Hibernation broken (Win 7)

Hi Folks,

A couple months ago, my T400 stopped being able to hibernate. Now, when I try to hibernate, the screen goes blanks, the hard drive cranks for 10-15 seconds, and I get the login screen again (with all my programs still running, etc). It's as if I locked my screen.

I was messing around with services and stuff when this first happened (turning things off I didn't think I needed), but I don't think that's what caused the problem. I have since restored my services to their default states, but the problem persists. I have tried disabling and re-enabling hibernation, and deleting the hiberfil.sys file, all to no avail. There are no logs in the event viewer which indicate anything wrong relating to hibernation. I have made sure that Wake on LAN is turned off in the BIOS, as well as on all network devices in the device manager. I have no USB devices plugged in. The problem persists with clean booting (i.e. no startup programs, only microsoft services). Sleeping works just fine. No restore point is available from prior to when the problem started.

Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas on what I might do?

Thanks,
Allie

Win 7 Pro x64
Thinkpad T400 2764-CTO
ATI Mobility Radeon 2450
6 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
fully updated

 

Thanks for the reply, Halo. Turning off sleep doesn't help, and hybrid sleep is turned off as well. When re-enabling services, I ran a script generated before changing all my services to re-enable them to their original state - so everything *should* be ok. When modifying in the first place, I used SMART Services Config. Not sure how to check that all dependencies in the services are fulfilled...

 

JOY TO THE WORLD! I ran some random stuff I found about a similar problem in Vista, and, BANG! It works. Holy crap.

See http://social.technet.microsoft.com.../thread/4d74523f-2b9e-4fe7-9b5e-f0153166adcc/ for the full ref, but in a nutshell:

First I ran disk partition to assign a drive letter to win 7's hidden partition, then I ran the following (thanks to darrell gorter):
1. Run CMD.EXE as administrator
2. Run the following command: bcdedit -enum all
Look for "Resume from Hibernate" in the output from the command above(example below):
Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Vista (TM) Enterprise (recovered)
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filedevice partition=C:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae Yes
debugoptionenabled No
3. Once you have found it, copy the value for identifier (in this example - {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963})
4. Run the following command: bcdedit /deletevalue {3d8d3081-33ac-11dc-9a41-806e6f6e6963} inherit
5. Test hibernation

I have NO IDEA what BCD stores are. I can't believe this worked.

 

Aargh! Wait!

Turns out the BCDedit stuff *wasn't* the fix! The fix is assigning a drive letter to my hidden partition! This ties in with some other problems I've been having, I think: my machine is having trouble assigning drive letters to some USB devices (http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-...ning-drive-letters-usb-drives.html#post878813), and when I hit F8 on startup, I don't get the safe boot menu (i just get a key stuck error).

So: any ideas now? Seems like windows is having trouble accessing certain volumes, or something like that? argh!

 

looks like at least one other person has had the same problem, without resolution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/aa5a9a17-7fb1-4ff3-9a9e-0b90f9880ee0

 

Just curious, and maybe I missed it, but have you tried booting to the Recovery Console and running sfc /scannow from the command prompt?

 

@plodr: thanks for the effort, but i don't think you read the thread above. This ain't a keyboard problem, though i do appreciate your input.

 

Umm did you see my post about running system file checker?

Also, if you can boot into Windows you can do a repair install without losing your stuff. Let me know

 

@motc7: yeah, sorry. I posted a reply, but seems that it somehow got deleted (that's the post that plodr was quoting from). Anyway, yes, I ran sfc /scannow from the command prompt, and it didn't find any errors.

I'm not very familiar with recovery options, but it seems that the recovery console went the way of the dodos after XP. Not sure if there's some other place I should be running it from.

I'm not familiar with the repair install - i'll look into what it does, what it trashes, etc. However, given that I have a pretty specific problem now (I can reproduce it, and I know what fixes it), I feel like I'm getting closer to a solution. So if repair install is kind of a nuclear bomb type approach, I'll probably steer clear for now. We'll see.

Thanks for the continued support!

So: Any other ideas? Hibernation broken, assigning drive letter to hidden partition fixes it. Can't get F8 boot menu. Diagnosis anyone?

 

Windows 7 sure isn't my daddies Windows. The hidden partition isn't supposed to have a drive letter assigned to it, although you should now be able to access it. BCDEdit Command line options here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx
You might try EasyBCD to help with your problem. Glad I don't use the hibernation option, and it was easier to deal with in XP via the GUI (Control Panel/Power Options). I also ask, if it isn't used on a computer I am using, if I can disable it.:innocent Hope you get it worked out to your satisfaction.

 

Check your pm box for a possible solution on the Windows Repair Install for 7.

 

@bugballou: running easybcd, i get the following error message (the same one i get when running bcdedit): "The boot configuration store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified."

There's something wrong with the hidden partition, I'm just not sure what it is, or how to debug it.

 

Reinstalled chipset, video and wifi - no joy. I figured out the F8 key problem was due to my hitting the key too early - doesn't seem like it's a real problem.

I'm stumped.

 

update: running the following command and setting my C: partition to Active allows my machine to hibernate: bcdboot c:\windows /s c:

I then assigned the hidden partition to E:, ran bcdboot c:\windows /s e:, and rebooted. The same old problem as it always was. bcdedit isn't able to locate the bcd store (it *is* able to locate it when i put it on the c: drive).


There is a report from someone else who was never really able to repair his bcd file:

* "I had a problem with hibernation restarting my computer, and finally figured out that there is a problem with your BCD (Boot Configuration Data Store) in the boot folder (ex: C:\boot\bcd). Most likely its a problem with the "Resume from Hibernate" section of the BCD which points your computer in the direction of the operating system to resume from and to. You can edit/view your BCD by opening up command prompt and using the command bcdedit /? for a list of options. Anyway I tried everything to fix the hibernation problem, including using EasyBcd, but the only thing that worked was installing another copy of windows on a different partition, this rewrites the BCD. Then you can uninstall that extra Operating System. Now the BCD should be corrected. Hope this helps, I couldn't find any info on this subject for months so I just played around with the BCD, and installing another OS" (from http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...ate-windows-7-build-7600-64-bit-ultimate.html).

I don't know that my problem is with the BCD store itself - perhaps it's some partition table issue, or some pointer somewhere?

I also tried booting into recovery console. From there, running "bootrec /rebuildbcd" says that it finds 0 windows installations on the machine. Running "bootrec /scanos" also comes up with 0 installations found. Running bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot don't help.