Hibernate vs stand by vs shut down

[This Side Up]

Quick Q:

For those who said sleep mode - do you use sleep mode if you are not going to use the pc for long periods (i.e. 12+hrs)??

 

[TheVoice]

Quick Q:

For those who said sleep mode - do you use sleep mode if you are not going to use the pc for long periods (i.e. 12+hrs)??

Yep. If I was going away for a few days or something like that, I'd probably shut it down completely and unplug it, but if it's just a day sleep is fine.

 

[Phil2008]

Hibernate uses the same amount of power as off and can wake up even after a power loss because everything is saved to disk. But it takes a bit longer to wake up than sleep.

If you use hybrid sleep like I do, it saves the mem to the hdd aswell, so if you have a powe failure it pulls the info from the hdd

The power usage doesnt seem to be any diff with standby or shutdown, going by my plugin power meter.

The best think about using standby is, its like turning on and off a tv, and when I turn my pc on,, its ready to use within 2-3sec, without vista needing todo all that superfeching rubbish. So for me, standby is my new turn off, and I would hate having to go back to the old shutdown again.

Plus my printer is networked to my 2nd pc but connected to my main pc, so if someone wants to print out from my second pc and the main pc is turned off, all they need todo is turn on the printer and my main pc fires up. So no need to touch my main pc at all, cool hey

 

[Phil2008]

Quick Q:

For those who said sleep mode - do you use sleep mode if you are not going to use the pc for long periods (i.e. 12+hrs)??

yes cos a member of my family might need to use the printer on the 2nd pc or laptop, so like I said in my prev post you just turn on the printer and my main pc fires up, but they just have to remember to turn off the pc, I mean put it back into standby

 

[uv]

on every laptop, I always setup hibernate, the battery drain from S3 is too high to use on an laptop

I use S3 sleep on both laptop and desktop.. half a day of sleep will use 2% battery on my lappy

It's so handy getting in from work and just tapping my keyboard to be instantly good to go.. tho WakeOnLan won't wake my desktop when it's asleep :/

 

[Phil2008]

tho WakeOnLan won't wake my desktop when it's asleep :/

Make sure wakeup is enabled in bios and on the network adaptor in device man

 

[linktoinsanity]

S3 on my PC, though I just shut down my laptop, unless it's going to be a short time later, in which case S3 is fine.

 

[D D Danneh]

I shut it down. The extra 30 seconds or so to start it up again means nothing to me.

 

[This Side Up]

Hmmm.

I have recently updated my Nvidia graphics drivers before making this thread, and unbeknown to me, SLI wasn't enabled.

Since enabling SLI, windows cannot resume from either sleep or hibernate without BSODing or giving me an infinate loop problem.

I have searched the web, downloaded different drivers (and used driver cleaner etc), downloaded various fixes. All to no avail.

As far as I can see, my system cannot sleep/hibernate with SLI enabled.

What a ballache. Any advice?