Stand By and Hibernate disabled

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After reformatting the HD and reinstalling XP, I find that my Inspiron
laptop doesn't have Stand By or Hibernate options. When I close the
lid and re-open it it's nonresponsive on a black screen until I turn
it off with the Power button.

I thought HAL.DLL was missing -- I got that error message once -- but
it's there in SYSTEM32 and the bootlog shows it installed as a driver.
Is there another driver missing? (I can't decipher all those short
file names.) Might it be the wrong HAL, a generic one supplied with
the XP Re-Install CD? How do I find out?

Other idea is that I've deleted the hidden Hibernate partition. It
didn't show up in FDISK or XP Setup; there were two unnamed partitions
(one was CP/M formatted!) but I didn't change them. I've got 8GB left
over, mysteriously enough, so I could set up another partition if I
need one. Would that make it work again?

 

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Did you install everything from Dell that you are supposed to install? There
is an awful lot of software and drivers for their proprietary hardware.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

"Ed Ferris" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> After reformatting the HD and reinstalling XP, I find that my Inspiron
> laptop doesn't have Stand By or Hibernate options. When I close the
> lid and re-open it it's nonresponsive on a black screen until I turn
> it off with the Power button.
>
> I thought HAL.DLL was missing -- I got that error message once -- but
> it's there in SYSTEM32 and the bootlog shows it installed as a driver.
> Is there another driver missing? (I can't decipher all those short
> file names.) Might it be the wrong HAL, a generic one supplied with
> the XP Re-Install CD? How do I find out?
>
> Other idea is that I've deleted the hidden Hibernate partition. It
> didn't show up in FDISK or XP Setup; there were two unnamed partitions
> (one was CP/M formatted!) but I didn't change them. I've got 8GB left
> over, mysteriously enough, so I could set up another partition if I
> need one. Would that make it work again?

 

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When you enable hibernate, the system creates a "file", not a partition,
called hiberfil.sys. It is created in the root of your system drive -
usually C:

Go to device manager. Look under computer for ACPI Uniprocessor PC. Is it
there? What is said about it's condition? Try to update the drivers. What
happens if you do?

I have seen the power management settings for both the mouse and keyboard
prevent a computer from going into standby/hibernate. Make sure the settings
are set to NOT allow these devices to bring the computer out of
standby/hibernate.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

"Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OSoHzdotFHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Did you install everything from Dell that you are supposed to install?
> There is an awful lot of software and drivers for their proprietary
> hardware.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from: George Ankner
> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>
> "Ed Ferris" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96CDEB0CF97A6edfcorecom@216.168.3.44...
>> After reformatting the HD and reinstalling XP, I find that my Inspiron
>> laptop doesn't have Stand By or Hibernate options. When I close the
>> lid and re-open it it's nonresponsive on a black screen until I turn
>> it off with the Power button.
>>
>> I thought HAL.DLL was missing -- I got that error message once -- but
>> it's there in SYSTEM32 and the bootlog shows it installed as a driver.
>> Is there another driver missing? (I can't decipher all those short
>> file names.) Might it be the wrong HAL, a generic one supplied with
>> the XP Re-Install CD? How do I find out?
>>
>> Other idea is that I've deleted the hidden Hibernate partition. It
>> didn't show up in FDISK or XP Setup; there were two unnamed partitions
>> (one was CP/M formatted!) but I didn't change them. I've got 8GB left
>> over, mysteriously enough, so I could set up another partition if I
>> need one. Would that make it work again?
>
>

 

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"Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:OSoHzdotFHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

> Did you install everything from Dell that you are supposed to
install?
> There is an awful lot of software and drivers for their proprietary
> hardware.
>

I think so. They sent me, on request, their Drivers CD and I auto-ran
its selection and installation programs. Didn't see anything about
Power Management.

What would the Hibernation partition look like in Disk Management?
Would it be visible there?

Thanks,