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I recently installed Windows Xp x64 edition on my computer. when I go to the power options to enable hibernation, there is no hibernate tab! What should I do to enable hibernation on my PC?
 
If the Hibernate tab is not available, your computer does not support this feature.

To put your computer into hibernation, you must have a computer whose components and BIOS support this option.

Power Options automatically detects what is available on your computer and shows you only the options that you can control.
 
I had a similar issue, whenever i do a fresh install of Win Xp i dont find the Hibernate tab under power options.. but once i install my graphics driver (nvidia geforce) and restart my system, i get it. but thats on X86 32 bit system.

U might try this.. All the best

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tush said:
If the Hibernate tab is not available, your computer does not support this feature.
To put your computer into hibernation, you must have a computer whose components and BIOS support this option.
Power Options automatically detects what is available on your computer and shows you only the options that you can control.
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Bro, My computer supports hibernation, its not some old PC. And btw, it did work on 32 bit
 
The above link says that you cannot put a computer to hibernation that has above 4 gb of RAM and I have to reduce it to 4 gb or less. I have exactly 4 gb of ram.

My config:

Asus P5NSLI

1Gb+1GB+2GB Ram (800 MHz)

HD 4670 DDRIII 1 GB

E5200 @2.5Ghz
 
Well its difficult to comment or point to one specific cause. Because this could happen even if certain third party device driver is not updated version and hence lacking hibernation support. Your device would be supporting the feature but a driver has to complement along with it. Just for a similar example go through the following article

Sleep and Hibernation Power Scheme Settings Not Displayed After You Remove and Add a Trident Driver

Currently I would suggest you the following Action Plan.

-Update the System(Motherboard) BIOS if you are comfortable with doing that.
-Update all the third party device drivers and firmwares of hardware as well as third
party softwares and then let us know whats the status.
-The previous article that i gave you mentions about the amount of free space on your system partition where the pagefile.sys is located.
-The system partition should have atleast 1.5 times of Physical Ram or more free space. If thats not the case then that option might get disabled.
 
when I go to the power options to enable hibernation, there is no hibernate tab! What should I do to enable hibernation on my PC?
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A little reminder, did you tick the check box saying "Enable Hibernate" ?? Its on the next tab. :)
 
sabby said:
A little reminder, did you tick the check box saying "Enable Hibernate" ?? Its on the next tab. :)
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lol bro....im not that stupid to not check the ''enable hibernation'' and try to hibernate my PC. And btw, there is NO hibernation tab in power options.
 
Open the Boot.ini file and check if there is a /PAE switch added ?

Also try to run this cmd from cmd prompt to enable hibernation - powercfg -h ON
And then reboot the system and then see if you get hibernate option.

Make sure you are logged in with administrator account previliges.
 
You Cannot Hibernate a PC with more than 3GB of RAM & I see u've got 1+1+2=4GB...... just google & u will know it...

Basically it makes the hibernate file too big to be written & then loaded back. so Hibernation is disabled automatically if u have 4 GB of RAM...
 
^are you sure about that. I am using XP-SP3 with 4GB of RAM and I always use the hibernate feature and it takes up 3GB of hard disk space when enabled...
 
@Crossx.. Yes u may be able to hibernate XPsp3 b'cos it is 32bit(x86) & it can't see more than 3 GB I already said "You Cannot Hibernate a PC with more than 3GB of RAM ".

I can see ur Sig saying u got Win7x64 installed, check with an x64 OS which can properly address full 4GB RAM.

Just google & search "hibernate with 4GB RAM" & u will see what I'm saying..

If infact this discussion can lead to a solution... I'd be more than happy....
 
There is no need of PAE in x64 OS. As they already support more then 4GB memory.
Now is PAE enabled by adding /PAE in boot.ini ? If thats the case then remove it from boot.ini and restart your system.

If its not there in boot.ini then the OS is getting confused the way your BIOS is mapping the memory. Can you tell me if you changed the slots of respective memory modules of what they are right now then what they were in your 32Bit OS ?
The reason I asked you this is because positioning of different Bank memory modules sometimes renders BIOS to map memory in such a way that the OS gets confused.
EDIT - If above is not the case then just open boot.in and add this switch -> /maxmem=4096

Save boot.ini and reboot the system.
 
If you have installed your OS on C:\ then follow the instructions below.

Click on Start>Run
Type -> C:\boot.ini
Click OK

-Now under boot.ini you would have something similar to below (Its a server 2003 file)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows Server 2003" /fastdetect

-So as you see "/fastdetect" just leave a space and add the "/maxmem=4096" without quotes or just remove /PAE based on what you are following from the above action plan.
 
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