How to use hybrid sleep funtionality?

M

MJ

Hi,

I'm using Vista Business 32-bit version on my desktop computer. I've
heard that Vista introduced the new hybrid sleep - when press power-
off button in start menu, it copies all ram data to hard disk like
hibernation and keeps the data in DRAM.

However, when I press power-off button or sleep menu item, it seems
that system just goes in sleep state, not in hybrid sleep. If I cut
off the power, the system just drains everything. So, when I reboot
again, I see that entire new booting session.

Is there any option to enable hybrid sleep feature?
 
S

Squibbly

i having this problem where it wont come back on when i press the power
button to come back on, i had to switch it off at the psu and turn it back
on then, then it asked me to either keep the previous state, then that was
the only way i could switch it back on, another one of those long list of
annoyances in this OS
 
G

Guest

Doesn't pushing the "Windows" key bring it out of sleep? It did for me but I
would lose my cable connection so I don't allow my computer to sleep anymore.
Hope it's not too tired... :)
 
S

Squibbly

Ed Stoddard said:
Doesn't pushing the "Windows" key bring it out of sleep? It did for me
but I
would lose my cable connection so I don't allow my computer to sleep
anymore.
Hope it's not too tired... :)

i tried all keys omg i never tried that sorry, must go and try that then
hope it works though
 
G

Guest

Hi MJ,

Go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options

From there you can select what happens when you press the power button.

You can also select which power plan you'd like to employ, and change the
settings of that plan. If you click on Change Settings, then click on Change
advanced power settings, then expand the Sleep tab, you'll see a choice to
allow hybrid sleep.
 
S

Squibbly

Squibbly said:
i tried all keys omg i never tried that sorry, must go and try that then
hope it works though

nup doesnt do it, maybe its because its a usb keyboard
 
M

MJ

Hi MJ,

Go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options

From there you can select what happens when you press the power button.

You can also select which power plan you'd like to employ, and change the
settings of that plan. If you click on Change Settings, then click on Change
advanced power settings, then expand the Sleep tab, you'll see a choice to
allow hybrid sleep.

Thanks A_A_M_M

I've found "Power Options" dialog box which has "Advanced Settings"
Tab, and a bunch of categories inside the tab. However, when I expand
Slee treenode, I was able to watch only two settings: "Sleep After",
"Hibernate After", both of them as another child node "Setting: x
min". So.. I couldn't find "hybrid sleep" anywhere.

Could you give a more help on this?

Thanks again.
 
M

MJ

Hi MJ,

Go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options

From there you can select what happens when you press the power button.

You can also select which power plan you'd like to employ, and change the
settings of that plan. If you click on Change Settings, then click on Change
advanced power settings, then expand the Sleep tab, you'll see a choice to
allow hybrid sleep.








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Sorry, I've carefully read Windows Help and Support:

To turn on hybrid sleep

1. Click to open Power Options.
2. On the Select a power plan page, click Change plan settings under
the selected plan.
3. On the Change settings for the plan page, click Change advanced
power settings.
4. On the Advanced settings tab, expand Sleep, expand Allow hybrid
sleep, click On battery or Plugged in (or both), click the arrow, and
then click Yes.

But, I'm afraid that I can't see "Allow hybrid sleep". I think that my
desktop computer enabled "hibernation" options. So, in order to see
hybrid sleep option, I should turn off hibernation option first.

Why I'm trying to do this is... when I make my computer into
hibernation state, compter just reboot, I mean.. power turned on again
immediatly after completely turn off. This bug annoying badly..
 
M

MJ

This is my result when I typed "powercfg - A"

The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby
( S1 ) Hibernate
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Standby (S3)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Hybrid Sleep


Oh, hybrid sleep is disabled on my computer. What exactly bios setting
do I tweaked?
I'm using ASUS P5B mainborad (P965).

Thanks!!
 
M

MJ

Sorry first, for this buch of postings!

I finally enabled hybrid sleep option after turn-on S3 option in my
bios setting.
Thank you~
 
J

Jane C

Make sure that S3 STR is enabled in your BIOS. That will allow use of the
new hybrid sleep.
 
S

Squibbly

well i had this enabled in xp, but its not working on my computer the hybrid
sleep, whatever thats suppose to stand for
 

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