Yesterday evening I tried to hibernate my XP before going to sleep. I need to go to bed early. Today was my first day in my new office (Yeah I'll tell about my new job sometime... ;) )
Of course, in situations like this, technology likes to let you down. And it did!
XP just hung pathetically on the "preparing to hibernate" screen.
How the hell was this possible??? I only spent the week-end browsing the web, downloading files I'd need at work (XP SP2 for starters, to avoid going through another one of these XP virus experiences...), reading email, etc... and on staurday evening it was still hibernating fine. Sunday: hang! hung! hung! stuck! No matter how often I rebooted and retried. How could this happen!?
Well... it took me a night and a day of background thinking to find the key...
While downloading I also installed NERO Burning ROM in order to burn those downloads onto a CD. You know, because the XP built in burning facility is kinda incomplete...
Well, at least the embedded one doesn't prevent hibernation! I uninstalled NERO and my XP was immediately able to hibernate again.
Thinking further I suspect that it is the mount-a-cd-image-as-a-drive feature that adds a borked device driver to XP and prevents it from hibernating gracefully. But I'm bored enough by this. I don't want to experiment any more.
Hey, I've got a daytime job again. No time for headaches at home! XX(
