looking for a better explaination of how power management works

On XP HE, I've set up the pwr mgmt criteria from my user account which still
has admin privs. I've set 15 mins(monitor)/25 disks/45 stnby/2 hrs hiber).
1) I'm trying to figure out if (monitor off & drives off) = standby, or if
standby means more?
2) Also, once it goes into standy will it auto wake up to go into Hibernate
after 2hrs?
3) Does not seem to be the case, but I haven't actually timed it yet.
Seems to stay in standby until I specifically make it hibernate???

Thanks,

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:05:27 -0800 from CS
<CS@discussions.microsoft.com>:
> On XP HE, I've set up the pwr mgmt criteria from my user account which still
> has admin privs. I've set 15 mins(monitor)/25 disks/45 stnby/2 hrs hiber).
> 1) I'm trying to figure out if (monitor off & drives off) = standby, or if
> standby means more?

This is one of two standby states; see
<http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm>.

> 2) Also, once it goes into standy will it auto wake up to go into Hibernate
> after 2hrs?

My laptop does exactly that.

> 3) Does not seem to be the case, but I haven't actually timed it yet.
> Seems to stay in standby until I specifically make it hibernate???

Hmm -- suppose you make the hibernate interval shorter than the
standby interval. (Wil it let you?) What happens then? And can you
hiberante the computer manually?

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

Yes it works manually just fine. I'll play with the time & settings.
Thanks for the link!
c

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:05:27 -0800 from CS
> <CS@discussions.microsoft.com>:
>> On XP HE, I've set up the pwr mgmt criteria from my user account which
>> still
>> has admin privs. I've set 15 mins(monitor)/25 disks/45 stnby/2 hrs
>> hiber).
>> 1) I'm trying to figure out if (monitor off & drives off) = standby, or
>> if
>> standby means more?
>
> This is one of two standby states; see
> <http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm>.
>
>> 2) Also, once it goes into standy will it auto wake up to go into
>> Hibernate
>> after 2hrs?
>
> My laptop does exactly that.
>
>> 3) Does not seem to be the case, but I haven't actually timed it yet.
>> Seems to stay in standby until I specifically make it hibernate???
>
> Hmm -- suppose you make the hibernate interval shorter than the
> standby interval. (Wil it let you?) What happens then? And can you
> hiberante the computer manually?
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/