>Yep, Bill, part of what we did last night was to get rid of the hiberfil.sys file. I didn't mention it but that was what the tech from HP recommended, and yes, he was from India, but no accent over chat, only good English. I think the hiberfil.sys file was also hidden.

OK. I have seen that file cause problems before, and recreating did fix on those occasions.

My only other suggestion would be to remove any non Microsoft or non-HP hardware from the mix and see if that helps (I'm assuming you've already done that).

Past that, I'd yell at HP and tell them you want a fix - if they have no other suggestions then you want a replacement laptop.

I use hibernation on my laptops a LOT. Not fast like suspend/resume, but no dead battery after waiting too long either.

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>>Without having read the whole thread, have you tried deleting the hibernate file (hiberfile.sys) at the root of your boot drive? It can get corrupted and screw the hibernation process. Turn hibernation on after deleting the file and it will get re-created (cleanly hopefully).