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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.