Sleep or Hibernate mode for HTPC ???

[sportage]

I don?t really get the difference between the two modes, or which shutdown mode will allow a htpc tuner to continue to record scheduled recordings?
On my system, sleep blanks the screen but the fans keep running.
On hibernate, the pc goes dead. Both modes wake the pc after a mouse hit or key hit.
On my MB settings, I only have the option of "away mode" on or off. Not sure if that has anything to do with what the OS does as to sleep or hibernate.

I?ve read about S3 and S4 modes but this MB does not have those settings.
Just the away mode, whatever that is. I have away mode disabled.

 

[Tiamat]

depends on your OS. I'm running server 2008 and sleep shuts down the system except bleeding a little power to the ram so that startup is less than 1 second. Much better than hibernation in terms of boot time.

 

[sivart]

My Vista Home Premium machine won't stay asleep...it wakes up almost every night. Not checking for updates for Windows, media center, anti-virus (only every 10 days)....so I don't know what is wrong. With my XP machine, Hibernate always crashes my PC when it come back out of hibernate.

So I just use the power switch on all my machines now.

 

[vshah]

S3 = sleep, meaning information is kept in ram for quick startup to where you left off.

S4 = hibernation, meaning all current data is written to hard drive, takes longer to resume but unaffected by a power outage etc.

not sure which, if either, would allow your tuner to continue recording. i have a feeling you would have to keep the computer on and disable any sleep/hibernation, since once it goes into sleep the power is no longer under OS control, but under BIOS control.

 

[WannaFly]

Originally posted by: sivart
My Vista Home Premium machine won't stay asleep...it wakes up almost every night. Not checking for updates for Windows, media center, anti-virus (only every 10 days)....so I don't know what is wrong. With my XP machine, Hibernate always crashes my PC when it come back out of hibernate.

So I just use the power switch on all my machines now.

My laptop does this, can't figure out why. Only when A/C powered though.


OP: There's a program for VMC that has some good sleep/hibernation settings that will wake it up, etc. I cant remember the name right now but shouldn't be hard to find.