Please Advise! Windows XP freezes returning from STANDBY, HIBERNATE or SIGN ON

Frustrated-Frustrated-
edited March 2005 in Science & Tech
When any user (Admin. or not) logs off their desktop, puts PC in standby, hibernate mode,or leaves PC on Sign On screen, and lets PC sit unattended for a while (couple of hours), Windows XP Home will freeze upon attempting to log back on with appropriate user password. The "Welcome" screen is blue with user log on logo and bubble stating, "Loading Personal Settings". The only way out is to hold power key until power is off and reboot. I believe this a serious problem and will cause more damage. If anyone has experienced this problem, PLEASE ADVISE! [/FONT] :help:

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  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    There is a hibernate patch at the Microsoft site:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=516ac7c6-1704-4631-afcf-652154534800
  • Frustrated-Frustrated-
    edited March 2005
    I'm not sure if you fully understand the problem. I can put the PC in Standby and I caqn put the PC in Hibernate, and I can just Log Off my Windows session. The problem is: When I come back from being in Standby, Hibernate, or just sitting on the Log On Screen; I click on a user logo/picture, enter appropriate password, and the screen then changes to the "Welcome"/"Loading Personal Settings" screen. At this point I do not hear the Windows "signing on" tune that I would normally hear and I then know that it is frozen. The only thing I can do is hold the power off/on button for eight seconds to turn it off and restart which the goes through the "Checkdisk" because Windows didn't shut down properly last time. My main concern is that this is a symptom of worse things to come and I would like to address it rather than just circumvent it. I hope this clarifies the exact nature of my problem!
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2005
    I think we understand the problem he's just metioning that there was a patch put out to specifically address those issues if you don't already have it.

    But asside from that can you use fast user switching to have multiple users logged in. If you don't know what that is say you log in as you, then hit [Windows button] + [L] that will take you to the windows log in screen pick another user and log them in. You now have to sessions running. If it's crashing at this point then standby/hibernation is not the problem.
  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    Well if the MS patch won't help you, I would a systen restore to a point, prior to when this sitution started. ..........Do you use RAID arrays?
  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    Check out this link..............Should help...............Google rules: :shoot:

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=hibernate%20xp
  • Frustrated-Frustrated-
    edited March 2005
    I don't have fast switching activated
  • Frustrated-Frustrated-
    edited March 2005
    I don't know what "RAID arrays" is.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2005
    Frustrated! wrote:
    I don't have fast switching activated


    That may be part of the problem because they are both going through the same user switching interface.
  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    (rād) Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers.
    There are number of different RAID levels:

    Level 0 -- Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance: Provides data striping (spreading out blocks of each file across multiple disk drives) but no redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver fault tolerance. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.
    Level 1 -- Mirroring and Duplexing: Provides disk mirroring. Level 1 provides twice the read transaction rate of single disks and the same write transaction rate as single disks.
    Level 2 -- Error-Correcting Coding: Not a typical implementation and rarely used, Level 2 stripes data at the bit level rather than the block level.
    Level 3 -- Bit-Interleaved Parity: Provides byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. Level 3, which cannot service simultaneous multiple requests, also is rarely used.
    Level 4 -- Dedicated Parity Drive: A commonly used implementation of RAID, Level 4 provides block-level striping (like Level 0) with a parity disk. If a data disk fails, the parity data is used to create a replacement disk. A disadvantage to Level 4 is that the parity disk can create write bottlenecks.
    Level 5 -- Block Interleaved Distributed Parity: Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 is one of the most popular implementations of RAID.
    Level 6 -- Independent Data Disks with Double Parity: Provides block-level striping with parity data distributed across all disks.
    Level 0+1 – A Mirror of Stripes: Not one of the original RAID levels, two RAID 0 stripes are created, and a RAID 1 mirror is created over them. Used for both replicating and sharing data among disks.
    Level 10 – A Stripe of Mirrors: Not one of the original RAID levels, multiple RAID 1 mirrors are created, and a RAID 0 stripe is created over these.
    Level 7: A trademark of Storage Computer Corporation that adds caching to Levels 3 or 4.
    RAID S: EMC Corporation's proprietary striped pairty RAID system used in its Symmetrix storage systems.
  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    Most RAID arrays don't play well together w/ Standby, Hibernate. Most of the time XP will alert you of any conflicts.

    I would still pick a restore point, prior to your conflict and backtrack your problem.
  • Frustrated-Frustrated-
    edited March 2005
    After numerous hours of failure to resolve the problem, I resorted to a clean re-inatall of Win XP.

    MY PC originally came with ME preloaded from Dell. They offered a free upgrade to Win XP Home. It came with no install instructions. I'm definitely not a techie, and when I called them for help on upgrading, they instructed me to install over ME. BIG MISTAKE!!

    I ended up adding 120GB HD, 512MB RAM and a DVD Burner. I loaded XP Home on the new (master) 120GB HD with the old 40GB HD disconnected, re-loaded all my software (took a long time!), re-connected the old 40GB HD as slave, and moved files from slave to master HD. PC is working great! And fast! :lalala: :horn:

    I've been advised to get Norton Ghost or similar program to burn a copy of my system when completed for future re-installs if needed.

    Can anyone recommed the best program for this purpose?
  • verselloversello New
    edited March 2005
    Frustrated! wrote:
    After numerous hours of failure to resolve the problem, I resorted to a clean re-inatall of Win XP.

    MY PC originally came with ME preloaded from Dell. They offered a free upgrade to Win XP Home. It came with no install instructions. I'm definitely not a techie, and when I called them for help on upgrading, they instructed me to install over ME. BIG MISTAKE!!

    I ended up adding 120GB HD, 512MB RAM and a DVD Burner. I loaded XP Home on the new (master) 120GB HD with the old 40GB HD disconnected, re-loaded all my software (took a long time!), re-connected the old 40GB HD as slave, and moved files from slave to master HD. PC is working great! And fast! :lalala: :horn:

    I've been advised to get Norton Ghost or similar program to burn a copy of my system when completed for future re-installs if needed.

    Can anyone recommed the best program for this purpose?


    Ahh, yes, doing an operating system upgrade is almost never reccomended. Especially when you have Windows ME installed!

    Anyways, for your program reccomendation, I too would reccomend Norton Ghost.
  • LINLIN Tri_State Area
    edited March 2005
    i couldn't deal with Norton Ghost. i found Acronis True Image more to my liking.


    LIN
  • bobbycanadabobbycanada Sea Cliff, N.Y.
    edited March 2005
    Does Acronis True Image 8.0 play well w/ RAID or any SATA issues
  • HawkHawk Fla Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Raid doesn't matter. Your's aren't raided. And the Dell Dimensions 4300 do not have SATA drives installed in them. So, There should be no problem using Acronis True Image.
    It picks up SATA & Raid partitions anyway, even if you did have it.
  • LINLIN Tri_State Area
    edited March 2005
    Acronis True Image 8.0 recognizes all hard disks connected to the PC, along with a wide variety of removable media drives with P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, USB, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and PCMCIA interfaces, including CD-ROM / DVD-ROM and CD-R(W) recorders and burners, magneto-optical drives, Zip and Jaz devices, and many others.

    shouldn't be a problem..

    [ you beat me to it, Hawk ] :cool:


    LIN
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