March 27th 10, 11:03 PM
posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
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WIA and hibernation again
William B. Lurie wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
If I understand correctly, you have the machine set to hibernate
after 2 hours of inactivity but it can't enter the hibernation
state because something keeps it awake...
This is what I would try:
Reboot the machine and don't do anything whatsoever after it
boots, leave it alone for the time set for hibernation and see if
it does hibernate.
If it doesn't hibernate I would then try a clean boot and once
again not touch the machine for the set time and see if it does
hibernate.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" state
John
John, I followed instructions. Touched NOTHING for 4 hours
(hibernate set at 2). Power-on light on tower was flashing
and it never went to hibernate. I'll read the Clean Boot instructions
again. Last time I thought it was quite an effort, but this is
this time. Maybe this evening.
I took another small step, John. I like to try new things on my Clone
system before I take a chance with my Main Drive......so I printed
out KB310353 and followed its Method 2 on my clone system. It was very
easy, and I did it and immediately went away for 2-3/4 hours ......and
when I returned, the power light on my tower was blinking, the screen
was on, and was not even in Screen Saver mode, which to me means that
some Event occurred. It goes to Screen Saver at 10 minutes. I undid the
msconfig changes and returned here, to my Master Drive.
So I would judge that Clean Boot didn't show any difference. What's
your next advice?
Take a look in the Event Viewer and see if anything relevant is
logged. Check the log on the clone too.
John
The scene changes again, John. I just heard from Symantec, that Norton
AntiVirus does do Idle Time Scan. I had it set for "Quarterly" so it
should not have interfered. But with their help, I reset it to *never*
and maybe that will be the answer. I can live with no idle time scans.
So put my other testing on hold while I find out if hibernate now
works right.
Three hours later. At 8:55 I set Idle Scan at Never, rebooted,
and went away. Three hours later, it had not gone into hibernation,
and Events Log showed *no* events in that period, but was
obviously alive and recording things. I am of the opinion that
Norton Anti-Virus is not the source of the problem. And I'm not about
to change horses and use MSE (as Unk just suggested). There has to
be a reason why it doesn't hibernate after 2 hours, and the events
log doesn't show it.
I'm going back to Clone, Disable Norton, do a Clean Boot, and let 3
hours go by, and look at Events Log as you suggested, John. I won't
be back on until 1600 EDT.
I didn't do it right, and will do it again later this evening. Sorry.
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