-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:05:12 +1000 From: Don Penlington <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: display help At 12:16 PM 2/9/2009 -0500, you wrote: >My Toshiba Satellite running Windows XP Professional sometimes will not come >out of hibernation.>> Hibernation can be flaky at best. Your problem is common, and there can be many reasons. Standby is often just as effective and may be more reliable. It might help if you close as much down as possible (including background running apps) before hibernating. The problem usually is caused by the fact that everything that's running is placed into memory, and the system does not allocate sufficient memory to bring it out of hibernation again, if everything is less than perfect---eg no sticky drivers. But there can be many other reasons. Don Penlington ------------------------------ You might want to see if your settings in the BIOS have options, and will support, S1 and S3 power saving states. Many times S1 is enabled by default whereas S3 is the power state you want. You also want to check the keyboard in "Properties" to make sure "allow this device to bring computer out of standby" is enabled. I agree with Don regarding the hibernation feature. My Dell would fail to resume from hibernation in more than half the attmpts to do so. I have since learned that standby is a better alternative. HTH Chris Ryan [log in to unmask] Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com