Windows did not shutdown properly after resuming from hibernate

Hi,

I am having a problem with my Dell laptop. It's inspiron 1420.

The problem I am having is the hibernata problem.

The laptop can perform hibernate and completely shut down the system. But when trying to resume, it says the windows did not shut down properly.

What's wrong with it?

I have all the drivers installed and they are all the newest drivers I can find on the net.

The os is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition with 4 gb of RAM.

Please help me solve this problem...


thanks once again...

 

Try shutting down the laptop normally. Do you get the same message when booting up?

 

what hacks/tweaks in the area of cpu, power, and hibernation have you applied to your machine?

Undo ALL of them and see if your hibernation works properly.

 

if I shut it down normally, the error message does not pop up.

I don't tweak anything on the cpu, power nor the hibernation area.

 

What I would try first is to delete the hiberfil.sys file and let windows recreate it. You can find more information here: Hibernate - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Forums

Basically you are going to turn off Hibernate by issuing a command from the command prompt which will cause the file to be deleted: powercfg -h off. It wouldn't hurt to reboot the laptop at this point. I am not sure if it is necessary but won't hurt.

Then you will turn Hibernate back on by issuing: powercfg -h on which will recreate the file. I am thinking maybe the file got corrupted somehow.

 

I've had similar issues in the past and I'm unaware if deeastman's fix is an alternative solution. For me I found it was an issue with the boot loader BCD... You can either use BCDEdit to recreate the loaders or install something like EasyBCD, which has a GUI interface.

But be warned, if you do something wrong within the Loader, windows won't boot and you'll need further fixes to get into windows. Unfortunately I don't have my win7 laptop to give you some steps, but I did a quick search for "BCDedit hibernation" and found this SP1 Hibernation Error: "System was shut down unexpectantly" - Vista Forums

Hope this helps,

 

I just tried it a minute ago and it didn't success... it still gave me the same problem...

I'm gonna try yours now and see if it fixes the problem...


thanks for all the helps though. I really appreciate it so much...

 

ok tried the last step and still didn't work...

 

make sure all of your device drivers and bios/frmware are up to date.

bad drivers that don't save their state or properly wake up from sleep or hibernate can cause problems.

 

hi, everything is up to date. any other ideas?


thanks

 

Try running with only one of your memory DIMMs.

How much page/swap space do you have configured?

 

Help me!
I am also having the same exact problem after a clean reinstall of my Windows 7
Everything used to work fine before that
My Laptop is ACER ASPIRE 5740 with 3GB RAM and 2.13 Ghz processor

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards
MMK