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The difference between Sleep and Power Options
The difference between Sleep and Power Options
If I don't do anything at the end of a session witn XP SP3, and in a while, the power option settings I have cause the monitor to black out, and cause the harddrives to stop spinning, is that the same effect that putting the computer to Sleep has? The only other possibility I can think of is the CPU It's a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, I don't think that is dual core, and I don't know if sleeping lowers the amount of current it uses, in a way that just leaving it doesn't. Thanks. |
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The difference between Sleep and Power Options
micky wrote:
The difference between Sleep and Power Options If I don't do anything at the end of a session witn XP SP3, and in a while, the power option settings I have cause the monitor to black out, and cause the harddrives to stop spinning, is that the same effect that putting the computer to Sleep has? The only other possibility I can think of is the CPU It's a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, I don't think that is dual core, and I don't know if sleeping lowers the amount of current it uses, in a way that just leaving it doesn't. Thanks. Why not get a Kill-a-Watt meter and measure it ? That's the quickest way to figure it out, and we can't then argue with the results. Plus, you end up with a meter you can use to identify other power hogs, such as all those wall adapters you use. This gadget can be used to monitor all sorts of stuff. This one is about $20. It uses the same technology as a digital power meter on the side of a house. And should do a better job than my $100 multimeter (which cannot handle the non-sine waveform of an ATX PSU). If it wasn't for the existence of household digital power metering technology, designs like this would not exist, or you'd pay a couple hundred for them. http://www.amazon.com/P3-Internation...ds=kill+a+watt ******* And, a system is really asleep, if you no longer hear fans spinning. Any power state that truly saves power, the fans are off. That's how you know your adjustment efforts are paying off. S3 Suspend to RAM and S4 Hibernate, are "fans off". S1 Standby, the fans are still running. S1 isn't very good. It is barely better than the computer running and sitting idle in the desktop. ******* There is a thread here on using the "dumppo.exe" utility. This is good for cases where you're having trouble getting into S3. Typically, a user mis-adjusts the BIOS standby setting, and then the OS needs to be "repaired" with an override later, after the BIOS setting is corrected. http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.p...31#post1825058 Paul |
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