Hibernation and Hard Drive Light.

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I have just started using Hibernation and it works excellent except for 1
thing.
The hard drive light is on steady after booting up from Hibernation. There
is no hard drive activity and cpu idle is 97% while the light remains on
steady.
The hard drive light acts normal when not using hibernation.

XP SP2
Athlon 64 3500+
Antec 3700 case with 400 watt.

Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Ron

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"EasyFeelings" wrote:
> why are you using hibernate on a tower?
>
> seems you'd be best to just turn it off.
>

Hibernation works like a charm on desktops. Why not using it?
--PA

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Hi RC, I just found that disconnect problem with Hybernate. It does not
connect after bootup. So much for using it - Kinda liked it though.

Thanks

"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
news:uzORey8BFHA.612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Bully.
>
> C:\hiberfil.sys should be just a few bytes bigger than your installed RAM.
> It must be in the Root of your boot volume (where the \Windows folder
> resides). There's not much point that I can see in backing it up - to DVD
> or anywhere else.
>
> When I first tried hibernate (and Standby, too) a couple of years ago, I
> didn't like it because when it came out of hibernation (or Standby), my
> ADSL was disconnected and the only way to get it back was to reboot -
> which pretty much kills the whole point of hibernation. :>( Somewhere
> along the line, though, some update (In WinXP? Or my modem driver? Or in
> my settings?) fixed the problem and now hibernation (and Standby) works
> very well on my home-built mid-tower desktop. (EPoX 8KDA3+, AMD Athlon 64
> 3200+, 1 GB RAM) ;< )
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> <wooly.bully@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:hcasv0tbknnag8qbadtkr0fuct3lqkm0ac@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:03:02 -0800, "Pavel A."
>> <pavel_a@NOwritemeNO.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"EasyFeelings" wrote:
>>>> why are you using hibernate on a tower?
>>>>
>>>> seems you'd be best to just turn it off.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hibernation works like a charm on desktops. Why not using it?
>>>--PA
>>
>> Why I don't use the hibernate feature.
>>
>> Hibernation creates a large file on my system, which the Norton Ghost
>> imaging program wants to backup. This (hiberfil.sys) is 1.5gig on my
>> C: and is a space hog on my DVD image file. So I chose to not use it.
>