Hibernate problems in Dell laptop.
1111111I know that this post comes after a long gap, and I would like to explain this gap. But, I suppose that can wait anyway. The main purpose of this post is to give some information about something peculiar that I had observed.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100. Recently, my hard-drive crashed and I had to replace it. Thankfully, it was still in warranty. I decided to take this opportunity to experiment with a different operating system and decided to install Linux. I used a very popular distro Ubuntu. Installing Ubuntu was a breeze. I also needed Windows operating system to run some special software, and installed Windows as well. Then started the struggle. After installing both the operating systems, I would say that Ubuntu is far easier to install than Windows. Well, I'm digressing again. Let me get back to the topic.
I installed windows successfully, and after I was done with the session, I wanted to hibernate my computer. To my horror, I could not choose the hibernate option. I did a lot of Google search to figure out why this was happening. To no avail. In fact, one link hinted that my hardware did not support the hibernate function. But this was definitely not true. When I had bought the laptop, it had arrived with Windows preinstalled. This had the hibernate option, which I used extensively.
On a seemingly unrelated note, when I installed Windows, the drivers for various devices were not automatically installed. So, I had to manually install the drivers for various pieces of hardware. While doing this, I somehow missed installing my video graphics card, and consequently the video display was pretty bad, and any videos would frame. I realized this a little later, and when I installed the driver for the video graphics card, lo and behold, the hibernate option started showing up. I do not know how the graphics card and the hibernate option are tied together, but in this particular model of laptop, they are tied together. This is just one of those weird things, one has to accept, I guess.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100. Recently, my hard-drive crashed and I had to replace it. Thankfully, it was still in warranty. I decided to take this opportunity to experiment with a different operating system and decided to install Linux. I used a very popular distro Ubuntu. Installing Ubuntu was a breeze. I also needed Windows operating system to run some special software, and installed Windows as well. Then started the struggle. After installing both the operating systems, I would say that Ubuntu is far easier to install than Windows. Well, I'm digressing again. Let me get back to the topic.
I installed windows successfully, and after I was done with the session, I wanted to hibernate my computer. To my horror, I could not choose the hibernate option. I did a lot of Google search to figure out why this was happening. To no avail. In fact, one link hinted that my hardware did not support the hibernate function. But this was definitely not true. When I had bought the laptop, it had arrived with Windows preinstalled. This had the hibernate option, which I used extensively.
On a seemingly unrelated note, when I installed Windows, the drivers for various devices were not automatically installed. So, I had to manually install the drivers for various pieces of hardware. While doing this, I somehow missed installing my video graphics card, and consequently the video display was pretty bad, and any videos would frame. I realized this a little later, and when I installed the driver for the video graphics card, lo and behold, the hibernate option started showing up. I do not know how the graphics card and the hibernate option are tied together, but in this particular model of laptop, they are tied together. This is just one of those weird things, one has to accept, I guess.
posted by Niranjan at 9/27/2006 09:35:00 PM
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