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    Acer Aspire RAM upgrade and hibernation

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by janilane, Jul 30, 2009.

  1. janilane

    janilane Newbie

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    I recently replaced my 2 DDR2 RAM cards of 256MB each with 2 DDR2 cards of 1GB each. The hibernate function seems to have stopped. It no longer hibernates even if I set the settings using Acer ePower Management. The standby is working but not the hibernate, any ideas please?

    I'm using XP Home Edition SP2, and model is Acer Aspire 5502ZWCCi Pentium M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache).

    Thanks
     
    janilane, Jul 30, 2009
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    nacholambre Notebook Consultant

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    Did you update your BIOS yet? Also do a FULL disk scan while you are at it.

    Also check windows control panel power options. Not your acer one. Goto hibernation tab and check the box! Good luck mate!
     
    nacholambre, Jul 30, 2009
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    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    I wonder... is there a setting somewhere on how big the hibernate file on the HDD is? If there is and it is set to manual or something, it may be causing a conflict when it tries to save the 2GB worth of data in your RAM to the space sized for 512MB. Just a left field guess though.
     
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  4. Phil

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    Also check that you have enabled hibernation in the Control Panel, Energy settings.

    I assume you have more disk space than 2GB. If you don't, that would be a problem.
     
    Phil, Jul 30, 2009
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    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    That's true Phil, but even if he has 1TB of HD space, my bet is there is a setting somewhere in Windows similar to the settings for your paging file that allows you to specify the amount of space reserved on your drive for hibernate to use. If that setting is not large enough for his current amount of RAM, it won't work. Another left field idea, maybe you need to defrag. There might be requirements on the contiguousness of the hibernate file, and if your drive is all fragmented, it can't reserve the space it needs.

    Of course, if anyone has better ideas, please put them forward. :) I'm just making guesses.
     
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    janilane Newbie

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    I've used both Control panel and Acer ePower Mgmt. Initially, when I set the hibernate option to let's say 10 minutes, the setting bar is reverting back to option 'Never'. Then I tried setting the page file to max (2GB) and did file cleaning.

    I'm curious as to your comments that there is some option similar to page file setting for hibernate that could be set somewhere to set the RAM capacity? I've searched the net, and all i can find is a probable solution to reinstall the video card driver, i don't know how that will affect the hibernation option...

    Thanks
     
    janilane, Jul 30, 2009
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