What observation? That very few people use hibernation? I can break this laptop any time I want, simply by running that program. I have done it a dozen times, and as long as that program is not executed, then all is fine; reboot, hibernate, everything is fine. Same battery. I am not ready for some kid to tell me I must need a new battery, having not seen what I have seen. It is simply arr
That is simply arrogant. Few people on the planet have cut as much code as I have in almost forty years in the computer industry sweatshops all over the world. I'm not some idiot who is going to give up when one expert tells him to disengage the battery for thirty seconds to reset the bios, while another having misunderstood the advice, now is the instant expert trying to tell me I have a faulty battery that needs to be replaced. I don't think such a person can even conceieve of the many ways su
Actually I remember the boot swapper program ask I would allow it to become the boot file manager or something. When the system reboots perhaps Windows is set to try for another boot at any opportunity and the closing of the laptop lid is as good as any. It was all so easy in 95. Maybe Bill realized he was losing a lot of free advertising.
And that nasty battery only fails every time I install a boot pic, and then reboot, just to mess with my head. Something is happening in the start process that is bogus. If it were a bios problem aka battery, then how was it able to recover using the checkpoint restore facility in XP? No, there is more here than the eye can see, and it won't be the first or last time something simple has become a real humbling nightmare. How many people do you know who hibernate? I'm still waiting for
Boot skin program does not seem to support hibernation in XP. The gruesome story lies in another thread which in incorrectly titled blaming Logon Studio for the glitch.
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Z, If you just started your warranty, the manufacturer will talk you through correcting the problem, even if it means reinstalling the operating system and starting from scratch, or even shipping the iron off to Kentucky for a month to get fixed. If it's not a laptop, then maybe they'll talk you through a little home repair with the bios or whatever it is that has the system so crazy now. If it is an XP system then on the START menu is the Help and Support option and on that other threa
So. What's happening? What operating system is it? Did you get into the system in safe mode? If you can get into XP in safe mode this will be the solution (from HELP and SUPPORT: To run System Restore in safe mode Access System Restore through Help and Support. Follow the instructions on your screen. Notes ===== To access the System Restore Wizard, click Start, and then click Help and Support. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Using System Rest
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Reading it all again, I realize I was totally off by thinking Wombat was being malicious or flippant. If one has a laptop, out of warranty, and there seems no way to recover then it might be the last ditch solution. Fortunately XP Restore provides another less brutish solution, although I seriously wondered how well that would actually work. Against the wall we trust Bill and his boys. I guess you guys are not associated with the software offered here. I don't know how to report bugs or
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They void the warranty if you crack the seal. They ship you a box and you ship it back, wait and then it returns in three weeks - still busted. Last time I had one returned with a screw floating around inside, which got wedged in the fan blades a year later. Almost at the end of that five year warranty they had to give me a new machine six times more capable because they couldn't fix it in sixty days. I'm not jeopardizing another freeby three years from now for nothing. My last
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Oh Evil One, bearer of most exalted low number; I hardly think that one's longevity on a board has any bearing on anything. I know you should never give catastrophic advice in public where it will not be apparent to outsiders that it was really like a joke, dude. Sorry. Maybe like call the manufacturer or something, I guess, maybe. Tell them you have no idea what happened, and it's not like because you pried the notebook open and started screwing with its innards. Not everyone
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Turns out the problem is caused, fortunately, by the boot function. It must be setting some bit or not setting some bit (new schoolers read 'byte')somewhere that paralyzes the hibernate functionality. It fooled me because all seems fine until you reboot, then the machine won't hibernate on closing the lid. That boot Windows commercial doesn't last that long anyway and I only reboot maybe twice a month. Having the cool logon is great because that's what I see all the time. So, moral of t
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Funny. Even if it didn't kill the system, it would void the warranty just to get a pretty picture on the screen for a few seconds. You sound like one of the morons who thinks it's clever to hack into folks' computers and ruin their lives. Be sure no one takes that irresponsible advice.
Apparently, according to another thread of frustration we only get 50 megs until we cough up some cash. I wish I'd known at the start. I know what I really want now. Still can't believe I did 50 megs in a dozen 640x480 bitmaps and two logon packets. Maybe it is a daily quota or the system is sTreSsed.
THings were going well until I closed the lid and it would no longer hibernate. That is a very nice feature to lose. First I killed Sysmetrix but that wasn't it, and after a few tries to verify it, it seems very likely that it was logon studio that busted it. I do seem however to be able to make one studio change and kill studio leaving my new logon page and go back to the system restore at a point before studio. Instead of hibernating it just shuts 'er dowm. I have tried installing, uninstallin
