RE: Problem with Vista's "sleep" function or me?

No No No NEVER USE SLEEP MODE AND PUT YOUR NOTEBOOK AWAY! ONLY use
Hibernation that is the ONLY time you put it away. Hibernation powers down
your pc to resume like you never turnd it off sleep mode is what you use if
your going to walk away from your notebook for a wile or somthing of that
nature

"koch" wrote:

>
> Mark Conrad's post asking how to hack Vista to hibernate reminded me of
> a situation I encountered several months ago.
>
> Here's the gist of it: I put my laptop to sleep, packed it up into my
> backpack within a booq sleeve, and approximately 30 minutes later took
> it out of the backpack to use again. The problem was that my laptop had
> overheated during this relatively short period of time, and became so
> hot that I could smell burning plastic. Fortunately, I restarted the
> computer in time to get the fan going and there wasn't any permanent
> damage done.
>
> Question: what did I do wrong? Should I have NOT left my laptop in this
> state, enclosed, for this period of time? I assumed that Vista's "sleep"
> was the new "hibernate" and that it was safe to keep it in this state,
> certainly for 30 minutes or longer. I've subsequently avoided using
> sleep since, but I would really like to start using this feature again.
>
>
> --
> koch
>

Hibernation settings don't work either, the same failures as Sleep.
Wakes right back up at an arbitrary interval.
Drives me nuts. Too much work for something that doesn't work.

"NightRaven360" <NightRaven360@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8C242EBF-8C03-4A9F-8EF3-112B5FC58573@microsoft.com...
> No No No NEVER USE SLEEP MODE AND PUT YOUR NOTEBOOK AWAY! ONLY use
> Hibernation that is the ONLY time you put it away. Hibernation powers down
> your pc to resume like you never turnd it off sleep mode is what you use
> if
> your going to walk away from your notebook for a wile or somthing of that
> nature
>
> "koch" wrote:
>
>>
>> Mark Conrad's post asking how to hack Vista to hibernate reminded me of
>> a situation I encountered several months ago.
>>
>> Here's the gist of it: I put my laptop to sleep, packed it up into my
>> backpack within a booq sleeve, and approximately 30 minutes later took
>> it out of the backpack to use again. The problem was that my laptop had
>> overheated during this relatively short period of time, and became so
>> hot that I could smell burning plastic. Fortunately, I restarted the
>> computer in time to get the fan going and there wasn't any permanent
>> damage done.
>>
>> Question: what did I do wrong? Should I have NOT left my laptop in this
>> state, enclosed, for this period of time? I assumed that Vista's "sleep"
>> was the new "hibernate" and that it was safe to keep it in this state,
>> certainly for 30 minutes or longer. I've subsequently avoided using
>> sleep since, but I would really like to start using this feature again.
>>
>>
>> --
>> koch
>>