>It asks me to log in, which I do. AND THEN IT RETURNS ME TO MY
>SESSION! All my previously opened apps, their state, everything. And
>I was able to work for about 5 min before the BSOD again.
>
>How can a PC do that? I thought that when you shut it down,
>especially if you remove the battery, that it clears RAM. Where is it
>storing my session? Is there some ROM session storage that's going
>on?
As others have said you're probably hibernating.
"Hibernate" is different from "Stand By" (sometimes called "Sleep") - Stand By
puts the computer into a low-power mode. You're current information is still
in RAM but your screen, disks, etc are shut down.
Hibernating copies the current state of your RAM to disk then shuts down your
PC completely. When you reboot Windows sees the RAM image there and reloads it.
In your case I could see a few potential areas of investigation:
+) This could just be a bad image - it might be corrupted somehow. A clean
reboot ("shut down" rather than hibernate) may resolve the problem.
+) Run a disk and memory check. If you've a bad sector on the disk your
hibernation image might be corrupt when you come back. If you've a bad sector
in memory it will be saved as-is to the disk.
+) It's probably obvious but for Hibernate to work you need enough disk space
to store your RAM image (if you've got two Gig of RAM you need two Gig of disk
space to hibernate). If you're pushing it on free space this might cause
problems (even if it's just pushing the RAM image onto a rarely used bad disk
sector).
+) There's also just the sad fact that some systems don't support hibernate
very well. This is usually seen in older BIOSes - perhaps there's an updated
version available?
Hope this helps,
Jim Davis
Jim Davis
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