message of "hibernate...." appears at startup of Windows Vista Home
Hello and Good Evening Everyone,
Last night, I booted up a friend's laptop for the first time and received the message of "hibernate..." which would not disappear. Consequently, the normal Windows Vista desktop environment along with its icons would never appear. To my pleasant surprise today, I started his laptop up using both, cold and warm boots, and the laptop loaded the Windows Vista desktop environment up just fine without the hibernate message which brings me to an important question. Did the message of "hibernate..." that was noticed last night appear just out of coincidence or is it a sign of a technical issue which needs exploring? At the moment, the laptop is working great and without issues.
With respect to technical specifications of this laptop just in case they are needed, here is a basic run down. The laptop is a Compaq Presario (Model: CQ50-139WM) with an Intel 2.0GHz chip, 2GB of RAM, and running Windows Vista Home Basic Service Pack 1. The hard disk drive has a storage capacity of 150GB with 82.1GB free.
Today, when the laptop was able to load up to the desktop environment successfully, I did notice a menu of options to select from before a full loadup. The menu consisted of the following options: 1. Safe Mode 2. Safe Mode with Networking 3. Safe Mode with Command Prompt Only and 4. Normal Mode. This option does not appear anymore because the operating system loads on through to its desktop environment just fine in both, cold and warm boots.
In closing, any feedback given to this question will be appreciated. At this point, my question is more of a curious one as opposed to one of a technical nature due to the fact that there are not any needed troubleshooting steps required at this time.
I will look forward to reviewing any thoughts regarding the origins of the "hibernate" message within Windows Vista Home.
Thank you
George
Last night, I booted up a friend's laptop for the first time and received the message of "hibernate..." which would not disappear. Consequently, the normal Windows Vista desktop environment along with its icons would never appear. To my pleasant surprise today, I started his laptop up using both, cold and warm boots, and the laptop loaded the Windows Vista desktop environment up just fine without the hibernate message which brings me to an important question. Did the message of "hibernate..." that was noticed last night appear just out of coincidence or is it a sign of a technical issue which needs exploring? At the moment, the laptop is working great and without issues.
With respect to technical specifications of this laptop just in case they are needed, here is a basic run down. The laptop is a Compaq Presario (Model: CQ50-139WM) with an Intel 2.0GHz chip, 2GB of RAM, and running Windows Vista Home Basic Service Pack 1. The hard disk drive has a storage capacity of 150GB with 82.1GB free.
Today, when the laptop was able to load up to the desktop environment successfully, I did notice a menu of options to select from before a full loadup. The menu consisted of the following options: 1. Safe Mode 2. Safe Mode with Networking 3. Safe Mode with Command Prompt Only and 4. Normal Mode. This option does not appear anymore because the operating system loads on through to its desktop environment just fine in both, cold and warm boots.
In closing, any feedback given to this question will be appreciated. At this point, my question is more of a curious one as opposed to one of a technical nature due to the fact that there are not any needed troubleshooting steps required at this time.
I will look forward to reviewing any thoughts regarding the origins of the "hibernate" message within Windows Vista Home.
Thank you
George
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Hello and Good Morning Everyone,
Regarding the hibernate message, I was wondering the same thing. At the time of the hibernation message, the battery was almost fully charged. Last night, I did go ahead and fully charge it at 100%. Today, I will be updating Vista from SP1 to SP2 in addition to running Disk Cleanup.
While I am on the topic of fine tuning this laptop, will a normal Windows Update search for any needed driver updates for the hardware components? Or, will I need to run a third party utility to accomplish this goal?
Thank you.
George
Regarding the hibernate message, I was wondering the same thing. At the time of the hibernation message, the battery was almost fully charged. Last night, I did go ahead and fully charge it at 100%. Today, I will be updating Vista from SP1 to SP2 in addition to running Disk Cleanup.
While I am on the topic of fine tuning this laptop, will a normal Windows Update search for any needed driver updates for the hardware components? Or, will I need to run a third party utility to accomplish this goal?
Thank you.
George
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While I am on the topic of fine tuning this laptop, will a normal Windows Update search for any needed driver updates for the hardware components?
For brand name laptops, the manufacturer's site will have the drivers.
Windows Optional Updates sometimes have drivers and I find them to be legitimate.
Failing all of that, try a third party driver site but be sure it is a top quality site.
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For brand name laptops, the manufacturer's site will have the drivers.
Windows Optional Updates sometimes have drivers and I find them to be legitimate.
Failing all of that, try a third party driver site but be sure it is a top quality site.
... Thinkpads_User
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i posted the manufacturer's driver site , George
How is it going?
How is it going?
George - Thanks and I was happy to help.
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Hello and Good Afternoon Everyone,
Thanks so much for the input shared to this post. I decided to ignore the hibernate error message due to the fact that it only happened once; cleared itself up after restart of the laptop. However, I did go ahead and upgrade the Vista SP1 to Vista SP2 using the Microsoft link of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/service-packs-download#sptabs=vista
I did select the 32-bit version of the SP2 update in order to stay consistent with what was displayed within the System icon of Control Panel in addition to the limited amount of RAM which is 2GB.
On a sidenote, I did experience technical issues with the wireless card which is being worked around using a wireless USB NIC adapter. I am currently waiting to receive it in shipment. Other than that, everything else works just fine.
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and tips.
George
Thanks so much for the input shared to this post. I decided to ignore the hibernate error message due to the fact that it only happened once; cleared itself up after restart of the laptop. However, I did go ahead and upgrade the Vista SP1 to Vista SP2 using the Microsoft link of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/service-packs-download#sptabs=vista
I did select the 32-bit version of the SP2 update in order to stay consistent with what was displayed within the System icon of Control Panel in addition to the limited amount of RAM which is 2GB.
On a sidenote, I did experience technical issues with the wireless card which is being worked around using a wireless USB NIC adapter. I am currently waiting to receive it in shipment. Other than that, everything else works just fine.
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and tips.
George
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Thank you for your quick reply to my question. If it would not be too much to ask, could you provide a direct download link for the SP2?
Please disregard the request for a SP2 of Vista. I found a link to it from a previously closed post.
Thank you
George