Sleep/Hibernate. Long term Safety

lettuce · 10 Oct 2009 at 14:06

Is it completely fine rather than turn the PC off to set it to Sleep/Hibernate??

What effect if i did this all the time would it have on, the components in the PC and actual power usage?? Does setting the PC to Sleep/Hibernate use anymore power??

Also whats the difference between Sleep & Hibernate?

RJC · 10 Oct 2009 at 14:08

Sleep will save the data to ram and will loose the data if the power is turned off.

Hibernate saves the data to disc so the pc can be switched off and moved without loss of data, I use Hibernate on all my machines when shutting down for what ever reason.

lettuce · 11 Oct 2009 at 11:46

Does Windows 7 have the Hibernate feature, cant seem to find it only sleep

RJC · 11 Oct 2009 at 11:53

It may not be enablled have a look at the link below:

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-hibernate-option-in-windows-7/

sturmtruppe · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:30

I use hibernate instead of shutdown, except for driver updates and stuff. ben working fine for just under a year!

lettuce · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:02

What do you mean except for driver updates?

RJC · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:06

When you install latest drivers for gpu's, other components were a full reboot is required or windows updates which install during a shut down.

ejr22 · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:15

Never used Sleep or Hibernate.

PGdude · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:38

Always use Hibernate. Never Sleep/Standby.

Use Turn off for updates.

JonJ678 · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:40

I've never used them either. What difference does hibernate make relative to shutting it down? Turns on quicker, applications don't shut?

PermaBanned · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:42

Sleep seems to have broken in Vista... whatever. I just shut it down, does anybody have any power consumption off/hibernate comparisons?

alex24 · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:43

I sleep my vista machine so it can wake up by itself, record any tv shows and sleep again.

Mr.Nick · 11 Oct 2009 at 22:46

Is Hibernation better than shutting it down or something?

Yiuca · 12 Oct 2009 at 00:34

Superewza said:
Sleep seems to have broken in Vista... whatever. I just shut it down, does anybody have any power consumption off/hibernate comparisons?

I use Vista & my comp goes sleepy-byes every night until it gets cold enough that my comp is my eternal heater for the winter!

But over the entire summer it has been fine entering sleep & resuming as soon as a keyboard button is pressed or the mouse is moved. I don't know about power consumption figures, I've been curious about it before but assume that since all the fans shut down & the computer appears to be off it likely isn't using up lots of juice.

Is Hibernation better than shutting it down or something?

Sort of sounds like it, except for me Hibernation takes just as long to resume as booting up, so I figure it's either shut down or sleep, to which sleep only takes a few seconds to resume back into windows browsers with 50 tabs & all in force as it were.

lettuce · 13 Oct 2009 at 00:03

Ok i used Hibernate for the first time last night, and turn the system back on today, and its just as if your turning the PC on from a cold boot!!!, the only advantage is it saves the windows you had opened when you put the pc into hibernate, doesnt boot quicker or anything, to me putting the PC in hibernate is abit pointless, think ill use sleep mode from now on, least with that it turns back on where you left off, no POST screen etc!!! How do you turn off wake up via mouse or keyboard?? is it in the BIOS settings?

DreXeL · 13 Oct 2009 at 00:10

I always use S3 sleep. To all intents and purposes the machine is off, the only thing still powered up is the ram. But within seconds of hitting the power switch it is back up and running

jim5000 · 13 Oct 2009 at 01:04

Shut down and turn everything off at the plug ***

lettuce · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:22

DreXeL said:
I always use S3 sleep. To all intents and purposes the machine is off, the only thing still powered up is the ram. But within seconds of hitting the power switch it is back up and running

S3 sleep?

DreXeL · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:35

lettuce said:
S3 sleep?

Basically the computer appears off, all fans, drives, displays etc. are powered down and the computer is 'out cold'. The ram however, stays powered up so when you switch the computer back on it 'boots' pretty much instantly.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6185330.html.

GHz · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:41

jim5000 said:
Shut down and turn everything off at the plug ***

Fully switched off, unplugged, taken to bits and put in the box.

It's like Christmas every day.

Sleep/Hibernate. Long term Safety

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