Portege M300 - unable to hibernate or standy-by.

Hi,
I have very strange problem with my 2,5 years old Portege M300. For some time now I cannot hibernate or put it in stand-by mode. Everything goes as it should, "going to stand by" windows appears and computers dies, hdd led blinks every 10 seconds and nothing happens even if wait for hours.
It is the same with hibernation. It also sometimes happends that computer dies in similar way during regular job.
It almost looks like the hdd stopped working. I have done some basic hdd testing and it looks like everything is ok.
Do you have any ideas what could be the reason?
Regards
Blazej

Hi
When did you reinstall the OS?
Possibly its only a OS issue I mean its possible that your OS is muddled up and therefore some functions dont work as it should
At the other hand a hardware issue (i.e. HDD, memory) could be also possible.
But first of all if would be interesting to know if the notebook would functions after recovering.
Bye

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