Hibernate or Shut Down? - Page 2

Usually just shut down. I used to hibernate a lot, but if I have stuff plugged in (ie: external keyboard and mouse), and then I hibernate, and then I unplug the stuff before coming out of hibernation, the notebook doesn't wake up the first time I try to. It just beeps. Then I have to hold down the power button, then it "shuts off" and then I can bring it out of hibernation just like normal (everything will still be there). Besides that issue, no other problems with hibernation (ie: if I boot up when I'm away from my desk, don't plug anything in except maybe a thumb drive or something, and then I use hibernation, I never have any problems).

So I DO use hibernation when I'm away from home, but when I'm there, I'm either using the notebook a lot, or it's off. It's when I'm traveling that hibernation really helps me a lot (who wants to sit at the library and wait for their computer to shut down fully, when everybody is waiting?).



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-Ransom

My 600m has problems getting out of sleep, so I just shutdown.

Now sleep and hibernate are two different things, i have never had a computer work correctly after it has gone into "sleep" mode.

To tell the truth, I never used to Hibernate... I always have the feeling my slow 4200 rpm HD doesn't bear heavy work, including Hibernation, but I guess I might be wrong regarding this specific feature..

Do you think there would be any problem hibernating on 4200 rpm 60 GB hard disks?? Won't it slow down the whole system???

Cya

The "Work" of Hibernation will do your HD no harm, the more that is 'up', the slower your system will run.

I have Disabled Hibernate (very little time saved with it) and use "sleep" or StandBy when in a hurry to shutdown, and usually remember to do a 'proper' shutdown later.

I go from an un-docked StandBy to a Docked Resume, but still need a complete shutdown to enter my "docked" profile (with WiFi disabled, for one thing).

Hibernate most of the time, but I shut down my laptop twice a week

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Edit: Getting back on topic, I never hibernate. Hibernating is for bears.



M.

Funny story, when I first got my Chembook I installed Win XP, all my usual programs, games, customized everything the way I liked it, installed all needed updates and then went ahead and made a drive image for backup as I usually do.
B4 I make drive images, I always shrink down the paging file to 512mb and turn off hibernation because that also hogs up almost a gig or so by itself.

What I didn't know was that if you had the laptop set to go into hibernation when the laptop lid is closed and you turn off hibernation support, that setting instead of reverting to "Do Nothing" instead changes to "Go into sleep mode".

I go ahead and ghost my drive and then ofcourse forget to turn hibernation back on and later that night I closed down the lid b4 hitting the sack. Next day I open up the laptop, press the power button and almost instantaneously the screen jumps back to life.

I'm like DAMN! THATS A SMOKIN LITTLE LAPPY I GOT HERE!!!

and this one time at band camp, i put an ultraportable up my tuba so i could watch dvd's during practice.....

no way..

haha im just messing with yah!

I never hibernate, and I almost never shut down.

My PC is always either turned on, or in standby mode. Hibernate seems like a waste to me; it requires (on my notebook) 1GB of hard drive space for the data, and takes almost as long to restore from hibernation as a full start up.

On the other hand, with standby, it comes on in seconds, and can stay without power for days. My notebook comes with my to school, so I'd say it spends roughly 2/3 of it's overall time turned on, and 1/3 in standby.

I have been using hibernate as I have an office at two different locations that I am at daily. I usually close any apps that I know use more than a little memory, on a given day I may close all apps and not have any running between "resumes". I may try the standby mode to see if there is a difference.


It is my understanding that hibernate dumps memory/OS state to the HD before shutting down requiring no power.

For standby hardware devices are simply powered off...BUT...power is still required for the memory to retain the state it was previously in. So I would assume this would put a drain on the battery if "left without power for days". I don't know if this would cause any more wear on the battery or not. I personally am not traveling far between offices so I'll give it try and see if there are any advantages. I have an HP DTR so the battery does not last long but I guess if the only thing that is being powerd is the memory it shouldn't be an issue other than slowly draining the battery?

studio54's drunk, and his lappy has the hiccups?

I used to hibernate all the time but I've switched to Stand By.
Hibernate mode needs more disk space and is slower to wake.
But Stand By mode seems to use up the battery faster, maybe because everything is saved to RAM so it needs more juice?
I dunno.

I just know I like to be able to lift the screen and swipe my finger across the pad & it's on.

What's the difference?

But I only see Standby, Off, and Restart. Where's the Hibernate?

You need to go into Settings/Control Panel/Power Options.
You need to turn on the feature because it dedicates a chunk of disk space for it.

i use Stand By instead of hibernate..

@YinYang: It's very simple. When in sleep, the computer goes to a state that it won't use too much power (very little), but the data is still there (volatile). So, if you turn the computer off (or take the battery out, for example), the data is lost.

When hibernating, the OS will save the contents of the RAM memory to the disk, so you can turn off it, take out the battery whatever, and when you turn on again, the OS will load these contents to the memory again, and you can restart your work exactly from where you finished. Hibernate doesn't consume any power, since the computer is actually turned off, what doesn't happen with sleep mode.

To enable hibernation, you need to activate it as GOLD-BEATER said, but to use it, you go to power off and that blue window with "sleep - reboot - turn off" will appear. If you press shift, you will see that the sleep option will change to hibernate...

edit: what makes resuming hibernation faster than regular boot (the more start up process and boot time routines you have, bigger this difference will be) is because it just makes kind of a 1:1 copy (not 100% sure, but I believe this is more or less how it works) of the hibernate section on the hard disk, instead of processing all the routines and programs to bring the desktop OS from scratch to a "ready to work" mode.