To Hibernate or not

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I am running XP SP3 on a Dell 3000 system. I understand that hibernation
mode will essentially shut down my system, to conserve electricity, while
saving memory, so that it can return to its previous state without rebooting.
My question is: Are there any downsides to hibernation that I should be
considering?
 
Power saving options like Standby and Hibernation were designed for
laptops, to conserve battery power. They don't always work well, or at
all, on desktop hardware.
 
I am running XP SP3 on a Dell 3000 system. I understand that hibernation
mode will essentially shut down my system, to conserve electricity, while
saving memory, so that it can return to its previous state without rebooting.
My question is: Are there any downsides to hibernation that I should be
considering?
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Hibernate works for me on a Dell 9100.
 
John said:
I am running XP SP3 on a Dell 3000 system. I understand that hibernation
mode will essentially shut down my system, to conserve electricity, while
saving memory, so that it can return to its previous state without
rebooting.
My question is: Are there any downsides to hibernation that I should be
considering?
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The only one I've encountered is occasional corruption in the file that
hibernation creates (hiberfil.sys), resulting in problems starting up. When
it does come up, the previous "state" is lost - so any unsaved changes to
data documents would more than likely be lost, too. But then, I would never
trust an unsaved document to survive hibernation anyway, but just use it as
a tool to save starting-up time and electricity.
 
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