory of your RAM and then take into account temp files and the
number of applications you have opened - If you have 1.5 GB of RAM then 3GB
of free space may not be enough.
I hope this helps. - Regards.

"msnews.microsoft.com" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using IBM T42 laptop computer, Windows XP Professional + Service Pack
> 2, 1.5G Memory, 3G free disk space.
>
> Sometimes when I try to hibernate (One of 3 tries) I get the following
> message:
> Application popup: Windows - System Error : Insufficient system resources
> exist to complete the API.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Best Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
>
>
>

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Thank you Akash,

But the hibernate file always exists on the %SystemDrive% at %RAMSIZE% size
so that disk space will not be an issue when trying to hibernate.
Anyway... I also tried to free disk space... and it still does not work.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

"Akash from South Africa" > wrote in message
...
> From past experience, I understand that you may need twice the physical
> amount of memory of your RAM and then take into account temp files and the
> number of applications you have opened - If you have 1.5 GB of RAM then
> 3GB
> of free space may not be enough.
> I hope this helps. - Regards.
>
> "msnews.microsoft.com" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using IBM T42 laptop computer, Windows XP Professional + Service
>> Pack
>> 2, 1.5G Memory, 3G free disk space.
>>
>> Sometimes when I try to hibernate (One of 3 tries) I get the following
>> message:
>> Application popup: Windows - System Error : Insufficient system resources
>> exist to complete the API.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Alon Bar-Lev.
>>
>>
>>

[Alex Nichol]

Akash from South Africa wrote:

>From past experience, I understand that you may need twice the physical
>amount of memory of your RAM and then take into account temp files and the
>number of applications you have opened - If you have 1.5 GB of RAM then 3GB
>of free space may not be enough.
>I hope this helps. - Regards.

No. Hibernation copies the content of RAM into the hiberfil.sys file,
of that size. Other matters are (maybe) in the page file, which is
already there and left untouched by hibernation.

But there are devices that do not reinitialise properly after
hibernation, so it does not work. *If* the drivers for these get
recognised, hibernation will not get offered in the first place


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Thank you Alex,

I cannot explain why some times it works and some times it does not, and
that there are no other details in the eventlog except of the strange popup:
"Application popup: Windows - System Error : Insufficient system resources
exist to complete the API."

Do you know any way to get some more details and see if this is happening
because of a device driver?
As time progress, it seems that there is a problem for Windows XP to handle
more than 1G of memory...

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> Akash from South Africa wrote:
>
>>From past experience, I understand that you may need twice the physical
>>amount of memory of your RAM and then take into account temp files and the
>>number of applications you have opened - If you have 1.5 GB of RAM then
>>3GB
>>of free space may not be enough.
>>I hope this helps. - Regards.
>
> No. Hibernation copies the content of RAM into the hiberfil.sys file,
> of that size. Other matters are (maybe) in the page file, which is
> already there and left untouched by hibernation.
>
> But there are devices that do not reinitialise properly after
> hibernation, so it does not work. *If* the drivers for these get
> recognised, hibernation will not get offered in the first place
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)