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I cannot hibernate windows. When I click "hibernate", my laptop(windows) just locks and the screen goes black. I can unlock without any problem. I do not have any problem with other options such as "sleep" or "shut down". I updated the chipset drivers but it did not help. There is not any option in BIOS about the sleep modes. "Hibernate" is "on" on Windows. Any advice?

My Laptop specifications: MSI A5000 3gb system memory, Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit installed, Gentoo linux installed, Grub bootloader(MBR).

Hard drive: Around 4gb of free space in windows partition.

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@goygoycu some motherboards are not compatible with windows hibernate feature but are compatible with the other windows states (sleep, shut down, etc) – Patrick Mar 15 '11 at 15:22
What @Patrick said. Also some specific devices, especially if the drivers are poorly written, can keep a machine from hibernating or sleeping. – Shinrai Mar 15 '11 at 16:02
I purchased an ssd. I will do a fresh install. I am also thinking that a BIOS update might cause this problem. I flashed it with a modified BIOS which enables overclocking. I can overclock it from 1.8Ghz to 2.5Ghz, I can change the shared video memory size, I can change memory timings... it is a $350 celeron machine. But I did not know that with the old BIOS, it was hibernating properly. I will not switch back to the older BIOS, will try a fresh install. Thank you all. – delete_this_account Mar 15 '11 at 23:02
Is it possible the space on your drive is not enough to accommodate a hiberfil.sys file the size that would be needed? – datatoo Jun 17 '11 at 19:56
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Maybe it's a problem with drivers for a device. I had the same problem with my laptop, and found out that when I switched to the older drivers fixed the problem

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Maybe you can try to disable and enable again the hibernation : look at the microsoft page on the subject.

I don't think the hibernation process need specific driver since it just write the memory to a file and read it a boot. So it's just a matter of how windows shutdown and start itself, but maybe you can look at video card driver to be sure.

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