PSA: Hibernate makes standby/sleep mode irrelevant, and saves as much power as shutting down...

[dug777]

I hibernate anytime i'm going to be away from the comp for more than say 15mins, since it's incredibly quick to come back to life, and restart about once a month for driver changes and a general de-crankifying of my XP install that is begging for a cleain reinstall...

If i catch any of you using standby again, i'll kick you in the nuuuttttsss!

 

[DurocShark]

<--- hits standby butto<zzzt>

 

[dighn]

i use shutdown

 

[buzzsaw13]

I also use shutdown, it only takes about 30 seconds to boot into windows.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I also use shutdown, it only takes about 30 seconds to boot into windows.

That's great mate

In my case, startup takes quite a while, since my XP install is ancient & i have a boatload of crap that initialises each time.

Hibernate is almost instant however.

If you bother to read the OP, rather than being an argumentative little twerp, you'll notice i'm addressing people who use standby primarily, as it is almost totally irrelvant as far as i can see

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I also use shutdown, it only takes about 30 seconds to boot into windows.

That's great mate

In my case, startup takes quite a while, since my XP install is ancient & i have a boatload of crap that initialises each time.

Hibernate is almost instant however.

If you bother to read the OP, rather than being an argumentative little twerp, you'll notice i'm addressing people who use standby primarily, as it is almost totally irrelvant as far as i can see

shutdown is the superior choice. you are scum.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I also use shutdown, it only takes about 30 seconds to boot into windows.

That's great mate

In my case, startup takes quite a while, since my XP install is ancient & i have a boatload of crap that initialises each time.

Hibernate is almost instant however.

If you bother to read the OP, rather than being an argumentative little twerp, you'll notice i'm addressing people who use standby primarily, as it is almost totally irrelvant as far as i can see

shutdown is the superior choice. you are scum.

WRONG! And you should be eradicated with hot pokers!

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I also use shutdown, it only takes about 30 seconds to boot into windows.

That's great mate

In my case, startup takes quite a while, since my XP install is ancient & i have a boatload of crap that initialises each time.

Hibernate is almost instant however.

If you bother to read the OP, rather than being an argumentative little twerp, you'll notice i'm addressing people who use standby primarily, as it is almost totally irrelvant as far as i can see

shutdown is the superior choice. you are scum.

Noes, you are teh scum, n00b

My choice is an almost instant hibernate start, or a few mins waiting for all my crap to sort itself out & initialise...i wonder which is better for me?

Plus, and here's teh bit where you really are a n00blet, shutdown closes all your apps, whereas hibernate leaves everything as it is. So once you take into account opening all the stuff i'm working on, finding my place in pdfs, and opening up a few browser tabs, hibernate would utterly pwn shutdown on any system in that scenario.

get with it

 

[0roo0roo]

shutdown? booo, i don't like having to close all my tabs and hope my session extention saves them all withotu fail and all the other cr@p i have open. and yes hibernation works. standby is fiddly on most pcs, there are several different modes or something, depending on your setup, some ofthe less deep modes are near worthless.

 

[Powermoloch]

I use the shut down button

"hugs trees" :evil:

 

[So]

My computer crashes when I reboot from hibernate.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
I use the shut down button

"hugs trees" :evil:

*beats Powermoloch over the head with a computer in hibernate mode, that is disconnected & powered down*

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
I use the shut down button

"hugs trees" :evil:

Hibernate is, if anything, more energy efficient than shutdown, since you don't have to take the time--and CPU cycles--to reload everything when you start up again.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: dug777
I hibernate anytime i'm going to be away from the comp for more than say 15mins, since it's incredibly quick to come back to life, and restart about once a month for driver changes and a general de-crankifying of my XP install that is begging for a cleain reinstall...

If i catch any of you using standby again, i'll kick you in the nuuuttttsss!

I recently bought a new UPS which has a KWh meter on it. With the PC & LCD on the system uses 130-180W of power. In standby it still uses close to 100w. I thought it'd be much less, but, it's still using quite a bit of juice to spin the fans. This is an XP 2500CPU and NForce2 MB in an antec case w/ 400W Powersupply.

 

[sunase]

hibernate takes forever on my laptop (2gb of memory being saved to a laptop hd). suspend is superior.

 

[DAGTA]

My computer stays on 24/7

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
I use the shut down button

"hugs trees" :evil:

Hibernate is, if anything, more energy efficient than shutdown, since you don't have to take the time--and CPU cycles--to reload everything when you start up again.

It's all in personal preferences

 

[SynthDude2001]

*throws tomatoes at dug*

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
*throws tomatoes at dug*

:heart:

*makes tomato & chilli sauce, invites synth around for a BBQ and vast amounts of :beer:*

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
*throws tomatoes at dug*

:heart:

*makes tomato & chilli sauce, invites synth around for a BBQ and vast amounts of :beer:*

Works for me

 

[CrazyDe1]

Hibernate takes up 1Gb of HD space and I only have 6.5 GB for my primary partition...standby mode for me.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
Hibernate takes up 1Gb of HD space and I only have 6.5 GB for my primary partition...standby mode for me.

that is a midgety partition

 

[FoBoT]

computers should run 24/7 at 100% cpu utilization, or else you are wasting computing power

 

[BD2003]

Hibernate takes too long. Suspend-to-ram FTW.

 

[walkur]

The anoying thing about hibernate is when it locks op during startup.
You then get the choice to retry or restart normally.

The problem is it doesn't recognize my wireless keyboard :-(