Recently my computer was randomly turning off. I updated the bios and this seemed to fix the problem but now when I hibernate, 1 in 3 times or so, it seems to just shutdown, although it always says "hibernating." Upon powering it back on, it will say windows recovered from an unexpected shutdown. Would a dying cmos battery cause this? Any other ideas?

asus eeepc 1005ha netbook

9/8/2011 9:02:46 AM

I've always heard hibernating wasn't that great to begin with and kills your hard drive. Just hearsay though.

9/8/2011 10:13:51 AM

may I hijack?

often, when I put by notebook to sleep (Dell M1530 W7) I can't get it to wake unless I reboot...

9/8/2011 10:20:39 AM

What OSs are y'all running?

9/8/2011 1:15:23 PM

usually in my experience, any hibernating or putting to sleep issues usually revolves around driver issues. Does this only happens when the netbook is on battery power or plugged in or it doesn't matter?

9/8/2011 6:21:54 PM

windows 7 32bit
will try while it is plugged in

9/8/2011 6:53:08 PM

Dell M1530 W7
driver issue sounds correct for mine - the HDD spins, etc. just no display on the monitor. does it plugged in.... it's never on battery anymore so I don't know. I thought I had tried reinstalling the display driver... i'll try again

9/8/2011 8:08:06 PM

check to see whats running in the background. I remember one time, my system wouldn't go to sleep due to some power management service running in the background, but that was on a winxp system, not win7. Nonetheless, a good place to look if other issues come back negative.

A quick search pulled up this... but not sure if this would be related at all. wireless network power management issue?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918837

9/9/2011 5:09:52 AM