ATi Driver deletes hibernation and messed the startup up.

Last night I shut down my computer instead of hibernating, because it wouldn't hibernate. I turned on my computer this morning and, in a 640x840 resolution, the tiger wall comes up. No Flyakite logon. I press the down key twice, press enter, enter my password, press enter, I'm logged on.

That was caused by a new install of the ATi Driver. My current one was damaged, so I reinstalled. Don't worry, I fixed that.

When I went to shut down when I was done, the stand by button was gone. Even pressing shift didn't make it come up. So I go to the power options settings (that's actually the window title). No hibernation tab.

Now I have to wait 12 minutes just for the computer to start. Hibernation made it only take 3 minutes to warm back up.

How do I get my beloved Hibernation back??? I will have to wait FOREVER to start up that stupid windows computer!!!

Please help!

Thanks to all who do help!!!

#418559

You should think of a good reformat if it takes 12 minutes to start up. 3 minutes from Hibernation is pretty slow too.

#418569

Vista messed up my standy, now takes about 5-10 minutes instead of 10 secs (both on and off) as i hae to shutdown

#418572

Compared to XP?

#418573

in XP standby worked and took a few seconds to go into standby and a few seconds back out. but the problem with vista may be due to ATi drivers for vista which is why i said it in first place, dont want to hijack thread here

#418574

It's a slow computer. Really slow.

Formatting deletes everything on the drive, right?

#418631

just out of curiosity...

in your add & remove, do u see any programe that name DAO that also part of ATI, should be remove as well when updating your driver

#418663