hibernate failing

I have a dell inspiron 6000 laptop.

recently re-installed OS due to hard disk problems. worked much better.
I then added 2 GB of memory - upgrading from 500MB.

when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
system resources to perform hibernate function ....

When it 1st booted after installing new memory, it detected the new added
memory...

how do I fix so hibernate works??? weird!

Don Simard wrote:
> I have a dell inspiron 6000 laptop.
>
> recently re-installed OS due to hard disk problems. worked much better.
> I then added 2 GB of memory - upgrading from 500MB.
>
> when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
> system resources to perform hibernate function ....
>
> When it 1st booted after installing new memory, it detected the new
> added memory...
>
> how do I fix so hibernate works??? weird!
Did you install the motherboard drivers then all the other necessary
device drivers after you installed XP? If not you will find many things
that don't work correctly. Suspend and hibernate depend on the
cooperation of various pieces of hardware and the cooperation dialogue
is via drivers.

-- Jeff Barnett

Don Simard wrote:
> when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
> system resources to perform hibernate function ....

Wild guess: Disable hibernation and re-enable it.

Hibernation requires a file which is contiguous on disk, to hold the
memory image. When you add memory, the file becomes too small to hold
the new image. Disabling/Enabling re-created the image file. As long as
there is a large enough gap on your disk. Defragmentation may help, but
Microsoft's defragmentation defragments only the files, not the free space.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

"Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Don Simard wrote:
>> when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
>> system resources to perform hibernate function ....
>
> Wild guess: Disable hibernation and re-enable it.
>
> Hibernation requires a file which is contiguous on disk, to hold the
> memory image. When you add memory, the file becomes too small to hold the
> new image. Disabling/Enabling re-created the image file. As long as there
> is a large enough gap on your disk. Defragmentation may help, but
> Microsoft's defragmentation defragments only the files, not the free
> space.
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk

Tried that - a number of times. I believe all the drivers are installed. It
still comes back with an error. mystified

How much memory (including video ram) and hard drive space do you have?

"Don Simard" <simard57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Don Simard wrote:
>>> when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
>>> system resources to perform hibernate function ....
>>
>> Wild guess: Disable hibernation and re-enable it.
>>
>> Hibernation requires a file which is contiguous on disk, to hold the
>> memory image. When you add memory, the file becomes too small to hold the
>> new image. Disabling/Enabling re-created the image file. As long as there
>> is a large enough gap on your disk. Defragmentation may help, but
>> Microsoft's defragmentation defragments only the files, not the free
>> space.
>>
>> --
>> Steve Swift
>> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
>> http://www.ringers.org.uk
>
> Tried that - a number of times. I believe all the drivers are installed.
> It still comes back with an error. mystified

found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095 in a Dell forum
seems to have fixed it

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> How much memory (including video ram) and hard drive space do you have?
>
> "Don Simard" <simard57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:06B310C4-74D8-4330-9459-3FBE251C351F@microsoft.com...
>>
>>
>> "Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:evfYwdepIHA.2208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Don Simard wrote:
>>>> when I try to hibernate - it fails reporting that there are not enough
>>>> system resources to perform hibernate function ....
>>>
>>> Wild guess: Disable hibernation and re-enable it.
>>>
>>> Hibernation requires a file which is contiguous on disk, to hold the
>>> memory image. When you add memory, the file becomes too small to hold
>>> the new image. Disabling/Enabling re-created the image file. As long as
>>> there is a large enough gap on your disk. Defragmentation may help, but
>>> Microsoft's defragmentation defragments only the files, not the free
>>> space.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Swift
>>> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
>>> http://www.ringers.org.uk
>>
>> Tried that - a number of times. I believe all the drivers are installed.
>> It still comes back with an error. mystified
>