You're checking Event Viewer after waking your PC from hibernation, and you spot 0x4000002B with the message STATUS_RESUME_HIBERNATION. Maybe you saw it in a Blue Screen View log or a startup event. Don't panic. This is not an error—it's an informational status code that means the system woke up successfully from hibernation.
I've seen people spend hours chasing this as a problem. It isn't one. The code comes straight from the Windows kernel (ntstatus.h) where STATUS_RESUME_HIBERNATION is defined as 0x4000002B. The 0x4000 prefix marks it as a success-with-info status, not a failure. Compare that to actual error codes like 0xC0000005 (access violation) or 0xC00000F4 (disk failure), which start with 0xC0. Different range, different meaning.
When exactly does this appear?
You'll see it in these places:
- Event Viewer under Windows Logs – System, with Source
Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General. - System Information or boot logs if you have verbose logging enabled.
- Bugcheck analysis tools like BlueScreenView – but only as a context entry, not a crash.
It fires every time you close your laptop lid and Windows hibernates, then open it again. Also when you manually choose Sleep, then the system goes to hibernation after a timeout (hybrid sleep), and you turn the machine back on. If you never hibernate, you won't see it.
Root cause: nothing's broken
The root cause is that your PC successfully read the hibernation file (C:\hiberfil.sys) from the drive, restored RAM contents, and handed control back to Windows. That's it. It's the digital equivalent of a checkout receipt after buying groceries—proof the transaction went through.
Windows uses hibernation to save power. When you hibernate, it writes everything in RAM to disk. On resume, it loads that file back. The 0x4000002B code is just the kernel saying "Job done."
How to confirm it's harmless (2 steps)
- Open Event Viewer – Press Win + R, type
eventvwr.msc, and hit Enter. - Find the event – Go to
Windows Logs > System. ClickFilter Current Logon the right. In the Event ID field, type16(that's the ID for STATUS_RESUME_HIBERNATION). Click OK. You'll see a list. Double-click any entry. The Description field should say: The system was resumed from hibernation. If it says0x4000002Bthere, you're done.
After doing this, you'll see the event is labeled as "Information" in the Level column, not "Error" or "Warning." That's your final confirmation.
When should you worry?
If you also see actual errors right before or after this code—like 0x0000009F (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE) or 0x000000A0 (INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR)—then the hibernation resume itself might have had issues. But the 0x4000002B alone is never the culprit. Chase those other codes instead.
Quick tip from 15 years of doing this: If you're convinced something's wrong with your PC's sleep behavior, don't look at this event. Look at Kernel-Power event ID 42 (system entering sleep) or event ID 507 (system returned from sleep). Those tell you what actually went wrong.
If you still want to stop seeing it
You can't suppress kernel events without third-party tools, and I don't recommend it. Ignore it. The only way to not see this event is to disable hibernation entirely:
- Open Command Prompt as admin (right-click Start, choose Terminal Admin).
- Type
powercfg /h offand press Enter. - Reboot. The
hiberfil.sysfile gets deleted. No more hibernation, no more resume events.
But that also means you lose Fast Startup (Windows uses the hibernation file for that). If you like booting fast, leave hibernation on and learn to live with this harmless code.
Still not convinced?
If you're seeing this in a bugcheck analysis and it's the only code listed, you might have a false positive from parsing tools. Check the actual crash dump with WinDbg: open the .dmp file, run !analyze -v. If the bugcheck code starts with 0x0 or 0x1, then the system didn't crash—your tool misread the log. That's rare but happens with some older versions of BlueScreenView.
Bottom line: 0x4000002B is proof your laptop woke up fine. Stop worrying, start working.