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My computer is quiet enough for me to leave it on 24/7. The fan only comes on when doing heavy work - at all other times, it's silent. The only time I put it to sleep is when moving from room to room. I only hibernate when moving from building to building. I only shutdown when an installation requires a restart.
No. It would probably last longer if I did, but keeping the battery allows me to sleep the computer and unplug in seconds when moving around. If not, I'd have to hibernate to change rooms, and that takes too long.
Now that im on vista I usually just shut the lid and let it sleep. Its worth the minimal power usage when it comes to starting up Vista because it takes a few minutes
I only sleep, whether I am going from one place to another, or if I am sleeping. Is it bad?
Also, what's the difference between Sleep and Hibernate? If I take my battery out, which one of these will resume properly (I'm assuming both, but since I only started using it recently, I don't know).
Sleeping means your sys stores everything in ram, therefore when you open your laptop lid it opens back faster but if you take your battery out and now power is going to the ram to keep it alive then you lost all your current info. For hibernate your laptop saves everything to HD so it requires no power so if you take out the battery that's fine, because it doesn't need any juice. Hibernate does take a little while longer to get things off the HD though.
Same here, and not to hijack this thread, but have a problem with Windows Media Center waking computer from hibernation to download a TV Guide Listing. There's an "ehSched" event in WMC that I can't stop from waking computer and trying to connect to the internet. If anyone knows how to disable it, please post here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=176936&page=2
I put hibernate since that what I try to do the most, but for some reason Vista hides that option (and standby) most of the time, so I'm forced to shutdown.
The only reason I would shutdown would be I am security paranoid and don't want to leave anything in the HD(but I am not that paranoid). I just can't find one reason to prefer shutdown over hibernation. My XP has frequently last a few months between reboot, usually because of Windows update.
Strange. I see the sleep/standby as standard option in the 'start orbit'. Though because of the new hybrid mode, you no long see hibernation, unless you break this behaviour then you see the hibernation option. In Vista, standby is effectively sleep + hibernation, by default.
Your friend is wrong (at least with a laptop). In the past, desktop systems may have had trouble going to sleep, because the power supply still needed to be on to power the ram. This sort of left the rest of the system on too.
On a laptop everything is integrated and shuts itself down. You can tell by yourself just by listening to it. The laptop makes noise (the noise comes from 3 places, CPU fan, Video fan, and Drive motor), so you should be able to tell right away if it's not making noise, then the drive is not on.
When I first bought new notebook I fell asleep I was not sure if my notebook is using sleep/standby mode or hibernate mode (I assumed sleep mode) because I noticed power button led flashing while multimedia/wireless are off.
I shut off when I am not using notebook.
I use hibernate mostly--going from a class where I use my notebook to one where I don't. I also use it while sleeping. I use sleep when I'm traveling short distances or going to another class where I utilize my laptop. So yeah, Hibernate ftw.
Sleep most of the time (when going to classes, overnight, so on). Shutdown only when i need to restart. Hibernate when I won't be on my computer and away from power for a while (more than 20 minutes usually).
i keep it on if i dont have to move it. this is much healthier. bad sectors are created during startup plus this way the systems at a constant temp witch is better for the cpu. also i have it do the heavy downloading and work while i sleep. only turn it off once or twice a week just to get the memory flushed.
Moving a laptop does not cause bad sectors, nor does startup or shutdown. A bad sector comes from physical problems with the disc, such as if the magnetic layer was not created correctly. In practice, this is pretty rare, and drives are made with redundancy so sectors will take over if others are bad. This generally only happens on old drives.
Jarring the laptop around ad the wrong time, however, CAN cause a head crash. This is where the head physically touches the spinning disk and the head and the disk area are destroyed. This is not a "bad sector", and most likely will kill the whole disk (because the head is unusable).
So there's really no problem moving the laptop, as long as you are gentle when you do it. Don't drop it onto the table, just gently place it.
Also, there is no conclusive evidence either way with the temperature of the CPU or any other component causing failures in normal usage. Extreme cases yes. There are always rumors about how "expanding and contracting due to heat can cause more stress", but the reality is that there is nothing conclusive that says this is the case either way.
There are a lot of rumors about computers out there, many of which were started and perpetuated by some who don't have a full understanding of the issues. Just like many other rumors, they are often not true or not based on any real evidence.
I removed the storage used by hibernation (was like 1.99GB, found in disk cleanup), disabling hibernation (which I don't use), and just shut the laptop down = ="
I started seeing spikes in cpu while in screen saver, now I just use MonOff. Kills internal or external or both monitors instantaneously. My desktop stays on for weeks at the time. My laptop gets rebooted every other day or so.
Used to hibernate, but lately one of the updates I've installed stops the computer from turning off properly when I've selected hibernate. Shut down works fine and goes from start to finish in less than a minute.
As a desktop replacement (which is what I use my laptop for 99% of the time), boot in the morning, shutdown at night, nothing in between.
I would like to use sleep rather than shutdown most of the time, but unfortunately there's only around a 50/50 chance of it working when I've got various USB devices and an external monitor connected (it starts the process, turns off the screen but then gets stuck in a neverending loop trying to power down completely). I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly which device is causing the problem, so I have a feeling it's just my USB devices in general it can't deal with under certain circumstances.
Sleep appears to work fine every time if no external devices (aside from a wired mouse) are connected.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
