Daydreamer
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I'm having a REALLY annoying problem. Quite simply, my laptop hibernates randomly without warning when I'm doing something!
I'm running a Vista Home Premium on an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop (it came with vista) and I started noticing the problem when I started playing Tomb Raider Underworld, and it would just randomly hibernate. The thing gets REALLY hot when I play games so I just assumed it was some kind of overheating problem, because it didn't hibernate so much when I took breaks from playing it.
But how overheated can it get when I'm just surfing the net?! It hibernated 4 times on me yesterday and I felt like taking an axe to this thing!! :@
I even tried turning off the hibernation option through the command prompt, but that didn't help - instead of hibernating, it shut off completely! The screen just went black and instead of taking a minute to save everything to memory, it just turned off completely! When I restarted the laptop it started up as usual, with no error message or anything. (I re-enabled the hibernation option after that)
I read somewhere that it was possible to disable the shutdown option through the group policy settings, but when I tried to open up the settings, I got this message:
MMC cannot open the file C:\Windows\system32\gpedit.msc.
This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file.
At one point I tried using the Windows memory diagnostics tool, just for the heck of it to see if there was something wrong. I have no idea what happened - it said it would restart when the scan was done so I went off somewhere but when I came back the thing had turned off.
Is this an overheating problem or is it something else? I mean I noticed some odd things about my Vista - for one thing when I bought the laptop the help and support stuff never worked until I upgraded to SP1. I'd really love some help on this!
I'm running a Vista Home Premium on an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop (it came with vista) and I started noticing the problem when I started playing Tomb Raider Underworld, and it would just randomly hibernate. The thing gets REALLY hot when I play games so I just assumed it was some kind of overheating problem, because it didn't hibernate so much when I took breaks from playing it.
But how overheated can it get when I'm just surfing the net?! It hibernated 4 times on me yesterday and I felt like taking an axe to this thing!! :@
I even tried turning off the hibernation option through the command prompt, but that didn't help - instead of hibernating, it shut off completely! The screen just went black and instead of taking a minute to save everything to memory, it just turned off completely! When I restarted the laptop it started up as usual, with no error message or anything. (I re-enabled the hibernation option after that)
I read somewhere that it was possible to disable the shutdown option through the group policy settings, but when I tried to open up the settings, I got this message:
MMC cannot open the file C:\Windows\system32\gpedit.msc.
This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file.
At one point I tried using the Windows memory diagnostics tool, just for the heck of it to see if there was something wrong. I have no idea what happened - it said it would restart when the scan was done so I went off somewhere but when I came back the thing had turned off.
Is this an overheating problem or is it something else? I mean I noticed some odd things about my Vista - for one thing when I bought the laptop the help and support stuff never worked until I upgraded to SP1. I'd really love some help on this!
