Can no longer resume from hibernate! Please help!

- - this post was orginally posted in the Elitegroup hardware section - -

I have a ECS 648FXA mobo running WinXP SP2.
The video card is a Radeon 9550

Appx 6 months ago, the system would no longer resume from hibernation.
I was using hibernation routinely to quickly shut down / start up.

At some point this no longer worked: It seems to go into hibernation
normally, but when it is restarted it locks up with strange video.

Progression during start up after hibernation:
- Normal BIOS boot screen is shown as normal
- I see the WinXP start up progress bar
- blank screen
- (this is where it stalls) a messed up screen that is initial BIOS screen, but has static vertical bars running across the screen

(see image link below)
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462 [...] atepo1.jpg

The system is locked up and only power down or reset will allow the system to restart.

When WinXP restarts is reports a critical error.

I have tried the following:
- fresh install of WinXP (full legal version BTW)
- set fail safe BIOS settings and everything in between

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Also, unless I hibernate, I have no problems with this system, very stable.

thanks in advance.

jkcnet