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Hibernate Cycles back on
My D820 has this new issue. When I shut down to hibernate or press the Fn-F1 key the computer will display the going to Hibernate screen temporarily but then flash back to the full on desktop display. I have looked at running tasks, process, and services and cannot find anything strange there that would seem to keep the computer from wanting to go to hibernate.
I disabled and then re-enabled hibernate mode....still no fix
I defragged the HD, that did not fail.
I booted to setup and checked setup items that might sound like they would be interfering, such as wake on lan or something of that sort. I could not find anything there. I must also say that I have not made any changes to setup in over a year; so I cannot imagine anything there having this effect. I have, of course, added software over the past few months, but I can't think of anything here having the effect.
BTW...Standby seems to work. But what I don't now yet is if I leave the computer idle in standby for a length of time, if it will process on to off.
Anyone with ideas of what to check.....BTW I'm using XP pro, SP3.
JV6
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July 5th, 2010 17:00
Solved the issue. It was some kind of malware. Tough to get rid of.
I noticed that the svchost that loads most of the services for network and internet was running crazy. Sometimes the memory used would go up to 150K with 20% of the CPU used. I checked it using Systernal's Process Explorer and noticed how ( in the TCPIP tab) that my comp was make a lot of internet connections to somewhere.
I had scanned with ESET nothing there. Malware Anti Bytes didn; help. I ran HijackThis and surveyed the log, but couldn't find anything interesting to delete. Finally I browsed around to GeeksToGo http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38 . A little reading and I decided to download and run ComboFix.exe. That seemed to really work.
I just deleted ESET AV and went to Microsoft Essentials (Recommended by GeeksToGo).
Happy Now :emotion-1: