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Hibernation is an inactive computer state in which RAM contents have been saved to non-volatile memory, allowing the computer to completely power down.

Hibernation is an inactive computer state in which contents have been saved to non-volatile memory (such as a ). This allows the computer to completely power down, while maintaining running programs.

Hibernation serves the same purpose as mode. Hibernation takes longer to suspend and resume, but uses no power (so a hibernated computer can be stored indefinitely or its battery can be removed).

Windows PCs and Macs have a feature ("Hybrid Sleep" on Windows) which allows a combination of sleep and hibernate where the computer sleeps but also copies the contents of the RAM to disk, in case of power failure.

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Why are computers slow to come back from hibernate?

Hibernation is supposed to write out RAM contents to disk, and coming back from hibernation is supposed to fill back RAM with saved contents. Why is coming back from hibernation slow, e.g. system is very unresponsive in general for quite some time?
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Why does my Windows 10 Laptop fail to hibernate sometimes?

After I click 'Hibernate', my laptop does hibernate, but only sometimes. Other times, the screen immediately fades black. But then the power button stays illuminated, and 10 s later (after I clicked 'Hibernate') the screen reappears, with everything…
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Do VRAM/Registers get saved when hibernating?

When a computer goes into ACPI S4 state it saves its RAM contents to disk and shuts down. But what happens to registers, VRAM, or volatile memory inside extension cards or similar?
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hibernate: can it damage a hard disk

I have been told by someone quite knowledgeable in PC's that placing a PC into hibernate mode can be detrimental to a hard disk or the MBR (Master Boot Record) can be damaged and so cause some havoc. I wondered if this is actually true? Is there…
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Reboot the computer from a saved hiberfil.sys file

I just powered on my system from hibernation and I accidentally deleted an unsaved work. My system is still on with the hibernation file still in use.The unsaved work is actually a write up on my site that I didn't upload online
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AVD uses 100% CPU after PC`s hibernation, how to solve?

When I hibernate my PC with running AVD and turn it on later, AVD uses 100% CPU and there are hard lags. How to solve this one if I want to continue using hibernation?
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Gateway NV52 won't hibernate when pressing power button or closing lid

I was having a problem with my Gateway laptop not resuming from hibernate. I researched the problem and tried resetting the hibernate file size with powercfg which seems to have solved that problem but created a new one. Now, even though I have…
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Why does 'Powercfg -requestsoverride Driver "Legacy Kernel Caller" System' fail to let my laptop hibernate?

Please see the screenshot beneath: my 4 inputs failed to solve the difficulty identical to this post. When I tried to 'Hibernate' after inputting it, my laptop still failed to hibernate. Here's my energy-report.html. Wake Timers have been…
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Windows 10 v 1709 breaks out of hibernate; is it "DmClientOnScenarioDownload"?

I have three Dell computers that are breaking out of hibernate sporadically. The current "superuser" resolutions have been tried and failed. I searched for an Event Viewer entry for 11/11/2017 (04:18:xx) and then looked at Task Scheduler. I…
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save hibernation/saved state on linux

On linux you can hibernate/save the state. Is there someway I can save this to the internet or to a pendrive so that when I use a different PC running linux I can start where I left off?
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Laptop wakes from hibernation by itself

Possible Duplicate: How do I determine the cause of resuming from hibernation in Windows 7? I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. First I was having a problem with the machine waking from sleep mode by itself. I went through…
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How to get suspend and hibernate option back?

I have a strange problem, I could hibernate my laptop before but for some reason hibernate and suspend doesn't exist at all and error when I close the laptop lid I see the error "failed to suspend". can someone guide me get the suspend, hibernate…
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Windows 10 v 1709 (Fall Creators) waking randomly from hibernation

I have three Dell Desktop PCs on Windows 10 v 1709, waking randomly from hibernation. The Windows 10 v 1703 was performing OK. The solutions posted in Superuser were not effective. When the Task Scheduler explorer tree was expanded and…
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using hibernation to transfer computer state from one computer to another

I had an idea and I'm wondering how possible it is. If I were to hibernate a computer, then remove it's hard drive and put it into another computer with identical hardware, would it be able to resume? If that is possible, how impracticable would it…
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