T61P Hibernation Problems

I just got a T61P, and I'm pretty happy with it except it seems to have some problems with hibernation some times. One time it went into hibernation fine, but when I tried to take it out of hibernation, it had problems and tried to "re-unhibernate" after failing to unhibernate and I eventually had to reboot. Another time it tried to un-hibernate and I saw the resuming Windows screen and status bar and then it just went to a black screen and stayed there. Now, it seems to be un-hibernating itself immediately after going into hibernation all by itself!


What's going on?

 

OS version, 965 chipset driver version, video driver version, applications running at the time of hibernation, any docking station/port replicators involved, any external devices, AC or battery power in use, amount of ram?

Have you tried recreating the hibernation partition?
(disable hibernate on the system, frees up the hard disk space, reboot, and then re-enable hiberate on the system and it will re-claim the hibernation partition space).

 

I'm using XP Pro, with all the standard T61P drivers and 1G of RAM. The only app I have running at hibernation is Firefox. I'm not using any other external devices or docks, just the AC adaptor and the mouse.

I'll try recreating the hibernation partition.

 

I've had similar issues on my Vista Ultimate, latest drivers from ThinkVantage update, ditto video, Outlook running only, on an advanced mini dock with a few USB devices and AC power, 2GB of memory.

I can't seem to re-produce it. But I can tell you that sometimes coming out of hibernation I get a BSOD (once in awhile) and many times I see Vista complain of an Unknown USB Device, which I think is the fingerprint reader going nuts for no apparent reason, as it seems to be unusable after coming back from hibernation.

 

Argh! I disabled and re-enabled hibernation using the power manager, but it still comes out of hibernation by itself immediately after going into hibernation!

 

I don't know what is going on for XP, but for Vista have you applied all of these registry patched at the bottom of the driver matrix page? http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67853

Also, I have disabled the fingerprint scan upon waking up from hibernation or sleep. I still use fingerprint upon boot-up.

Even though Hibernate has basically no battery drain, I personally I think Sleep is a better option. It wakes up much faster and there is still very little battery drain on sleep. If you are going to hibernate you might as well just shut-down. The sleep option is much improved over XPs "stand-by" option, IMO. Sleep is the same thing as XPs stand-by only if your battery does drain down to %5 it will briefly power-up long enough to go into hybernation.

If you are still having trouble you should consider a clean install using the guide in my sig.

Good Luck

 

Ok well few things to try.

1) Make sure you're using the 'latest' standard lenovo drivers for your system as well as the latest BIOS. (grab them all from www.lenovo.com).

2) Check your network cards (wired + wireless) under device manager right click on the NIC left click on properties, and if there's a power management tab, click on that and uncheck any boxes for "allow this device to bring computer out of standby" etc.

3) Are there any messages in the event viewer about the resume? This really sounds like a device is really waking things up, -or- it's failing to complete due to a device.

As was stated in a previous post, Windows Vista is a different animal w/ regard to this problem.

 

I made sure my drivers were updated and that my network card wasn't allowed to take my system out of standby and that seems to have fixed the spontaneous un-hibernation, but I'm still having the problem with not being able to come out of hibernation.

Here's the sequence of events when I try to come out of hibernation:

1. The Lenovo Thinkpad screen appears.

2. The resuming Windows screen with the status bar appears, the status bar reaches the end, then freezes for a few seconds (in normal bootup, the status bar screen disappears immediately after the status bar reaches the end).

3. The screen goes black and shuts down for a second.

4. The Lenovo Thinkpad screen appears again and then a screen appears that asks me to either a) delete hibernation data and reboot or b) try to unhibernate normally.

If I select "a", then the computer boots as if it was just shut down normally. If I select "b", then steps 2, 3, and 4 reoccur.

 

I put my T61 to hibernation. When I want it to be back on and pressed the power button, it didn't come back immediately but rather it's like I was turning it on from the beginning, booting etc., taking a long time.