kentcrane
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Vista hibernates intermitantly
A few months ago I did a clean Vista Business install on a new hard drive on one of my office computers. I leave the computer on all the time. Occationally, after being on overnight, we will find the computer in hibernation when we arrive in the morning. I have checked to confirm that Vista is not set to go into hibernation at all. I have checked the bios to confirm that it is not set to send the computer into any type of hibernation. It happens intermitantly. To get it out of hibernation, I must hold the on/off button for a few seconds to get the machine to re-boot. After re-boot it takes a long time for the hibernation message to show then another long time for the passwork box to show. Of course, Microsoft telephone technical support was unable to help. This machine is connected to a usb scanner, a usb printer and a usb fax-modem. It is on a small peer-to-peer network. It does not share any of its drives to any other computer on the network but does have access to other drives on the network. How do I prevent Vista from going into hibernation on its own?
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I am sorry but the Microsoft instructions seem a little confusing:
"Hibernation is made unavailable when you set the value of the Hibernate after setting to Never by using the Power Options item in Control Panel. To make hibernation unavailable, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
5. Type exit, and then press ENTER. "
My question is, Which is it? Do I make hibernation unavalable by using the setting in the Control Panel or by going through the steps in the cmd box? Earlier in the article I am warned that if I do it wrong that I may lose data. I am not sure that I want to make hibernation unavalable, I just want to be able to tell my software when to do it and when not to do it. Is that an unreasonable request?
"Hibernation is made unavailable when you set the value of the Hibernate after setting to Never by using the Power Options item in Control Panel. To make hibernation unavailable, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.
5. Type exit, and then press ENTER. "
My question is, Which is it? Do I make hibernation unavalable by using the setting in the Control Panel or by going through the steps in the cmd box? Earlier in the article I am warned that if I do it wrong that I may lose data. I am not sure that I want to make hibernation unavalable, I just want to be able to tell my software when to do it and when not to do it. Is that an unreasonable request?
ASKER
Further, the MS article does not answer the question of why I cannot wake the computer after it has gone into voluntary hibernation. As I originally said, I must re-boot the computer to get it to wake up.
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kentcrane, any feedback?
ASKER
Because the problem is intermittant, I cannot immediately tell whether the solution offered is correct or not but have accepted the answer to close out the question.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;920730
How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows Vista