G50V leds are blinking in sleep mode

Anyone know how to get them not to do that?

When I put my computer in sleep mode... I wanna sleep. Slightly annoying to have my computer blink up the whole room

I tried all the different settings (I think) in direct console without any luck.

 

I just hibernate mine

 

nope theres no way to turn it off
just shut the whole thing down it boots up fast for me anyways

 

I read somewhere that actually turning it off wears the hardware so avoiding that would be nice. And I prefer sleep mode since it's way faster than booting

Will try hibernation, but I find it silly that I can't decide if I want my laptop to blink or not.

 

Personally, I use hibernate a lot more than sleep. It's true that sleep starts up a lot quicker, however it's always safer to hibernate since it physically turns off the notebook when stored in a bag during travel.

Sleep simply powers down the the main components, but the mainboard is still functional and essentially still using battery. So if the machine accidentally turns on in your travel bag, it may overheat and cause permanent damage given the period of time.

 

I don't think that statement is really true, and even if it is, it won't impact the life of the notebook and it will far outlive your use if given no defects or neglect. There's no possible way you can leave a notebook running 24/7 365 a week like a stationary desktop.

 

agreed, this happened to me a few times with older notebooks and always scared the crap out of me, or worse it was on while i didn't bring my charger and killed the battery !

 

I noticed this too, and its really dumb because Im sure thats killing the battery faster when its in sleep mode since it needs to power those lights.

 

I'm with you, hibernate might be better. But err, aren't you just as likely to turn your computer on in the bag with hibernate as sleep?

 

Put a small dark towel over it at night..that's what I did. But will probably start using hibernate.

 

I can't believe Asus never thought of this, pretty dumb IMHO. I'm sure enough complaints would cause ASUS to update its console software.

 

No, because hibernate requires you to hit the power button. It's exactly the same as a machine that has been turned off.

Whereas sleep is essentially still turned on, and can be triggered to wake on an OS level, driver level, or keyboard. It's just on "standy" which is what sleep really is.

 

I can't actually seem to hibernate my system for some reason. When I go into power options it only shows sleep as an option, and if I choose hibernate in power 4 gear it puts my computer to sleep 0.o Any ideas?

 

There are a number of reasons to not turn your computer off, from a hardware stress point of view. Every time you shut your computer off, or put it in hibernate mode, you are going thru a heat cycle. What happens with the constant heating/cooling is chip creep, generally what you can think of as physical stress from expansion/contraction and it's not a pretty thing.

Also the data from a google study on hard disk life shows a trend that the more times the disk is powered on and off, past a certain age, the higher the rate of failure. There are some caveats in their technique, such as the possibility that those older disks were also tied to older systems which required more maintenance thus more power cycles.

It probably doesn't matter for the warranty period of your laptop. But if you're in for the long haul it is something to keep in mind.

References:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/01/why-nvidia-chips-defective?page=2

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf#page=10

EDIT: IF u wanna get uber technical it's not chip creep anymore in newer computers, that is when chips work out of sockets (an older design problem), but it's still pretty much the same concept. Just don't wanna misinform anyone on a specific point. The important thing is the thermal cycle screwing up your siliconzzz