Sleep/Hibernate. Long term Safety

Semper Fi · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:43

I usually use hibernate if i want to save anything although most the time i just turn it off

darkcooleo · 24 Oct 2009 at 11:20

I've got a acer timeline and i've noticed that i have been hibernating at night and in the morning i've lost 9% of my battery, does hibernate take a small draw of power? some sites say yes, some say no ( quick google search)

VaderDSL · 24 Oct 2009 at 11:28

If I sleep my machine it never turns back on, needs a reset to get back into Windows

Engram · 24 Oct 2009 at 11:48

I use "Hybrid Sleep". (On my desktop). Brilliant idea.

http://blogs.msdn.com/justsean/archive/2006/12/08/vista-notes-episode-2-sleep-vs-hybrid-sleep.aspx

Clarkey · 24 Oct 2009 at 12:29

VaderDSL said:
If I sleep my machine it never turns back on, needs a reset to get back into Windows

Mine used to, had to change some sleep setting in the bios and all was good from then on. S3 sleep is the best, exactly like hibernate used to be only it loads back up in about 3 seconds flat.
It's also worth noting that in Vista (and I assume 7) it also writes the data to disk when you sleep, if you were to disconnect the power or have a power cut it will still resume your session as if it had been hibernated.

edit - just read that link, seems that behaviour is Hybrid Sleep. Also since I enabled the S3 sleep BIOS setting, I no longer have the Hibernate option in the menu.

PlumpMonkey · 24 Oct 2009 at 12:36

I also had a problem with Sleep in Vista. When it came back out of sleep the HDDs seemed all messed up and wouldnt work properly. I assumed it was something to do with the fact I have Raid 1 on the disks.

I never did find a fix for it so always shut down

adbp1 · 24 Oct 2009 at 13:08

i cant get mine to do sleep or hibinate, it powers down then straight back up again. gone through all the settings shown in posts/links.
im on win7 now, it was brilliant on vista.