Im sorry i cant really help you with your problem, but im curious as to what hibernating does to the PC. I just bought and INSPIRON 5160 and i dont understand what that option does. Whats the difference between that and standby??
Standby stores the machine state in RAM - which must be kept powered up even though the rest of the machine goes to sleep. This generates heat; and consumes battery power while the machine is in "Standby". It resumes from standby very quickly, though.
Hibernate stores the machine state to Disk - and powers off absolutely everything. Consequently the machine can remain in hibernate for a very long time (if need be); and it consumes no power while in this state. It resumes from hibernate a little more slowly.
I have found hibernate to be better at resuming if my collection of peripherals has changed (e.g. at work I plug into a bunch of things, and at home I plug into a different set).
Hope this helps - but I really hope I get an answer to my 1GB issue too.
wgordils
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January 7th, 2005 14:00
Nevillev
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January 7th, 2005 18:00
In a nutshell:
Standby stores the machine state in RAM - which must be kept powered up even though the rest of the machine goes to sleep. This generates heat; and consumes battery power while the machine is in "Standby". It resumes from standby very quickly, though.
Hibernate stores the machine state to Disk - and powers off absolutely everything. Consequently the machine can remain in hibernate for a very long time (if need be); and it consumes no power while in this state. It resumes from hibernate a little more slowly.
I have found hibernate to be better at resuming if my collection of peripherals has changed (e.g. at work I plug into a bunch of things, and at home I plug into a different set).
Hope this helps - but I really hope I get an answer to my 1GB issue too.
-Neville