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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:08 pm
by elicoten
As far as I know, hibernation does not use any power. The RAM is dumped onto the hard drive, and then the system powered down fully. I don't know where you get the information that the system still requires power.
The advantage of hibernation is that you don't have to close any open programs or lose any data in programs - you can just leave everything open and come back to it when you want. Useful if you are in the middle of a large process that you can't close down, but you need to switch off your computer. An example would be a huge backup job. CLosing the program would cancel the backup, but if you needed to shut down your computer you could proably hiberate and continue the backup afterwards.
Eli
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:12 pm
by Sonic
lol i didnt know thats weird
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:10 am
by jasondsouza
is it possible on win 98
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:40 pm
by darko
hibernate and standby are mainly functions used for laptops in my opinion
Standby: when you chose standby, the PC will cut off lots of it's power supply but it will keep memory of the last thing you were doing in the RAM cache, and ram needs some power to keep memory of the data, so on a laptop this will let the battery die fast
Hibernate: it's basiclly the same as StandBy but instead of storing the data on Ram it will be stored on the harddisk witch does not need any power, so you'll be saving the power of the battery, and on lauch the system will automaticly send the data from the HD to the Ram and you'll have in front oof you the last thing you were doing
to use hibernation Under Windows 98, Me, or 2000 do the following
**** Start and Shut Down,
Point the standby button and maintain the shift key pushed,
A new hibernation button appears: **** it while still holding the shift key: voila your PC will hibernate.
Regards
Darko
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:18 am
by jasondsouza
will this work for win 98
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:45 am
by Mizo
Nice nice i dont know it before realy great thx
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:13 pm
by ddarude
Thanks!
this trick will be useful for laptop users. Hibernate mode can save battery consumption quite a lot and you don't need wait a long time to use your laptop again if you put in hibernate mode.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:08 pm
by insaneisenough
I don't use hibernate at all really I just shut down my pc when its not in use.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:38 am
by jeremy90
cool, you can change stand by text
i will have to try that some time
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:43 pm
by kix
lol, thats suprising, i dont use stand by by any chance anyway, lol, so no way i knew that
