Laptop going bad (maybe)...what might be getting sick?

LOL ... rainy day ... stuck in the shop ... insatiable curiosity.



I did some research on win 7 & the hibefil issue this morning. Did a long post earlier but it got lost when my internet service went down.

Hibernation is pretty much what you described. Stuff gets loaded into memory and the computer shuts down.

Sleep mode seems to be more of a reduced power consumption setting where it powers down the hard drive ?

Hybrid sleep is an option that doesn't seem to be all that common so it probably doesn't apply to you.

Check out your power options though. See if it's going into hibernate or sleep mode. ie: It might say that hibernate kicks in after 15 minutes of inactivity and sleep mode is set to never kick in. It all depends on what it's set to do.

As far as i know cache size doesn't play a factor in the mix with hiberfil. I think that's more of a pagefile.sys & virtual memory kinda thing but i could be wrong.