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Hibenate/Sleep mode XP vs Vista
Name: ebk Date: June 19, 2007 at 08:40:00 Pacific OS: Vista Home Premium CPU/Ram: 1024 MB DDR 3.2 GHZ Product: Gateway GT5428
Comment:
Hbernate/sleep mode on a DESKTOP was a disaster on XP. Has the situation improved in this operating system?
Name: XpUser Date: June 19, 2007 at 09:33:39 Pacific
Reply:
XP hibernate (S4) and standby (S3) AND Vista sleep (S3) and hibernate (S4) are based on the OS manipulating the power-saving states of the ACPI specifications. To that end, MS is still issuing MSKB as new problems are reported to their attention.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 19, 2007 at 15:40:28 Pacific
Reply:
I did not have hibernate/sleep mode issues on my DESKTOP running XP & do not in Vista but I hardly ever invoke the commands anyway. In reality, these features primarily benefit notebooks & offer hardly any advantage to desktops.
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Response Number 3
Name: Cobra_R Date: June 20, 2007 at 20:42:06 Pacific
Reply:
My sleep mode and hibernation works fine in xp it must have been your pc.
I had occasional freezes after hibernate but the XP forum had many threads dealing with problems in these modes and it was the forums conventional wisdom that those modes only be used for notebook computers otherwise you were inviting trouble.
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Response Number 5
Name: Alex2002 Date: June 23, 2007 at 06:48:01 Pacific
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Why are people always so keen to stress that Hibernate and Standby are not any use whatsoever for Desktops? If I have to go out at short notice, and I'm in the middle of something on the PC, I think it's great that I can just goto the shut down menu, tap H, and then leave the house safe in the knowledge that it will power down the PC, and when I come back I can carry on from where I have left off. I've not ever had one problem with Hibernating on my desktop machine.
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