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    Help! Getting 'preparing to hibernate' on bootup

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by anytimer, Oct 25, 2011.

  1. anytimer

    anytimer Notebook Virtuoso

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    All of a sudden my old VGN-S2XP has started acting up. Even with the power adaptor plugged in and battery as fully charged as it could be (it is an old battery :p ), as soon as I boot up, I see the message: preparing to hibernate, and then the laptop goes into hibernation and turns itself off.

    I'm running Windows XP on this laptop.

    Any suggestions? Anyone? :confused:
     
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    Ambroos Notebook Consultant

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    Try booting it without battery and just AC power...
     
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    Tried that. No luck. Laptop boots up fine, shows me the desktop, then immediately goes back into hibernation. :(

    Same thing when booting from battery - without the power adaptor plugged in.
     
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    OK. Fixed, :D for now. :p

    Decided to see if safe mode still worked. Pressed F8 while booting. Got a different menu. Something like this with two choices:

    Restart interrupted.

    Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu.
    Continue with system restart.
    I chose the first option (delete restoration data) and everything started working again. :D I suppose the hibernation data got corrupted or something???
     
    anytimer, Oct 25, 2011
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