I really re-boot my machine rarely. I just hibernate instead. After ugrading to 2 GB RAM hibernating stopped working though.
As booting up my machine may take 5-10 minutes I really hate to reboot.
Sure, I could try improving my machine’s boot-up time, but I’m doing
development stuff and need a lot of different services, databases
etc. to be running. Long time ago I found hibernating to be very
useful to save time here.
Hibernating your machine means that the current RAM and CPU state is
written to a file on your harddisk before the machine is switched off. Then
when you turn it on again, the state is read back, and you can continue to
work after a few seconds. Of course, saving your open documents before
hibernating is recommended…
Some time ago I upgraded my machine to 2GB RAM, which gave quite some
performance boost. Also my virtual machines can now run more “relaxed” – with
more RAM assigned that is. Unfortunately Windows came up with some wired error
message when I tried to hibernate at the end of the day. It was saying something
like “insuffcient ressources”. First I thought, something with my RAM is broken,
but after some Google-research, I found this to be a bug In Windows XP. If you
have more than 1 GB of RAM, then hibernate won’t work anymore.
Microsoft is aware of this bug and it even provides a hotfix for that
problem. For some unknown reason they make a big deal out of it and don’t offer
the patch publically. Thanks to Google, I found a download of this though, but
no luck: It checks the language version of Windows. I have a German Windows
….
Interestingly there was not a single trace that this bug is discussed
somewhere in German (can’t Germans afford more than 1 GB RAM ?), There is
just an ugly, automated translation of the corresponding KB
entry. Finally I contatced MS support in German asking for that patch in
German, and guess what? No later than 12 hours I had the German patch in my
mailbox. Everything works again.
If you have more than 1 GB RAM, and want to hibernate then
click below and contact Microsoft as explained to receive the patch – it
works!
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