Problem: Thinkpad T23 recently started pseudo hibernating when previously it worked before...
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 8 00:46:23 UTC 2008
On 11/07/2008 06:17 AM, John Toliver wrote:
> I have recently started having problems with hibernation. This is problem
> doesn't occur each time I hibernate my machine but it has been happening
> more frequently. I will select the off button and the screen to select what
> you wish to do comes up. I select Hibernate and then the screen blanks and
> the machine appears to be going into hibernation. What has happened is
> after about 30 seconds, or however long it takes to move 1GB of ram onto the
> HDD, it will then popup the password box asking you to enter your
> credentials before restoring the desktop.
>
> If you can imagine a successful hibernation and poweroff, and then pressing
> the powerbutton again and having the machine reboot and go to the "enter
> password to wakeup" screen. Now imagine the whole boot process being
> skipped and it goes 1. click hibernate 2. screen blanks 3. lots of HDD
> activity 4. enter password to wakeup"
>
> This is really bad because unless you are expecting to fight with this, you
> can be rushing, and expect that it will turn itself off and shove it in your
> bag and go. After 30-45 minutes of driving you arrive at your destination
> with a warm brief case and almost dead battery.
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated.
>
> My System specs are:
> Thinkpad T23
> 1.13Ghz PIII
> 1GB Ram
> 40GB HDD
> Hardy 2.6.24-19-generic
>
No problems on A21M, T21, and T30's that I have.
If it just recently started you might review any changes that you've
made recently: updates, power-management etc.
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