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XP: Hibernation Issues

by Alpesh Nakar

Does this happen with you? You try to put your Windows XP into hibernation and it won’t?

This happens to be a known issue!

Microsoft has documented this failure to hibernate as a known bug. It turns up under the following circumstances:

  1. You’re running Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, or Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
  2. Your computer has more than 1GB of physical memory.
  3. The system’s memory is currently fragmented?meaning that applications have staked out enough physical memory that a large enough contiguous block of free memory to start the hibernation process can’t be reserved. The more memory you have in the system to begin with, the bigger a block of free memory is needed.

Evidently the memory fragmentation issue is the key; many times, hibernation failed after I’d already run a number of other programs. Sometimes I was able to get hibernation to work again after logging off (i.e., after freeing up some of the memory in use), but that didn’t always work either.

Microsoft has a fix for this, ostensibly set to go into the next Service Pack for Windows XP, but if you want to address it now you can call Product Support Services and ask for a free hotfix as referenced in the above article (909095). There’s no charge for this call.

Note: Vista does not suffer from this issue.

 

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Posted in XP on June 22nd, 2007

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