[T61p] Doesn't hibernate, only logs out

Hi,

I have a not even 1 week old T61p with Vista Ultimate preinstalled. After doing all the Windows and Lenovo updates, I noticed that hibernation didn't work (and still doesn't).

Here's what happens: I click on Start->Hibernate (or other ways to achieve it) and then the screen goes black, hard drive becomes active, then after 2-5 seconds the displays flickers and then comes back to the login screen.

I tried to disable / reenable hibernation with the powercfg -h ON|OFF command and restarting before,during and afterwards, with no effect.

The event viewer shows an error:
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Source: volmgr
Event ID: 45
The system could not sucessfully load the crash dump driver.
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I searched the web the last few days and came across other people that have the same symptoms.

First one:
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1338
Guy who has exactly same symptoms after installing xp on another partition, no resolutions found besides clean install.
They suspected problems with the volume manager (volmgr) or Bitlocker, but couldn't confirm or fix anything.

Second one:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=49155
Same symptoms, dual boot with Linux.
He found that his Vista partition wasn't marked as active, which caused the hibernation problem.


In my case, I don't have another operating system installed, but I used Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 to shrink the preinstalled Vista partition to 60GB and created a new 120GB one at the end. Because I initially tried to use Vista's partitioning tool, I deactivated the system restore points and the paging file in order to free some space in the middle of the drive that prevented Vista from shrinking it beyond their locations. Didn't work of course, even after using various defragmentation tools. Then I used Paragon's tool and it took care of moving the overlapping files.

My Vista partition is marked as active. The second one (containing installed programs) is not active. Vista tells me that only partitions with an operational OS should be marked active.

Bitlocker is installed but I never used it.

I think hibernation didn't even work after doing the updates at first, but I'm not really sure anymore whether I tried it then. Definately after the repartitioning, it didn't work. Standby, shutdown, restart work all as expected.


Thank you,

Jo

 

Hi Jo

Been having exact same problem with Vista Ultimate on Dell XPS m1330

Had it a couple of days been configuring many parts inc paragaon partition
manager to resize c: to 50GB
(minimum allowed 100GB down size with shrink option in disk manager so
used paragaon, you probably found the same)

Not sure but from this point hibernate stopped working
It would make sense in terms of others playing with partitions to install other OS's

I suspect the (master file table) MFT or partitions have got screwed up
I'm going to look at disk defragers and let you know

I also have same event viewer error

 

Just to explain what hibernation is... it basically turns of your computer (aka not using any power once it's under hibernation). But it saves the state you were in onto the HardDrive. So like the windows you had open and the programs you have running. So once it's in hibernation your computer should be considered Off.

 

This is not a TP problem, it is a Vista problem. Vista does not hibernate or sleep with default settings on most laptop or desktop machines. I have 3 versions of Vista on three different machines, including 2 desktops, and none of them will sleep or hibernate reliably. Sleep mode on the TP is by far the best of all...

 

I have a new R61 with Vista Premium and it seems to hibernate like it should but continues to draw battery power. Left in hibernation overnite the battery will lose about 25 percent.