On Monday, July 16, 2012 3:02:29 AM UTC, Paul wrote:
Industrial One wrote:
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> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 8:36:57 PM UTC, Paul wrote:
>> Industrial One wrote:
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>> > Yeah I've tried everything and nothing is working. Tried to
>> > boot up with all services and startup disabled as well.
>> > What could it be?
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>> Have you looked in Event Viewer ?
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>> Any error message recorded in there ?
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>> Paul
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> No, just "The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service entered the running state."

I don't know where else to look for error messages.

"How to troubleshoot hibernation and standby issues in Windows XP"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907477

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The SATA interface, has some power state info. This isn't consistent
with your problem, but it's about the only thing I can think of,
other than a disk problem of some sort, that might explain it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...hipm-dipm.html

One similar to HIPM/DIPM is LPMDSTATE, which is something used on
Intel storage interfaces.

I'd want the disk interface to *not* have power states, but
to just keep running until shutdown. That way, less can go wrong.

But an issue with one of those, is just grasping at straws. If a
power state error occurred, you'd think there would be a dialog of
some sort, with an error number. The idea would be, you lose
communications with the drive, and some disk operation times out.
If that drive was also the place storing "Events", perhaps there'd
be no log either. I wonder if it's possible to move the
hiberfil.sys to another disk ?

Paul

That second link you sent appears to be for Win7. The XP hibernation troubleshooting guide doesn't seem to have anything relevant to my case.

I tried installing a new WinXP on a seperate partition and the hibernate tab was not there at all. I also tried installing on a VM and got the same thing. Trying to do powercfg /h on returned a "not supported by your system" error. Wtf?

All this because I got a new HDD? Can't be, because why would the VM fail?