Re: Trouble with hibernating/sleeping

From: Gene E. Bloch <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:09:55 -0700

On 10/23/2006, eepp posted this:

1. My computer keeps waking up from sleep mode. At first I thought is was vibration from people walking, but I don't think this is true. I put the comp in sleep and made sure all was still, it popped back on in about 3 minutes.

2. Is there a difference between Hibernate and Sleeping?

Thanks.

Yes.

Hibernate saves the computer's entire memory to disk and turns the computer OFF. Really off. When you turn it back on, it reloads memory from the drive and then starts from where it was.

Sleep (standby, officially) puts the computer in a low-power ON state that preserves the current contents of memory. When it wakes up from this, it basically just goes on from where it was.

It is my understanding that scheduled recordings and the guide downloads can't be started from hibernation. They definitely can be started from standby.

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