After upgrading from Vista Home Premium SP2 to Win7 RC build 7100 (x86 version, not 64-bit version), I noticed that whenever my laptop went into hibernation mode on a timer (30min on battery, 60min plugged in), it would always start up with the menu for the 3 safe modes and start normally. After choosing to start windows normally, I log in and I'm immediately presented with the option to send more info in an error report, and I send the extra info. This problem doesn't exist when I push the hibernate button, in my case fn+F5. It also never existed under any circumstances when I used Vista. The way I have it set up now is: sleep - 10min (battery)/30min (plug in); no hybrid sleep for both; hibernate - 30min/60min; no wake timers for both, never turn off HDD for both. If it helps, here are some hardware specs from Win7's Device Manager: Intel Celeron M 530 processor (1.73GHz) 2GB DDR2 RAM 320GB Seagate HDD Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family As you can see, not a powerhouse, but it was still able to hibernate when I used Vista, and I'd like the ability to automatically hibernate back, since starting up from hibernation is much quicker than a cold start. Any help is greatly appreciated.I don't care about what anything is DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do. -Gene Kranz, Apollo 13

Hi There are many known issues with the Sleep/Hibernate compopnents in Windows 7. These issues only affect certain hardware configurations. The only thing we know for sure is that the beta teams are working with several hardware manufacturers to resolve these issues. Hopefully we will see a fix in the form of a compatibility update soon.If using the Hibernate with the fn+F5 works without problems, I recommend you use that until they find a fix.Hope this helps. Thank You for testing Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP

Well, fn+F5 used to work all the time, but now it's becoming sporadic, almost as if my pc wants to hibernate or not. Although, I can tell when it doesn't want to work. If it doesn't, the screen will turn off, but the power light and wi-fi light will stay on and blue (for my computer), with virtually no hard disk activity. After a fairly long time, everything turns off, so it looks like it hibernated, but when I go to turn it on, it really shut down improperly and I get the 3 safe modes and start normally. If hibernation actually does work, the screen will shut off, but the wi-fi light will turn red within less than 15 seconds of the screen powering off, which means the wi-fi chip is off and I'm disconnected from the network. There will be some hard drive activity, but nothing crazy, and once the HDD stops, it switches completely into hibernate mode. I'm not sure why it's becoming sporadic, I just hope Microsoft will release an update or two addressing this problem, because right now, that's the only feature that I had that worked well in Vista but now doesn't work in Win7.I don't care about what anything is DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do. -Gene Kranz, Apollo 13