Hibernation uses the least amount of power and returns the user to whatever you were doing, but requires less than half the time a cold boot would take. Sleep (Used to be called Standby) instantly brings back the screen and applications that were running but uses more of your battery. Both turn off and parks your hard drive. If I'm flying I usually put mine to "Sleep", that way if the TSA want to see if it works I just have to open the lid.
Fn + F1 is supposed to put it to sleep, but I have a better way, go to control panel, power options, Advance, and just tell it when you shut your lid to go to sleep, and if you push the power button to hibernate, if your not going to be using the PC for more than a few days with no AC manually tell it to shut down from the start menu. I find this works best for me.
Thanks for the information. However when I hit the Fn with F1 it seems to go into hibernate mode. I need to push the start button to get the computer to restart and then it goes back to where it was previously. I thought the sleep mode with resume simply by touching the keyboard or mouse. I am only check it with the ac connected.
I assume hibernate means you need to use the power button while sleep would not require its use.
londawg
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April 29th, 2008 03:00
Hibernation uses the least amount of power and returns the user to whatever you were doing, but requires less than half the time a cold boot would take. Sleep (Used to be called Standby) instantly brings back the screen and applications that were running but uses more of your battery. Both turn off and parks your hard drive. If I'm flying I usually put mine to "Sleep", that way if the TSA want to see if it works I just have to open the lid.
Fn + F1 is supposed to put it to sleep, but I have a better way, go to control panel, power options, Advance, and just tell it when you shut your lid to go to sleep, and if you push the power button to hibernate, if your not going to be using the PC for more than a few days with no AC manually tell it to shut down from the start menu. I find this works best for me.
Lon
Paul_Wein
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April 29th, 2008 23:00
Thanks for the information. However when I hit the Fn with F1 it seems to go into hibernate mode. I need to push the start button to get the computer to restart and then it goes back to where it was previously. I thought the sleep mode with resume simply by touching the keyboard or mouse. I am only check it with the ac connected.
I assume hibernate means you need to use the power button while sleep would not require its use.
londawg
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April 30th, 2008 03:00
Correct, which can be customized in power options.