New motherboard - Can't hibernate

Last week i got my laptop back from repair and like the title suggests it got a new motherboard. Ever since I got it back I haven't been able to hibernate. The option simply isn't there. I can only go to sleep of shut it off which bugs me big time since I prefer to hibernate. I've updated the laptop with the latest firmware and don't know how to solve this. And yes there is plenty of memory left on my harddrives.

 

This can be caused by a few things. BIOS settings that need to be enabled for power management features relating to hibernation. Graphics drivers or some other third party driver that needs to be reinstalled so that it will be prepared to hibernate. If they replaced your motherboard, but didn't reinstall the OS, that last one might have something to do with it. Since they probably swapped the board out with one just like it, and you know that board hibernated in the past, it's unlikely that you have a motherboard that just doesn't support hibernation. Either the factory didn't turn the setting on in the BIOS, possible but unlikely, or one of your drivers has gotten confused and is telling Vista that it doesn't support hibernation. There are also some pieces of software, like GType for Windows, that have been known to make the hibernation tab magically disappear from Vista.

Hope that can be of some help. I tried to find some Microsoft supported pages on the subject, but everything they have on the subject seems to relate to Windows 2000 and not Vista. There is a hotfix for systems that won't hibernate if they have more than a gig of RAM, but you have exactly that, so that shouldn't be the issue.

 

i had that same problem what made it do it was when i did a disk clean there is a box you can click and it will disable your hiberate mode heres the fix that fixed my computer and i hope it works for yours

To resolve this problem in the Microsoft® Windows Vista? operating system, run the powercfg -h on command at a
command prompt to enable the hibernate feature and the hybrid sleep feature:

1.Click the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
2.Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
3.Type powercfg -h on, and then press the key.

The hibernate feature is now enabled in Microsoft Windows Vista.