Who uses hybird sleep in vista??

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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I am giving it a go with my new system, cos when using hybird sleep, Its like the system is totally shut down cos no fans are spinning or anything it just keeps the memory active. Then when I press the power button on my system it take like 3secs or so for windows to pop up again, plus it doesnt go through the bios checking and stuff at the beginning of the boot up

I checked to see if hybird sleep used any more power then with the normal shut down, and theres no diff at all, or thats what my plug-in power monitor meter says anyway. Also I have the abit ip35 pro motherboard with the little display on the board and when it displays "99" its fully shut down and it displays "99" when its in hybird sleep mode.
 
BEn_2600+ said:
sounds good, does it come out of sleep every time flawlessly?
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My experience of it with my PC is sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't it's a right pain to try and get it to boot again, usually resulting in having to unplug at the wall.
 
With my system it seems to work flawlessly, but I've only just started using hybird sleep, and no you cant run anything while in this state.
 
I've used S3 Sleep/Hybrid Sleep/Deep sleep for a long time now, both with XP64bit, and Vista64. Have to admit, I've not run into any problems at all. Though I do have an intel ViiV compatible motherboard, which were specifically designed to support Hybrid sleep.

Its very good, the computer uses just 4 watts of power in this mode, has no fans running, and on powerup, its back up and running literally within seconds. The intel motherboard doesnt even bother to run a full POST. Its just BOOM back into windows.
 
Corasik said:
Its very good, the computer uses just 4 watts of power in this mode, has no fans running, and on powerup, its back up and running literally within seconds. The intel motherboard doesnt even bother to run a full POST. Its just BOOM back into windows.
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Its the same with my system too. But if you dont use the normal shutdown ever, wont the superfetch get messed up , cos dosent superfetch updates the most used programs at windows bootup?
 
I could be wrong, but I would imagine that Superfetch updates whats actually stored in memory every time you load a new program. I mean, if I run Prime95, and allow 100% of memory to be used, once I finish primeing, superfetch soon fills up the memory again.

I think it makes all its updates in real time. Of course it saves those stats so on the next bootup it knows which programs to load etc.

Anyway, it certainly never caused any issued when I use S3 sleep
 
I use it all the time, it's great when the alternative is the marvellous random length post I seem to have with the Badaxe2. No problems with pulling the power while it's sleeping either, in that case it just posts and resumes as if it was coming out of hibernation (which I suppose is exactly what's happening).

Only issue I've had is that Newsleecher (a beta version I might add) occasionally crashes if it's been open when the PC goes to sleep.
 
I used to use it & it was great, came on again so quick. Recently I've started getting BSOD's on restarting from it & as far as I'm aware I haven't changed anything which is a pity cus I'd still like to use it.
 
I ran into a problem with putting it into sleep mode, when i pushed the power button to turn it on, the fans and everything would spin up, then stop and it would turn off. 3 secs later it would do the same again and it would continue to loop doin this until i switched off the PSU and took out the cord.

Only used the feature by accident as thought it was the shut down button in the start menu, lol.
 
Hybrid sleep offers the same functionality of S3 with the addition of the core feature of hibernate (S4) which is suspend to disk.

With hybrid mode enabled, when a PC goes to sleep it spools the content of RAM to disk and then suspends the system as in S3.

The advantage of this is if your PC looses power when in sleep, no data is lost. As when it is powered back on it will realise that was in hybrid sleep when the power was cut and will resume from disk (as with suspend to disk).

I have used this on numerous systems and have found that there a quite a few drivers that are poorly developed for Vista and cause the system to go into blue screen with this feature enabled. However there are many companies who are now addressing this.
 
superplay said:
I have used this on numerous systems and have found that there a quite a few drivers that are poorly developed for Vista and cause the system to go into blue screen with this feature enabled. However there are many companies who are now addressing this.
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Yep, will be a great feature once the bugs are ironed out. I would use it all the time. At the min thought my PC resumes fine but then when I try to shut down or suspend again it blue screens strangely.
 
Ive run into a problem with the hybird mode, the temp is reporting -127c so when the cpu is being stressed out the cpu fan dont speed up. So its back to the normal shutdown, dam..:mad:
 
I don't think I can do anything like that. My PC doesn't want to wake up again :/. I don't even have the hibernation option in my start menu which is rather odd..
 
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