My Satellite A100 would not hibernate

Hello,
My notebook would not hibernate when I activate in the windows tool bar.
When I activate the hibernation it will process normaly but when the monitor takes blue and said "prepare hibernate" the monitor or system do not shoutdown(turn off),Why?
Is the same for suspend mode.
I made a investigation on my notebook and see that i have the hibernation mode activated in the panel control > Energy Setings > Hibernation
My notebook is a Satellite A100.
Sorry for my english.
Thanks a lott!

Hi buddy,
sometimes such hibernation/suspend problems are caused by some programs which cannot be closed from vista. Or your toshiba powersaver is malfunctioning, maybe some settings were
misconfigured through what-I-know-what program or something else.
I suggest you firstly: When you try to hibernate/suspend, then try pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE to see which applications are STILL running. Try to close the apps sequentially to
see when the machine will then really hibernate. If this doesnt helped you, then try to reinstall the powersave (first uninstall it properly from your system) and give some
feedback whats happening.
Greetz

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