By default, Hibernate isnotactive in Windows 8 Power options.

Most of the times it is solved if you use the latest RTM version of Windows 8.

But sometimes theWindows 8 Hibernate problemcauses more headache then the learning curve.

This will be useful if you dont want to go through the unnecessary stuff and directly find a solution.

Windows then will display a memory dump error.c’mon help, could this be a driver issue?

Solution :

The solution to this kind of problem is simple.

All you have to do is patch your BIOS at dell.com.

The new A12 BIOS was released on 26/10.

The refreshing thing about this update is you do not have to re-install Windows 8.

It is a quick process and you will not notice anything different with your startup.

Just trigger the .exe installer from dell website and hola, you are done.

Sometimes after updating the A12 BIOS you better choose the option refresh my pc without affecting my file option.

This will put your laptop to normal and no more BSOD issues.

This can be mainly due to conflicting programs or applications you have installed.

Some users found this conflict with the following applications.

The simple solution is to remove these programs and try the sleep or hibernate feature again.

Users on the forum reported that the problem is gone when you remove such conflicting applications.

(beware its not Windows 8 apps, its Windows 7/Vista/XP etc applications).

The post is quoted below :

Wake PC from sleep and it reboots everytime.

Just noticed that theres a Kernel Power 41 event viewer log.

Anyone experience this issue?

Im willing to guess its the chipset drivers since everything else seems to check out fine for me.

Running on:Phenom II X4 965 BEAsus M4a89gtd pro/usb38GB RamAsus GTX470 vcard850watt Corsair PSU.

The solution was not so easy as expected.

After debugging the crash logs, the error was found to be lack of storage drivers.

There was only Kernel Power 41 event viewer log for this error and no dump files.

So primarily it was thought it was only a restart problem, but later found out that its crashing.

Anyhow the problem was not completely gone.

It was partially resolved by installing JMicron Storage Drivers and after removing FinalWire utility and updating RealTek Codecs.