Hibernate corrupts sound driver?

[DeerRaven]

Greetings all,

This has happened to me more than once. If I put my Windows XP machine into hibernation and keep it there for more than say, a day - every time I use it, I put it back into hibernation instead of shutting it down - I swear, the sound just up and disappears. All device drivers check out, there are no conflicts whatsoever. Usually, a system restore will fix the problem but today I had to reload the driver itself.

Is this just me or is it happening to other people too?

DeerRaven

[bbeard67]

Try playing a sound file with the volume all the way up
and put your ear as close to the speaker as possible you should hear the sound but very very faint.

Check for a xp driver update for your sound card

By the way is this a toshiba laptop

oh yeah, remember to turn your sound back down.

[DeerRaven]

By reinstalling the driver from the software CD but it just seems so weird to me that Hibernate should do this. Probably this is the third time I've had to deal with it because I get lazy and forget to do a complete shutdown at least once a day.

My machine is a Gateway Select 1100.

Don't you think this behavior is extremely strange?

DeerRaven

[bbeard67]

Restoring the driver from the cd probably won't solve your problem you need to update the driver.
Go to the gateway site below
http://support.gateway.com/support/

[Garry G. Green]

If your Windows installation is on a hard disk > 137GB, then I'm pretty sure what the problem is; if it isn't, I have no idea. Please post back if your windows install is in a disk > 137GB (that is the size of the physical disk, not the windows partition).

Originally Posted by DeerRaven

Greetings all,

This has happened to me more than once. If I put my Windows XP machine into hibernation and keep it there for more than say, a day - every time I use it, I put it back into hibernation instead of shutting it down - I swear, the sound just up and disappears. All device drivers check out, there are no conflicts whatsoever. Usually, a system restore will fix the problem but today I had to reload the driver itself.

Is this just me or is it happening to other people too?

DeerRaven

[Garry G. Green]

If the physical disk drive where Windows is installed is > 137GB and your Windows is not at SP2 or higher, then I would bet this is your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;331958

You can either apply SP2 which includes the fix for this problem, or install just this specific fix.

Do NOT do any more Hibernates until you have done so - otherwise your hard disk WILL experience data corruption. That means not maybe - it means it WILL. Now, if the hibernation data get written on top of, say, SOL.EXE, and you never play solitaire (SOL.EXE), then you won't notice the data corruption. Without this fix, the hiberate data used to resurrect your system is NOT written to the correct location on disk, but rather, to a wrong location, which more often than not, is on top of already existing files, and the location is constant. With me, it overwrote my networkl drivers. Interested to hear if this was the problem.

Originally Posted by Garry G. Green

If your Windows installation is on a hard disk > 137GB, then I'm pretty sure what the problem is; if it isn't, I have no idea. Please post back if your windows install is in a disk > 137GB (that is the size of the physical disk, not the windows partition).