KB909095
Sunday 30th July, 2006 13:12 Comments: 0
I\'d never had this problem before, as I\'ve only ever had 512MB of RAM in my systems for the last 6 years or so, but it looks like computers with a large amount of RAM (e.g. more than 1GB) have trouble hibernating with Windows. With my new computer (2GB of RAM) I would occasionally get a balloon popup in the corner saying "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" so I decided to do a quick search with Google and came across KB909095.
The computer occasionally does not hibernate and you receive an "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" error message in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, or in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
It would appear that this is a known issue ("This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare the computer to hibernate"), but because it involves modifying some pretty important files, they\'re a bit reluctant to roll out the hotfix (it looks like it may appear in SP3, but that's ages away). You\'re meant to contact them for the file, but I managed to get it via other means ;) and I installed it last night. Since then, I\'ve not had any trouble hibernating my PC (although I\'ve only hibernated it twice so far), even with all my programs open - I found that closing stuff down would often help avoid the problem, but didn\'t always work. Anyway, if you also have trouble, the file you\'re after is WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe and you are meant to get it from Microsoft. They should provide it for free if you explain about the KB article/known issue/hotfix.
The computer occasionally does not hibernate and you receive an "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" error message in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, or in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
It would appear that this is a known issue ("This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare the computer to hibernate"), but because it involves modifying some pretty important files, they\'re a bit reluctant to roll out the hotfix (it looks like it may appear in SP3, but that's ages away). You\'re meant to contact them for the file, but I managed to get it via other means ;) and I installed it last night. Since then, I\'ve not had any trouble hibernating my PC (although I\'ve only hibernated it twice so far), even with all my programs open - I found that closing stuff down would often help avoid the problem, but didn\'t always work. Anyway, if you also have trouble, the file you\'re after is WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe and you are meant to get it from Microsoft. They should provide it for free if you explain about the KB article/known issue/hotfix.