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Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine

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P3nnst8r
01/16/09

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When they say hibernate, they MEAN hibernate.
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Aaron McClellan
01/16/09

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The sound drivers seem pretty buggy, too, I can't find any that are compatible with my device and the install disc that came with my mobo won't install them on win7.
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IN THE FACE!
01/16/09

@Aaron McClellan: Try a fresh install of the drivers from the chip maker and/or the XP version of the driver from either source (mobo/chip manufacturer).

I've heard a lot of reports of 7 supporting some xp drivers and not supporting some vista drivers...
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ncomputerm4
01/16/09

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Hmm, it has worked on 2 different Dell laptops. (D600 512mb ram, and a D800 1gb ram) Takes about 4 sec to come up on the D600 from hibernate (that's on a 1.4ghz PM with a 5400rpm drive). I'll test on my desktop tonight if it doesn't work I'll write back. I'm not sure a hardware bug is story worthy :-/ Gizmodo seems quick to attack a beta product. Quick question what motherboard and what drivers do you have installed for the board?
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Jason Chen
01/16/09

@ncomputerm4: No attack, just a warning to others who are running Windows 7.
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MinkOWar
01/16/09

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I tried to install WIndows 7 on the empty partition on my hard drive (which had my main OS install on the other partition).

I stepped away during install, and returned to find the computer in hibernation/sleep/whatever.

Machine powered up again when I hit spacebar, but after ten minutes, nothing had come up on the screen despite ctrl-alt-deleting, and other attempts to wake it.

When I manually powered the machine down, then up again, the HDD was dead. I spent most of the weekend trying to troubleshoot it, but the Drive is dead, won't show in BIOS on either of my computers, one of which was so new, I had to assemble it to try the HDD in it...

How's that for incapacitated?
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Dafrety
01/16/09

@MinkOWar: Ouch. It didn't happen to be a Seagate 1TB did it?

[www.theregister.co.uk]
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MinkOWar
01/16/09

@Dafrety: Nope, 500GB Seagate w/ 32mb cache (whichever model that is). I just bought a brand new one too, the exact same model...

Was thinking about swapping the chipboard off the new one to see if I could recover the older one... but the data's not worth anything but sentimental value, so the risk of losing both drives, the fix not working, and two warranties being void seems too great.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
01/17/09

@MinkOWar: Sounds like a bad drive. You're Windows Software wouldn't typically affect your OS unless you did a flash of the firmware from within Windows but that's a pretty deliberate act that wont "accidentally happen" even through a virus.
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discounteggroll
01/16/09

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my eee 1000HD does the same thing, and from the looks of things it's not too specific to any one computer/mobo at all
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