Hello all!

My laptop, a Toshiba Portégé M700 wont start up after hibernation. Whenever I close my lid to the laptop, it goes into hibernation and then when I open the lid, it goes to the page that says Restarting Computer and has the little time bar that finishes but after that, the screen just goes black and nothing happens. If I WANT to turn the computer on, I have to force quit the computer and then do a full restart and that takes ages to do.

I went to the IRC channel yesterday and Milkman helped me trying to fix it, but apparently the fix didnt work We tried to update my video CARD and we tried to give my laptop more space for the visual memory but that didnt work either.

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Thanks for the help guys!When did this start to happen? Did you install any software?

Have your run scandisk/ chkdisk to check for corrupt entries in your HD? Have you also run system FILE checker to ensure that all of Windows file is intact?It started just a few months ago and I think it started after I did a disk defrag and used a registry CLEANER since my computer was really really slow. Ill do a scandisk now to see whats up1) NEVER use registry cleaners
2) NEVER listen to people in CHAT. What would your video card have to do with this problem??
3) What OS?Its XP and i just did the scandisk and no problems were found....

I did undo the things the registry cleaner did since the program had a back up. I thought that might fix the problem but that didnt.

I think he thought the video card was faulty since I had a black screen.First, Hibernation has always been somewhat problematical. It works fine for some and causes headaches for others. But since it worked for your you prior to the registry CLEANING here's what I suggest.

1) Go into bios and make sure your optical drive is the first device in the boot order
2) Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /r (I don't know how you ran "scandisk", but this is the correct way to check and repair the HD).
3) Do a repair install. Boot to the XP CD and choose the SECOND repair option. XP will install on top of itself replacing all missing or changed system files.
4) After doing the repair install you'll need to go to Windows Update and download & install all updates.

Then let's see where we are with hibernate.