Why can't my machine hibernate? And how's that different than Stand-by?

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Is stand-by the same as sleep? My Vista laptop has sleep mode but my XP dekstop has hibernate. Thanks.

I had a similar problem not long ago.
I switched from Standby to Hibernate and couldn't change back to standby when I wanted to.

After months of having the problem I discovered I had two mouse drivers installed.

After un-installing the old one for a mouse I no longer used everything went back to normal.

Never could figure out why that conflicted with my power settings but, then again, Windows has always done strange things with no logical reason for doing them.

http://www.domdedomdom.com/

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Irving: Stand-by and sleep are the same thing, yes.

Leo

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I'm one of those users who rearly turn of their computers. In the night time I would just put her on stand-by. I recently bought another computer at a yard sale. Cost me $20 but a great deal- P@-400mhz, 128mb RAM, I had to take some things off my old P2-266 with just 64 mb RAM.

Its a Compaq Deskpro, other than I can't put two hard drives in this case, like I had in my old one, I also lost the ability to place the computer in stand-by because of the video card.

It's a 3D RAGE PRO AGP with 8 MB video memory. I done research on the internet and found others with the same problem but no solution. Even Microsoft acknowledged it has a problem but offered no solution, workaround or patch what-so-ever.

www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/

My problem is, that the 2 tabs ´Advanced´ and ´Hibernate´do not show up. There are only 3 tabs. Result± I can´t use the Hibernate )and Stand/by' functions.

Thank you for all your wonderful - interesting articles!!

Aart

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Two things come to mind: you may need to be logged in with administrative
privileges, and possibly the install of windows doesn't realize that your
computer has power management capabilities. Make sure that's enabled in the
BIOS (as is sometimes the case).

Thanks,

Leo

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I have windows Vista Home Premium (32)on my Asus F3jr laptop. The Hibernate option used to always be present from the start menu but only "Sleep" is presnt and I don't know what happened to the "Hibernate" option. I accessed "Change Advanced Power Settings" in the Power Options dialogue box and selected "Power Buttons and Lid" to see if I could select Hibernate as an option but it didn't exist as an option except for on the main power button. However when I press the main power button it does not go into hibernation but instead just goes into Locked mode. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I have found hiernation to be an excellent way of switching off quickly and then coming back to work that I had left unfinished.

I have the same dissapearing hibernation problem. It used to be on my Windows Vista(32) HP laptop but I can't even find a trace of it anywhere. Why?

I just reinstalled windows xp after formatting my hard drive on my laptop, and hibernate is no longer an option. There's not even a tab on the power option properties. Any ideas what happened?

I am having the exact same problem as Tricia above. I have no tab to turn on Hibernate and I have admin abilities. When I go to 'Turn off computer' I have an option to 'Stand-by', but it is grey-ed out so I can't click it. Why is this?
Thanks!

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