Noob on Hibernate

[Caseyjones]

I notice a lot of posts refer to 'when the system comes out of hibernate ...'

I am thinking of setting mine up to hibernate rather than needing to purchase a small forest to offset my carbon generation .

Is there anything special that has to be setup either in the bios or in windows, or do I just enable hibernate?.

If I have recordings scheduled how does the system restart to make the recording?

[HtV]

In energy settings set a time for system inactivity, and enable hibernation.
Gbpvr will wake your system up 1 min. (I think) before the recording is supposed to start and also at the set time for epg-update.
Make a few test recordings to test it. I think some systems need a certain setting in the bios but I'd try first.

Hans

[Caseyjones]

I'm confused! Is the computer on or off when hibernating?

As how can gbpvr be running to wake the system up if it is hibernating?

[gEd]

off

I believe that wake up events are written (by gbpvr and windows scheduled tasks etc) to a table in the bios which continues to be receive power. The bios then wakes the pc up at the right time.

Hibernate saves the system state to disk and powers down the pc. When the pc wakes up, it loads the system state from disk back into memory.

Standby suspends all operations and switches everything off but maintains a trickle voltage to the memory so that the system can continue from it's previous state when it wakes up.

Therefore it takes a little longer to wake from hibernate than it does from standby.

I suspect the difference in power consumption between the 2 states is pretty small.

[HtV]

I suspect the difference in power consumption between the 2 states is pretty small.

That very much depends on your system. When I put my sytem to standby the fans keep running, so that's a real difference to hibernating. I must say I never really dug into it, it could very well be a setting in bios or what ever.

Hans

[gEd]

the fans on every pc's I have every build all switch off when going into standby. Are your fans connected to the motherboard or via 4-pin molex connectors to the psu.If the later, i would suspect your power supply is acting dumb.

[HtV]

the fans on every pc's I have every build all switch off when going into standby. Are your fans connected to the motherboard or via 4-pin molex connectors to the psu.If the later, i would suspect your power supply is acting dumb.

Thanks for the info, I might check it out tomorrow.

Hans

[Retired2k]

Thanks for the info, I might check it out tomorrow.

Hans

You may also want to check out the BIOS. Look under power management. I don't remember the option but it sounds like you have S1 selected, you need to have S3 selected for that option. S3 standby will shut everything down like gEd described in the reponse above.

[HtV]

Ok, thanks I'll keep that in mind when/if I get to it.

Hans

[nemulate]

Also you may find that even changing the standby state to s3 that your machine still won't shut down completely. It seems that sometimes you have to set this option in the bios before you install your o/s! Hopefully won't be the case for you!