Vista 64-bit hibernates during login

This ones driving me absolutely crazy, as I've spent a whole weekend on it so
far...

The symptom: Within 5-10seconds of reaching the login screen my laptop
enters hibernate/standby mode, this will repeat until I get past the
'Welcome' screen to the desktop.

I have obviously gone through powercfg and attempted to prevent hibernate
(powercfg -h off) and have gone through the power management (powercfg.cpl)
advanced setting removing sleep and hibernate options, to no avail.

Prior to this I went through and disabled all start up programs, first using
Windows Defender and then the Autorun utility.

Even with all the startup programs removed and hibernate/sleep disabled, it
still hibernates!!!! I also uninstalled all my logitec drivers (including a
few die hard one!) just in case (they tend to be problematic).

This happens on a clean install of Vista 64-bit on my laptop. I have an
NVidia 8600GTM card.

My question is, is there anyway of detecting what is requesting the
hibernation??? Is it the laptop keyboard being faulty? I have scoured the
event logs with no hope.

I really would appreciate your help before I scrub the drive and install
Vista 32-bit (which will hopefully be better?!?!)

Thanks

The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may
become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897

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"Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63561D7F-E6E3-46AD-B35C-7660785CDAB6@microsoft.com...
> This ones driving me absolutely crazy, as I've spent a whole weekend on it
> so
> far...
>
> The symptom: Within 5-10seconds of reaching the login screen my laptop
> enters hibernate/standby mode, this will repeat until I get past the
> 'Welcome' screen to the desktop.
>
> I have obviously gone through powercfg and attempted to prevent hibernate
> (powercfg -h off) and have gone through the power management
> (powercfg.cpl)
> advanced setting removing sleep and hibernate options, to no avail.
>
> Prior to this I went through and disabled all start up programs, first
> using
> Windows Defender and then the Autorun utility.
>
> Even with all the startup programs removed and hibernate/sleep disabled,
> it
> still hibernates!!!! I also uninstalled all my logitec drivers (including
> a
> few die hard one!) just in case (they tend to be problematic).
>
> This happens on a clean install of Vista 64-bit on my laptop. I have an
> NVidia 8600GTM card.
>
> My question is, is there anyway of detecting what is requesting the
> hibernation??? Is it the laptop keyboard being faulty? I have scoured
> the
> event logs with no hope.
>
> I really would appreciate your help before I scrub the drive and install
> Vista 32-bit (which will hopefully be better?!?!)
>
> Thanks
>

I would flash my BIOS and check to see if you have an ACPI driver that need
to be installed or updated. An unresolved item in Device Manager.

"Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63561D7F-E6E3-46AD-B35C-7660785CDAB6@microsoft.com...
> This ones driving me absolutely crazy, as I've spent a whole weekend on it
> so
> far...
>
> The symptom: Within 5-10seconds of reaching the login screen my laptop
> enters hibernate/standby mode, this will repeat until I get past the
> 'Welcome' screen to the desktop.
>
> I have obviously gone through powercfg and attempted to prevent hibernate
> (powercfg -h off) and have gone through the power management
> (powercfg.cpl)
> advanced setting removing sleep and hibernate options, to no avail.
>
> Prior to this I went through and disabled all start up programs, first
> using
> Windows Defender and then the Autorun utility.
>
> Even with all the startup programs removed and hibernate/sleep disabled,
> it
> still hibernates!!!! I also uninstalled all my logitec drivers (including
> a
> few die hard one!) just in case (they tend to be problematic).
>
> This happens on a clean install of Vista 64-bit on my laptop. I have an
> NVidia 8600GTM card.
>
> My question is, is there anyway of detecting what is requesting the
> hibernation??? Is it the laptop keyboard being faulty? I have scoured
> the
> event logs with no hope.
>
> I really would appreciate your help before I scrub the drive and install
> Vista 32-bit (which will hopefully be better?!?!)
>
> Thanks
>

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to date.

A system restore has had no effect either.

Was that an automated response?? Only if you'd read my original post you
would have noted that I deliberately turned hibernation off using powercfg -h
off, because it's entering hibernation unexpectedly! I think turning
hibernation back on, won't help!

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may
> become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool :
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897
>
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> Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web
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>
> .
> "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:63561D7F-E6E3-46AD-B35C-7660785CDAB6@microsoft.com...
> > This ones driving me absolutely crazy, as I've spent a whole weekend on it
> > so
> > far...
> >
> > The symptom: Within 5-10seconds of reaching the login screen my laptop
> > enters hibernate/standby mode, this will repeat until I get past the
> > 'Welcome' screen to the desktop.
> >
> > I have obviously gone through powercfg and attempted to prevent hibernate
> > (powercfg -h off) and have gone through the power management
> > (powercfg.cpl)
> > advanced setting removing sleep and hibernate options, to no avail.
> >
> > Prior to this I went through and disabled all start up programs, first
> > using
> > Windows Defender and then the Autorun utility.
> >
> > Even with all the startup programs removed and hibernate/sleep disabled,
> > it
> > still hibernates!!!! I also uninstalled all my logitec drivers (including
> > a
> > few die hard one!) just in case (they tend to be problematic).
> >
> > This happens on a clean install of Vista 64-bit on my laptop. I have an
> > NVidia 8600GTM card.
> >
> > My question is, is there anyway of detecting what is requesting the
> > hibernation??? Is it the laptop keyboard being faulty? I have scoured
> > the
> > event logs with no hope.
> >
> > I really would appreciate your help before I scrub the drive and install
> > Vista 32-bit (which will hopefully be better?!?!)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>

I would check BIOS settings and if you can flash to the latest even if that
is a repeat. Hibernation is a communication between the ACPI driver in
Windows and the BIOS ACPI settings.

"Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2C89F43-BD31-458E-AB34-2BF622C81F15@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to date.
>
> A system restore has had no effect either.

I'm afraid my BIOS is up to date (Compal 1.16) and there are no ACPI settings
in the BIOS menu.

As for my drivers, I've run Driver Detective against them and they're all up
to date.

Tearing my hair out on this one! It really is the most ridiculously obscure
Windows bug I've yet experienced. I mean what on earth would cause windows
to hibernate during login????

Note it doesn't happen on lock.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> I would check BIOS settings and if you can flash to the latest even if that
> is a repeat. Hibernation is a communication between the ACPI driver in
> Windows and the BIOS ACPI settings.
>
> "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A2C89F43-BD31-458E-AB34-2BF622C81F15@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to date.
> >
> > A system restore has had no effect either.
>
>

Fascinating fact, it does happen if I Log out though! When I log back in it
goes to the Welcome screen and then hibernates, on resume I can log in (so
long as I'm quick).

I'm wondering if it's tied to a group policy, but I've used gpedit.msc and
can't see anything that would set it. I'm going to connect the laptop back
to the domain in the morning and see if there's any difference when it's on
the domain network...

"Thargy" wrote:

> I'm afraid my BIOS is up to date (Compal 1.16) and there are no ACPI settings
> in the BIOS menu.
>
> As for my drivers, I've run Driver Detective against them and they're all up
> to date.
>
> Tearing my hair out on this one! It really is the most ridiculously obscure
> Windows bug I've yet experienced. I mean what on earth would cause windows
> to hibernate during login????
>
> Note it doesn't happen on lock.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
> > I would check BIOS settings and if you can flash to the latest even if that
> > is a repeat. Hibernation is a communication between the ACPI driver in
> > Windows and the BIOS ACPI settings.
> >
> > "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:A2C89F43-BD31-458E-AB34-2BF622C81F15@microsoft.com...
> > > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to date.
> > >
> > > A system restore has had no effect either.
> >
> >

How old is you BIOS? It should be under the Power Management (or similar)
section of most less than 5 year old BIOS's

"Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C99BF7F7-9E13-45A6-A9D3-FCC038F5AAE3@microsoft.com...
> I'm afraid my BIOS is up to date (Compal 1.16) and there are no ACPI
> settings
> in the BIOS menu.
>
> As for my drivers, I've run Driver Detective against them and they're all
> up
> to date.
>
> Tearing my hair out on this one! It really is the most ridiculously
> obscure
> Windows bug I've yet experienced. I mean what on earth would cause
> windows
> to hibernate during login????
>
> Note it doesn't happen on lock.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> I would check BIOS settings and if you can flash to the latest even if
>> that
>> is a repeat. Hibernation is a communication between the ACPI driver in
>> Windows and the BIOS ACPI settings.
>>
>> "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A2C89F43-BD31-458E-AB34-2BF622C81F15@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to
>> > date.
>> >
>> > A system restore has had no effect either.
>>
>>

The Compal 1.16 was released December 07.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> How old is you BIOS? It should be under the Power Management (or similar)
> section of most less than 5 year old BIOS's
>
> "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C99BF7F7-9E13-45A6-A9D3-FCC038F5AAE3@microsoft.com...
> > I'm afraid my BIOS is up to date (Compal 1.16) and there are no ACPI
> > settings
> > in the BIOS menu.
> >
> > As for my drivers, I've run Driver Detective against them and they're all
> > up
> > to date.
> >
> > Tearing my hair out on this one! It really is the most ridiculously
> > obscure
> > Windows bug I've yet experienced. I mean what on earth would cause
> > windows
> > to hibernate during login????
> >
> > Note it doesn't happen on lock.
> >
> > "John Barnes" wrote:
> >
> >> I would check BIOS settings and if you can flash to the latest even if
> >> that
> >> is a repeat. Hibernation is a communication between the ACPI driver in
> >> Windows and the BIOS ACPI settings.
> >>
> >> "Thargy" <Thargy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:A2C89F43-BD31-458E-AB34-2BF622C81F15@microsoft.com...
> >> > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately all my drivers appear up to
> >> > date.
> >> >
> >> > A system restore has had no effect either.
> >>
> >>
>
>