Sleep, hyberhate,Shut down, STAND BY..

[Emry]

A couple of days back there was quite a discussion about the above topics.

Have a question somewhat relating to this. I am using a 3 year old
"emachine T5016" with Win
XP. When I click Turn Off Computer the next window that pops up has 3
options:
Turn Off, Re Start, Stand By; the SB is sort of blanked out, and it does
not function. Nor do any of the power saving options. So I can either leave
the machine running, or turn it off.
Any suggestions/solutions?

Thanks..Emry

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

WinXP SP2 or SP3? Did you just install SP3? Does depressing the Shift key
make any difference (e.g., cause Standby to change to Hibernate)?

Note that a certain amount of memory must be available in order to go into
Standby and/or Hibernate modes.

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

double check your
cmos/bios settings.

if your motherboard
is basically a recent
model,

then you may simply need
to enable the "acpi" mode so
that windows can provide
additional power options,

like "hibernation mode".

there are also a couple
of things that you can
do via the desktop.

for example click on
start>run>cmd

the enter: powercfg /?

it will provide you with
some interesting on
the subject.
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[Unknown]

This appears to be a very confusing statement. "A certain amount of memory
must be available to go into Standby or
Hibernate modes"----If you are capable to operate XP, NO additional memory
is required to go into standby.
However, you must have ample disk space to go into hibernate since the
entire memory is written to the disc.

 

[Unknown]

Go back and check the power option settings in control panel.

 

[Twayne]

This appears to be a very confusing statement. "A certain amount of
memory must be available to go into Standby or
Hibernate modes"----If you are capable to operate XP, NO additional
memory is required to go into standby.
However, you must have ample disk space to go into hibernate since the
entire memory is written to the disc.

The memory requirements for standby are pretty modest considering it
only needs information to pull things back into operation and probably a
list of the addresses where things reside.

Hibernation also doesn't require a lot of memory by today's standards
when you consider drives are 80 Gig minimum anymore and usually >> 100
Gig. So the standard 512 Meg or even a Gig is a pretty small part of
the overall memory. You'd be squeezing an already pretty full drive to
have hibernate create much of a problem, especially when you consider
the space used by other things such as Restore Points, pagefile, etc.
etc.. Personally I much prefer Hibernate because it lets you turn off
power to the machine yet bypasses a lot of the boot time it takes to do
a cold boot.

Just my 2 ¢,

Twayne`