if i click the standby button, it does it. but if i leave it
running, its a vaio notebook, it shuts off completely. it's very
annoying, does anyone know why this might be happening?
"MadSweeney" said in news:[email protected]:if i click the standby button, it does it. but if i leave it
running, its a vaio notebook, it shuts off completely. it's very
annoying, does anyone know why this might be happening?
Hibernate creates a file that is a copy of the memory. When booting
up from hibernate, this file is read to restore the contents of
memory so the system is in the state [memory] state as when it was
put into hibernate. Hibernate WILL shutdown your system. That's why
it is called hibernate mode (instead of standby mode). If you
defined the power options in Windows to hibernate when the power or
standby button is pressed then hibernate is what it will do, and
hibernating means saving the memory to a file and powering down.
Sounds like you want to disable hibernate mode and just use standby
mode (provided it is configured to power down the drives so they
aren't spinning when you're toting the laptop around).
Description of the Different Advanced Power Management States
"Hibernation saves the complete state of the computer and turns off
the power."
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308535
You have your laptop configured to go into hibernate mode. You put it
into hibernate mode. The laptop powers off. So what's the problem?
It's doing exactly what you told it to do.
If instead the problem you are having is that you are trying to use
hibernate but it won't come back in the same state then maybe you
don't have enough free space on your disk to save the hibernate file
on it.
*Vanguard* said:"*Vanguard*" said in news:[email protected]:"MadSweeney" said in news:[email protected]:if i click the standby button, it does it. but if i leave it
running, its a vaio notebook, it shuts off completely. it's very
annoying, does anyone know why this might be happening?
Hibernate creates a file that is a copy of the memory. When booting
up from hibernate, this file is read to restore the contents of
memory so the system is in the state [memory] state as when it was
put into hibernate. Hibernate WILL shutdown your system. That's why
it is called hibernate mode (instead of standby mode). If you
defined the power options in Windows to hibernate when the power or
standby button is pressed then hibernate is what it will do, and
hibernating means saving the memory to a file and powering down.
Sounds like you want to disable hibernate mode and just use standby
mode (provided it is configured to power down the drives so they
aren't spinning when you're toting the laptop around).
Description of the Different Advanced Power Management States
"Hibernation saves the complete state of the computer and turns off
the power."
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308535
You have your laptop configured to go into hibernate mode. You put it
into hibernate mode. The laptop powers off. So what's the problem?
It's doing exactly what you told it to do.
If instead the problem you are having is that you are trying to use
hibernate but it won't come back in the same state then maybe you
don't have enough free space on your disk to save the hibernate file
on it.
Ah, after rereading your post, I see the difference. You pushing the
Standby button puts the laptop into standby mode and that's what you
want. You leaving the computer running but letting it be idle for a
long time results in it going into hibernate mode. I'm not sure why you
wouldn't want the laptop to go into hibernate mode since that is the
lowest power consumption (i.e., zero power). If you left your laptop
sitting around for a long time in standby mode, and without any power
connected to it, then its batteries will still drain and you'll be left
with a completely dead laptop until you get back to the power adapter or
dock for it.
Check your power options. If you don't want the computer to ever go
into hibernate mode, then disable hibernate mode. I'm not sure this can
be done for a laptop. If it cannot be disabled then see if you can
alter the time when the laptop goes into hibernate mode. When hibernate
mode is enabled, you should see 2 selections under the Power Schemes
tab: one for how long to wait while idle before going into Standby mode,
and another for how long to wait when idel before going into Hibernate
mode. Standby mode's wait time should be shorter than Hibernate's wait
time. You might be able to set the Hibernate wait time to Never but
remember that your batteries will still get drained while in Standby
mode.
i will read this link youe sent and see how it applies, but it seems
slightly different than you're saying. honestly i'm not sure what the
difference between stand by and hibernate, but here's a different way
of saying my problem.
when i leave my computer on, without going into the start menu and
clicking stand by, it will eventually shut OFF. not hibernating, but
off off. so instead of restoring it to a previous state, it reboots
the whole deal. i have it connected to AC when this happens,so no
battery problems.
i'll do more research with what you've given me. thanks
*Vanguard* said:"*Vanguard*" said in news:[email protected]:"MadSweeney" said in if i click the standby button, it does it. but if i leave it
running, its a vaio notebook, it shuts off completely. it's very
annoying, does anyone know why this might be happening?
Hibernate creates a file that is a copy of the memory. When booting
up from hibernate, this file is read to restore the contents of
memory so the system is in the state [memory] state as when it was
put into hibernate. Hibernate WILL shutdown your system. That's
why it is called hibernate mode (instead of standby mode). If you
defined the power options in Windows to hibernate when the power or
standby button is pressed then hibernate is what it will do, and
hibernating means saving the memory to a file and powering down.
Sounds like you want to disable hibernate mode and just use standby
mode (provided it is configured to power down the drives so they
aren't spinning when you're toting the laptop around).
Description of the Different Advanced Power Management States
"Hibernation saves the complete state of the computer and turns off
the power."
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308535
You have your laptop configured to go into hibernate mode. You put
it into hibernate mode. The laptop powers off. So what's the
problem? It's doing exactly what you told it to do.
If instead the problem you are having is that you are trying to use
hibernate but it won't come back in the same state then maybe you
don't have enough free space on your disk to save the hibernate file
on it.
Ah, after rereading your post, I see the difference. You pushing the
Standby button puts the laptop into standby mode and that's what you
want. You leaving the computer running but letting it be idle for a
long time results in it going into hibernate mode. I'm not sure why
you wouldn't want the laptop to go into hibernate mode since that is
the lowest power consumption (i.e., zero power). If you left your
laptop sitting around for a long time in standby mode, and without
any power connected to it, then its batteries will still drain and
you'll be left with a completely dead laptop until you get back to
the power adapter or dock for it.
Check your power options. If you don't want the computer to ever go
into hibernate mode, then disable hibernate mode. I'm not sure this
can be done for a laptop. If it cannot be disabled then see if you
can alter the time when the laptop goes into hibernate mode. When
hibernate mode is enabled, you should see 2 selections under the
Power Schemes tab: one for how long to wait while idle before going
into Standby mode, and another for how long to wait when idel before
going into Hibernate mode. Standby mode's wait time should be
shorter than Hibernate's wait time. You might be able to set the
Hibernate wait time to Never but remember that your batteries will
still get drained while in Standby mode.
*Vanguard* said:"MadSweeney" said in news:[email protected]:i will read this link youe sent and see how it applies, but it seems
slightly different than you're saying. honestly i'm not sure what the
difference between stand by and hibernate, but here's a different way
of saying my problem.
when i leave my computer on, without going into the start menu and
clicking stand by, it will eventually shut OFF. not hibernating, but
off off. so instead of restoring it to a previous state, it reboots
the whole deal. i have it connected to AC when this happens,so no
battery problems.
i'll do more research with what you've given me. thanks
*Vanguard* said:"*Vanguard*" said in "MadSweeney" said in if i click the standby button, it does it. but if i leave it
running, its a vaio notebook, it shuts off completely. it's very
annoying, does anyone know why this might be happening?
Hibernate creates a file that is a copy of the memory. When booting
up from hibernate, this file is read to restore the contents of
memory so the system is in the state [memory] state as when it was
put into hibernate. Hibernate WILL shutdown your system. That's
why it is called hibernate mode (instead of standby mode). If you
defined the power options in Windows to hibernate when the power or
standby button is pressed then hibernate is what it will do, and
hibernating means saving the memory to a file and powering down.
Sounds like you want to disable hibernate mode and just use standby
mode (provided it is configured to power down the drives so they
aren't spinning when you're toting the laptop around).
Description of the Different Advanced Power Management States
"Hibernation saves the complete state of the computer and turns off
the power."
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308535
You have your laptop configured to go into hibernate mode. You put
it into hibernate mode. The laptop powers off. So what's the
problem? It's doing exactly what you told it to do.
If instead the problem you are having is that you are trying to use
hibernate but it won't come back in the same state then maybe you
don't have enough free space on your disk to save the hibernate file
on it.
Ah, after rereading your post, I see the difference. You pushing the
Standby button puts the laptop into standby mode and that's what you
want. You leaving the computer running but letting it be idle for a
long time results in it going into hibernate mode. I'm not sure why
you wouldn't want the laptop to go into hibernate mode since that is
the lowest power consumption (i.e., zero power). If you left your
laptop sitting around for a long time in standby mode, and without
any power connected to it, then its batteries will still drain and
you'll be left with a completely dead laptop until you get back to
the power adapter or dock for it.
Check your power options. If you don't want the computer to ever go
into hibernate mode, then disable hibernate mode. I'm not sure this
can be done for a laptop. If it cannot be disabled then see if you
can alter the time when the laptop goes into hibernate mode. When
hibernate mode is enabled, you should see 2 selections under the
Power Schemes tab: one for how long to wait while idle before going
into Standby mode, and another for how long to wait when idel before
going into Hibernate mode. Standby mode's wait time should be
shorter than Hibernate's wait time. You might be able to set the
Hibernate wait time to Never but remember that your batteries will
still get drained while in Standby mode.
Standby = Computer remains powered up but certain components will
shutoff, like the hard drives and video, while others simply reduce
their power consumption, like the CPU reducing it cycle duty (because it
has to remain alive enough to know when you want to trigger it out of
Standby mode and come back full on).
Hibernate mode = Save a copy of the current contents of memory into a
file on the hard drive and power down. This completely shuts off the
computer. When you next reboot, the file is read to restore the memory
image which is faster than having to read the disk to reload the OS and
all the running applications.
Hibernate mode WILL shutdown the computer (i.e., power it off). That's
what is supposed to do to reduce power consumption to near zero.