Anyone have 1410 with hibernation problems?

I have a Gateway EC1803h which as far as I can tell is identical to the Acer 1410 except for the design of the case, so I'd like to ask this to the Acer users since there are many more with the 1410 than the Gateway.

I'm running Windows Vista. I've disabled the ACPI Lid driver by changing the driver to "Volume Manager" as suggested by various internet sources for fixing the problem where closing the lid, even with the close lid action set to "do nothing" can cause the lcd to not turn on again when opening the lid.

So the problem is with hibernation. If I hibernate the machine, then resume again within let's say a minute or so, it comes back up fine. If I hibernate, then wait a longer amount of time, say 10 minutes, I can see the BIOS boot, the "Resuming Windows" splash screen, but then when I'd expect to see the login screen, instead the laptop screen turns off, and I see nothing. Oddly enough, at this point, if I plug in an external monitor, I can see the login screen there, so the OS is running properly. I can even log in. But at this point, I cannot Fn+F5 to enable the laptop screen. It's like the laptop screen has been disconnected/disabled/removed, whatever you want to call it.

Another weird symptom is that at this point, I can usually see a "System" process that ends up taking up 100% of the CPU processing, all of the time (not just spikes), so the task manager basically stays at 100%.

This feels like a software/driver issue to me, but I've been unable to find any other Acer 1410 or Gateway EC1803h users who've experienced this. I've tried the video drivers on the Gateway site, Acer site, as well as drivers from the Intel site. Same behaviour. I'm contemplating exchanging it for another unit, but only if there's a chance this is indeed a hardware malfunction.

 

I'm sorry that I can't answer your question but I've one question.
How much time do you save by hibernating instead of normal booting?
I've abandoned hibernating long ago and either shut down or 90% of the time go into standby when closing the lid. My laptops often run for a whole month without shutting down. I couldn't stand having to wait half a minute to use it, 2 seconds are fine for me though.

 

Hibernation = Everything saved to disk. Computer shut down and zero power used.

Standby = RAM is fed enough power for it to "remember". Very little power used.

When booting, Standby is quicker.

 

@TeeJay
I know the terminology I just wanted to know if hibernating is really that much faster than a cold boot. Loading 4GB of data should take a while I suppose.

 

Yes, I find hibernation quite useful. It does make the laptop usable much faster from a fully off state (about 30 seconds, compared to 2 minutes to do a full boot with Vista). Also, I like to be able to leave my windows open, hibernate, and come back to it later (I find this is the biggest advantage with hibernation). I even hibernate my desktop. It has 4GB memory, but can resume in about 20 seconds, and is fully usable, no need to wait for drivers, startup apps, etc, to load (running XP). Definitely noticeably faster than a cold boot.

 

I agree with that. Hibernation is very usefull and in many cases a lot faster than cold boot. On the other side, some applications do not like hibernation and quit working after resume. But i'm also using hibernation as often as it is possible. Its a good compromise between stand-by and cold boot. However, it may get less important when SSDs are more common.

@Topic: Your problem seems to have something to do with the graphics driver and/or launchmanager. Perhaps you should reinstall/update the driver/application and see, if it solves the problem.
You can also try to uninstall the graphics driver completely to see, if the problem remains when working with the standard-vga-driver.