Tip: Run a free scan for common Windows errors ad

re: Auto Turnoff of notebooks Friday, March 17, 2006 at 2:39 am Posted by geek9pm (1438 messages posted) Why? A book I just read ssys that would be pointless. Geek9pm On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:56 pm, Baretta wrote: >Does anyone know how to get an ACPI compliant notebook to turnoff automatically after >hibernating? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Auto Turnoff of notebooks Friday, March 17, 2006 at 11:10 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) When it hibernates, it is off. Standby is the mode that it is in a low power state but not "off".. The difference between a normal shutdown and hibernate is that hibernate saves the current state of the system (everything in RAM) to the hard drive and shuts down. When restarting from hibernate, instead of the machine booting to a clean running state, it dumps the saved memory state back into memory and resumes with all of your apps and previous running state as if you never shut it off, except that you did.... If for some reason an error is detected when resuming from hibernate, then you get a warning and Windows will clean boot, so it's best not to rely on hibernate if you have important work in progress. Always save any work before going into hibernate if you must. On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 7:56 pm, Baretta wrote: >Does anyone know how to get an ACPI compliant notebook to turnoff automatically after >hibernating? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Auto Turnoff of notebooks Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:36 pm Posted by Baretta (5 messages posted) Thanks for the reply, but I probably didnt explain properly... I know the difference between hibernate and standby, the issue I am having with my notebook is that after it hibernates, it tells you "It is now safe to turn off your computer". This is a pain as otherwise, it just restarts. If I turn it off however, it comes out out hibernation perfectly when I turn on the computer. Basically the problem is that I now have to wait until just after it has hibernated to turn it off when it used to do that automatically - Id close the lid and presto! There must be some corrupt power options file somewhere... On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 11:10 am, C K wrote: >When it hibernates, it is off. Standby is the mode that it is in a low power state >but not "off".. The difference between a normal shutdown and hibernate is that hibernate >saves the current state of the system (everything in RAM) to the hard drive and shuts >down. When restarting from hibernate, instead of the machine booting to a clean >running state, it dumps the saved memory state back into memory and resumes with >all of your apps and previous running state as if you never shut it off, except that >you did.... If for some reason an error is detected when resuming from hibernate, >then you get a warning and Windows will clean boot, so it's best not to rely on hibernate >if you have important work in progress. Always save any work before going into hibernate >if you must. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum