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Morac · 06-30-2009, 12:33 PM

I've been using the hibernation feature on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop for a number of years now and it's worked flawlessly until relatively recently.

Lately upon resuming from hibernation, the machine will just kind of hang for a minute or two once the hibernation progress bar hits 100%. There's no activity from the machine at all during this time and then all the sudden windows just resumes as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.

I have not made any hardware or hardware driver changes in years so it shouldn't be a hardware or driver issue. I do have Norton Internet Security 2009 installed if that makes a difference.

Other than this the machine has been running fine with one exception. The other day the fans on the laptop went into high speed when the machine got hot and then never shut off. At the same time the CPU got stuck in low step state (800 Mhz and opposed to 1.86 GHz). A reboot fixed this and I haven't seen that again. When I ran the Dell diagnostic program all the tests on the processor and the fans passed so it looks like that was a one time glitch.

Any ideas why resuming gets stuck for so long?

06-30-2009, 12:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Morac Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 3 OS: XP SP3 My System	XP - Resuming from Hibernation frequently hangs for a minute I've been using the hibernation feature on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop for a number of years now and it's worked flawlessly until relatively recently. Lately upon resuming from hibernation, the machine will just kind of hang for a minute or two once the hibernation progress bar hits 100%. There's no activity from the machine at all during this time and then all the sudden windows just resumes as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. I have not made any hardware or hardware driver changes in years so it shouldn't be a hardware or driver issue. I do have Norton Internet Security 2009 installed if that makes a difference. Other than this the machine has been running fine with one exception. The other day the fans on the laptop went into high speed when the machine got hot and then never shut off. At the same time the CPU got stuck in low step state (800 Mhz and opposed to 1.86 GHz). A reboot fixed this and I haven't seen that again. When I ran the Dell diagnostic program all the tests on the processor and the fans passed so it looks like that was a one time glitch. Any ideas why resuming gets stuck for so long?