How to get pc to go into deep sleep mode?

[0roo0roo]

relatively new, k7s5a pro with athlon xp. when i hit sleep button, pc shuts down hd's( i hear em), monitor goes into powersaving, but fans all stay lit. i remember reading a while back there are several different levels of suspend. how do i get to a deeper level? how much is powered up really in the level i'm in now. is the cpu throttled back? or is it barely saving any power?

 

[myocardia]

Try sneeking up on it, then turning it off.

 

[0roo0roo]

funny..but then u gotta wait for boot. sleep turns on in like 2 seconds..

 

[Insane3D]

The fans need to keep running IIRC because you can't really shut the CPU down totally, so they need to stay on.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea, but whats confusing is there are different modes, from s1-3 i think. supposedly some boards can shutdown system fans, but the psu fan always stays on ofocurse. different levels have different amount of cpu activity, different amounts of heat.

 

[ToxicMussels]

Here's a nice pdf document that may be of some use for you --->Hibernation/Standby Modes

 

[gsellis]

Good link ToxicMussels. 0roo0roo - that link covers it in detail. Note that enabling Hibernate creates a file the size of your physical memory on the root of the boot drive (usually C. So, you will need that space available.

 

[0roo0roo]

thanks guess i'll try disabling some bios stuff. had no idea it would conflict.

still no detail on the different standby levels, guess its one big mystery

 

[jerome12345]

click "start"--->click "turn off computer"--->press "shift"--->click "hibernate"

 

[ToxicMussels]

Here's your detail info on the different "sleep states" S1 S2 S3 S4 ........

Here's a linky at Passmark for freeware called sleeper that will help you with these similar sleep states Sleeper

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: jerome12345
click "start"--->click "turn off computer"--->press "shift"--->click "hibernate"

grrrrrr i don't consider hibernate much of a sleep mode. my pc boots around as fast as that.

Here's your detail info on the different "sleep states" S1 S2 S3 S4 ........

Here's a linky at Passmark for freeware called sleeper that will help you with these similar sleep states Sleeper

thanks, that seems to be exactly what i needed

 

[0roo0roo]

seems the board only supports s1 and s4 oh well, good to know

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
seems the board only supports s1 and s4 oh well, good to know

Newer BIOS maybe? (but you probably have already looked.)

 

[0roo0roo]

probably not, its using honeyx's newest