Sherri,

What you are seeing is the difference between Standby and Hibernation.

Standby is just a Low Power Mode; Monitor off, HDD stopped, but the Motherboard is 
still powered-up, saving the Current State, (what you have running), in RAM Memory. 
Takes only a keystroke to reactivate the System.

Hibernation is a different Animal. Before going into Hibernation, the Computer saves 
the Current State to the Hibernation File on the Hard Disk, then totally shuts down 
the Computer.





On a Desktop Computer, once the Power Supply is shut down, you have to hit the Power 
Switch to get the Computer Running again.

Hibernation is, typically, not reccommended for Desktops. It is really intended for 
Laptops to save battery power.

Hope this helps.

BW





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On Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 11:07 pm, SHERRI wrote:

>Have XP SP2 with an IBM keyboard & wireless mouse.  The spacebar on the keyboard 

>will wake the computer from standby mode but not from hibernation.  Must use the 

>power button from hibernation.  There are no power management settings available 

>for the keyboard to wake the computer but I don’t see the difference because the 

>keyboard does wake the computer from standby, just not from hibernation.  Any suggestions 

>would be greatly appreciated. 

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