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re: How to come out of hibernation Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 6:55 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Hibernation does shut the computer down totally, perhaps you mean standby. It may be a BIOS issue or a driver problem. What does your PC maker have to say? On Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 5:53 pm, Brock Jones wrote: >I know how to put my computer (winxp) in hibernation and to activate it but I can't >find anything that says how to restart it. I push the power button and nothing happens >unless I hold it for five seconds and totally shutdown the computer. I can't find >this on google or on the help page of winxp. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to come out of hibernation Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:16 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) That's because it has nothing to do with settings in XP, it's in the BIOS setup. Also be aware that hibernation does not work well on most machines. I'm thankful that it does work on mine. On Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 5:53 pm, Brock Jones wrote: >I know how to put my computer (winxp) in hibernation and to activate it but I can't >find anything that says how to restart it. I push the power button and nothing happens >unless I hold it for five seconds and totally shutdown the computer. I can't find >this on google or on the help page of winxp. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum