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Comment from cristie on 2011-11-13

2011-11-13T21:34:47Z

After destructive reformat of my harddrive, I too had no standby/hibernate options. Computer mfr had a driver listed on the website, but exceeded 95-character name and was rejected by my computer. So I downloaded a driver from the ATI website. The options are now back, However, the monitor now will not awaken from Sleep.....it's ok not to respond to this....I will just go back to the Radeon website and try again.

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Comment from mr master on 2011-08-13

2011-08-13T16:55:21Z

it's possible in some of the situations above (no hibernate option) that your computer doesn't have enough hard drive space to fulfill the hibernate function, e.g., you have 4 GB of RAM but only 3GB of hard drive available

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Comment from Ndagijimana Rchard on 2010-09-04

2010-09-05T06:06:08Z

Thank for your help Mr. Leo
It really worked for me.
I could shutdown each time and loose
all my work

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Comment from kmlysek on 2010-03-16

2010-03-16T13:53:17Z

My Presario 2200 no longer hibernates. It attempts to go into hibernation but then stops and goes back to the screen it was on before I attempted hibernation. Hibernation is activated. I miss being able to use hibernation as it takes a long time to boot. What can I do?

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Comment from Randi Fechter on 2010-02-08

2010-02-08T19:40:45Z

What do I do if I don't have a hibernate tab in power options? My Dell Inspiron laptop with XP Media crashed and had to do a Windows XP repair to get it back up and running. I don't have a standby or hibernate option any more. Please help.

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Comment from Jerry on 2009-07-13

2009-07-14T04:47:27Z

No one realy answered the question. The thing is on some machines in the power option you don't get the Hibernation option at all. Why?

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Comment from Laura on 2009-01-01

2009-01-01T21:32:48Z

My computer is doing this too: I used window XP and I have no tab to turn on Hibernate and standby. When I go to 'Turn off computer' I have an option to 'Stand-by' & 'Hibernate', but it is grey-ed out so I can't click it. Why is this? Is there something else I can download/update to repair this?

Posted by: nirav at October 14, 2008 8:02 PM

And i don't have the hibernation tab anymore either it is gone...???

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Comment from carl on 2008-12-21

2008-12-21T14:19:26Z

i have vista. power option does not have hibernate tab,or properties opp.

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Comment from nirav on 2008-10-14

2008-10-15T03:02:39Z

I used window XP and I have no tab to turn on Hibernate and standby. When I go to 'Turn off computer' I have an option to 'Stand-by' & 'Hibernate', but it is grey-ed out so I can't click it. Why is this? Is there something else I can download/update to repair this?

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Comment from adelly on 2008-09-24

2008-09-24T14:39:44Z

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Comment from Jodie Robinson on 2008-09-07

2008-09-07T12:37:15Z

My computer Hibernates but instead of switching off it just resets and then boots. Is this because I am running a 32 bit version of Windows on my 64 bit machine?
Ubuntu Linux hibernates fine though.

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Comment from james cave on 2008-07-29

2008-07-29T10:41:50Z

cant hiranate or stand by enabled is checked for hibranate . Also get no sound

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Comment from Ladonna Clark on 2008-07-08

2008-07-08T14:59:13Z

my backspace disappeared so how can I get it back?

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Comment from Brian on 2008-06-22

2008-06-22T09:51:52Z

Same problem as Tricia. Once in BIOS, what do I (we) need to do to re-enable hibernation. I need my Dell Latitude D620 to be able to hibernate upon closing the laptop. Thanks!

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Comment from Danish on 2008-06-06

2008-06-06T16:22:21Z

I read a lot of your articles, and it was great. But this tips is not working on my laptop IBM R32
I don't know why..

http://windows-tipstricks.blogspot.com/

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Comment from HW on 2008-05-27

2008-05-27T21:50:01Z

Same problem - Vista Premium, laptop 3 months old, "hibernate" disappeared a few weeks ago. I'm guessing it's SP1 update. I preferred "hibernate" to "sleep" and want it back.

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Comment from gina on 2008-03-31

2008-03-31T10:31:52Z

i have the same problem...i am using vista with my laptop... before i could use the hibernate features and i really love using it because it saves my works and i could just easily go back to it when i turn it on...but then during the easter holiday, i noticed hibernate button is not there anymore...how will i return that feature...hibernate is really helpful...

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Comment from Cristina Nelson on 2008-02-27

2008-02-27T16:05:14Z

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? Is there something else I can download/update to repair this?
Thanks!

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Comment from Kimberly on 2008-02-08

2008-02-08T21:56:38Z

where do I locate the BIOS function?

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Comment from J Dobster on 2008-01-27

2008-01-27T21:59:58Z

I no longer have a hibernation choice in the control
panel. I think it was wiped out by some Microsoft
updates. Tried some choices offered in their support
section but did not work. What can I do.

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Comment from cris on 2008-01-22

2008-01-23T06:39:50Z

In my Laptop previously I can able to see the Hibernation option in the Start menu for my Vista Home Premium. Last day I observed the option is not there. I could not understand why this has happened? How can I get that option back.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-01-20

2008-01-21T00:25:17Z

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Your computer must support the ACPI power management
specification. IF your hardware supports it, then you may
also need to enable it in your BIOS.

Leo

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Comment from Michelle on 2008-01-15

2008-01-16T02:52:28Z

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Comment from Tricia on 2008-01-03

2008-01-03T20:59:30Z

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?

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Comment from Daniel on 2008-01-02

2008-01-02T22:05:35Z

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?

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Comment from Sean on 2007-12-20

2007-12-20T22:15:58Z

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.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-15

2007-11-15T20:51:07Z

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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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Comment from Aart Doeland on 2007-11-14

2007-11-14T11:20:40Z

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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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2007-11-12

2007-11-12T13:19:43Z

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/

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-11

2007-11-12T00:34:46Z

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

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Comment from Dominick on 2007-11-10

2007-11-10T11:38:39Z

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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Comment from Irving on 2007-11-09

2007-11-10T07:11:23Z

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

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