m1330 doesn't wake after hibernation (power light comes on then goes off)

First of all, I've never really owned a laptop before. Used them tons but never had to live day in and day out with them. I'm used to servers that just stay on.

Windows Hibernation has always seemed flaky to me, so i'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue. but regardless, the computer seems to continue running as the harddrive continues activity, but the screen is off and the power light is off.

press hte power button and it lights up then turns off, nothing happens with the screen, and the harddrive keeps running. ideas?

 

Same issue here on my XPS-M1330 on Vista x86 ultimate
Anybody else having problems completing (waking up from) hibernation?

 

If you are running Vista, did you try the patches mentioned here?

John

 

I never use hibernation, just put the thing to sleep.

 

sleep seem to be the same issue,once i clode the lid, the screen goes black and does not turn on again. fan and HD still run (like the system is powering down) but pressing a key does noting, cycling with Fn + F8 does noting, and pressing the power button lights the led for 2 secs and then it dims doing nothing.

only a powercycle (powerbutton +5secs) gets the system to reboot (saying it's recovering from an unexpected shutdown)

 

Just tried them both, though both are saying when trying to install: "This patch does not apply to your system" and then they exit

 

On my M1330, it takes about 10 seconds for it to go to sleep and even longer for hibernation. I am sure you waited for power inicator to start blinking before you open the lid, any earlier and mine remains blank.

If the fan and HD are still going then they have not entered into any sleeping or hibernation state yet.

Check your power settings to see what your laptop is set to do when you close the lid.

 

my powerbutton does not start blinking at any time, it just goes blank

 

It might that my problem either has to do with the forceware 163.xx driver (rather than the Dell driver) or my Intel Turbo Memory module.

Who is also using the 163.xx driver but IS able to sleep/hibernate?

My powerled on the front does not go off, so it seems not being able to complete going into sleep/hibernation rather than a problem waking up....

 

I use dell's 7.15.11.128 video driver and my hibernation works well, but sleep does the same thing your's does.Sleep basically turns my computer off. It gives me a windows did not properly shutdown screen on boot. When i installed the laptopvideo2go 163 driver, i lost my hibernation ability. So i rolled back to original driver.

 

Ah ok, so it's driver related, i am not reverting to the original driver (too old) so i guess i have to get used to not hibernating then (for now at least)

 

Though my system seems to go to sleep through being idle just fine

I will try the 156.xx mobile release WHQL driver again, see what that one does.

Though the Purevideo HD implementation on 163.xx seems a lot better then on the older versions (lower CPU utilization)

 

i started to notice that my problem was indeed closing the lid and opening it back up expecting the OS to pop back up but it was still trying to hibernate or sleep, or whatever.

which is more severe? you'd think sleep would be less of a system slowdown than hibernate but from this thread it doesn't sound so.

Raphie, when did you order your 1330? i never saw an option for the 1gig turbo memory unless its just included

 

Try disabling TMM and see if it works. Go to start and type task scheduler under start search, and open it. On the left side, go to task scheduler local, then task scheduler library, then Microsoft, then Windows, and then click MobilePC. You should see TMM on top, just right click and select disable. Restart the system. Try to check if you still have the problem.

 

Microsoft Transient Multi-Monitor Manager

yea probably something you DON'T want to disable on a laptop. also would only be a solution if TMM was trying to restore the display to an external display, which is not the case.

 

Yet, it is still worth a try. It worked on a friend's laptop, why not share it with others. Just my two cents here tho..