acpi and suspend to ram???

[tkim]

what are these things? i heard someone mention them in another thread.....they said it worked well in win xp.....

i have 2k and am thinking about doing an upgrade....will these features help me??

 

[StanFL]

Suspend To Ram will work in Win2K also if the sun and moon are in the proper alignment STR is standby with no noise, ie it shuts off everything in your computer except leaves a trickle of +5 voltage to the memory to retain the data for all open programs. Once you flick your mouse to wake it up your puter is back where you left it, programs included, in about 10 seconds.

ACPI, in a nutshell, handles things like IRQ sharing and power management. Your Win2K box may already be in ACPI mode, to find out, go to device manager and click the + by computer to see what computer type it is. Hopefully it's already ACPI. At least for Win2K and depending on your motherboard, it may be necessary to clean install the o/s with a properly configured bios to get STR working properly. ALL hardware and ALL device drivers have to support STR for it to work properly.

Having said all that, in my experience XP probably does a little better job with power management than 2K.

 

[RSI]

WinXP is just more bloated. If you want to see the difference, switch your hardware a little. But a slower video card in. A video card that should still be able to handle any windows tasks. You'll see it lag in WinXP where it wouldn't lag in Win2K, or not as much. Everything is just generally more bloated, larger, slower. It does however boot up faster. But if you're leaving it on all the time, what does an extra 10 seconds on your boot time matter?

I'll stick to 2K for now thank you! Power management/ACPI features work just fine.

-RSI