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Endless Hibernation Loop

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Name: Greg
Date: July 2, 2003 at 10:16:19 Pacific
Subject: Endless Hibernation Loop
OS: Windows 3.1
CPU/Ram: Pentium 133

Comment:

This is the second time this has happened to me and I am extremely frusturated. I have a ThinkPad 365X Laptop and just completed installing Windows 3.11. Everything works fine for some time, and eventually I'll get a message asking me to enable Hibernation mode.
After I hit okay, it launches into Hibernation mode. A white ThinkPad hibernation picture fills the screen and a hard drive memory saving icon is shown, followed by the ThinkPad powering off. When I turn on my ThinkPad, then normal boot screen shows and then displays the white hibernation screen. My previous state - Windows 3.1 - is loaded for about 5 seconds. Immediately after, the white hibernation screen appears and the computer shuts off.
I have yet to find a way to stop this endless loop.
To fix the problem last time, I put in a new hard drive and reinstalled Windows. Everything was fine until it asked me to enable hibernation, which I regrettedly did again. Now I am left with no hard drives to swap and have a useless laptop. Does ANYONE know how to fix something like this? Thanks in advance.

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Response Number 1

Name: sseamans
Date: July 2, 2003 at 10:25:25 Pacific

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just boot from a floppy then format the drive and reinstall and when it asked you about hibernation mode just dont do it

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Response Number 2

Name: Greg
Date: July 2, 2003 at 10:31:58 Pacific

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I am unable to boot from a floppy. I put in a DOS boot disk and it ignores it and goes right to the hibernation resume screen.

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Response Number 3

Name: Z Furman
Date: July 3, 2003 at 08:05:12 Pacific

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Hi Greg:
I'm not familiar with laptops but have you tried to open bios to see if there's any setting that control power management, if so try turning it off. Then try a clean install of OS after format, hope you have a backup of your data.
Good luck,
Z

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Response Number 4

Name: Soedesh
Date: July 3, 2003 at 19:13:11 Pacific

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I have a Thinkpad 770 myself and for settings like this you need to download and install a configuration program.
This program can be downloaded from the IBM site.
Did you look there for your model Thinkpad already?

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Response Number 5

Name: Matt wizza 1
Date: July 7, 2003 at 04:33:33 Pacific

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Hi,
If you cant boot from from the dos disk and you want to get to the dos prompt to format the hard disk, just keep pressing Control c untill you are asked if you want to continue loading windows or go to the dos prompt. When you are there just type in Format C:\
Hope it works.

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