Windows 7 Hibernating Issue?

GreenMint · 23 May 2009 at 14:25

Hey guys, I've migrated 90%ish of my system over to W7 and just tying up a few loose ends on XP, but every time I hibernate with 7 it hibernates, then restarts straight away, which, I obviously don't want it to do!

Any ideas on what could be causing this/any workarounds?

System is:

Asus P5NE-SLi w/ E6300@stock
4GB OCZ PC6400
OCZ Vertex 30gb with the OS
300GB Secondary HDD.

Thanks guys!

yashiro · 24 May 2009 at 01:14

Type powercfg /energy in a command prompt window.
Then read the report it spits out.

My ASUS does exactly the same. The report blames the onboard usb controller.
Probably a driver issue as it all worked fine under XP.

master811 · 24 May 2009 at 11:14

Could be a graphics card/driver issue, I have the same problem with my laptop - the GPU is pretty old now, so although everything on 7 works fine, it doesn't like hiberation or sleeping as there is no official (or decent) graphics driver for it.

Edit: scrap that, just ran the powercfg thing, looks like a USB issue too - and all this time I thought it was a GPU issue, thanks for that, didn't even know it existed.

deadite66 · 24 May 2009 at 13:03

i had the same problem, this was my fix:
go to device manager / network adapters and turn off 'allow this device to wake the computer'

yashiro · 24 May 2009 at 13:25

Being Windows that may well work, aye. I'll give it a try if I reboot out of Linux sometime this week.

RobH · 24 May 2009 at 14:12

It's probably the network adapter, mine used to to it all of the time. Antoher thing was scheduled tasks waking it up every night at 3am and not putting it back to sleep.

yashiro · 25 May 2009 at 11:00

Tried it just now. It now goes to sleep and seems to be faster than XP at resuming too.
For me, despite the issues stated in the power report it was the nic power option to blame.

GreenMint · 28 May 2009 at 00:49

Well, just done a report and its talking mostly about USB issues, if anyone has time for a quick gander, report is up at

http://timbrad.com/energy-report.html

yashiro · 28 May 2009 at 12:15

I don't think the usb errors will be the cause. My report was almost identical.
Disabling the nic from waking the PC fixed it.

z0mbi3 · 11 Jun 2009 at 10:56

Bump.

I'm having the same issue on my desktop running Windows 7. Still in search of a solution.

bledd · 11 Jun 2009 at 11:21

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18018281

stupid ASUS factory settings

one of the most retarded problems I've ever seen

superplay · 11 Jun 2009 at 13:32

If you PC is restarting when it goes to sleep it is almost certainly going into a bluescreen. This is almost 100% going to be an incompatible driver somewhere.

Also build 7201 resolved a number of issues found in build 7100 with PCs going into bluescreen when a PC enters sleep (and sometime shutdown)

jas72 · 11 Jun 2009 at 16:17

crazy thing is I have the same problem on my NC10 notebook which is currently dualboot win7 and XP and since I installed Win7 it's XP that won't hibernate win 7 hibernates perfectly.

z0mbi3 · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:39

z0mbi3 said:
Bump.

I'm having the same issue on my desktop running Windows 7. Still in search of a solution.

Fixed my problem. Under device manager my NIC was set to wake up the computer on any packet it received, rather than the special wakeup one. Ticked the special packet option and it hibernates fine now.