Guest Thomas M. Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 Windows XP SP2 We are currently evaluating Vista for deployment in our environment and we have learned that one of the supposed advantages to Vista is the enhanced power management features when running on a Certified for Windows Vista machine. We would like to test the power management features of Vista and do a comparison to XP SP2. Toward that end we have purchased a Watts Up Pro device to monitor power usage. I am planning to run XP and configure the power management options to save the maximum amount of power. I will then run Vista on the SAME machine and also with the power management options configured to save the maximum amount of power. The Watts Up Pro device will allow me to import the data to the PC and graph each data set (XP and Vista) on the same chart so that we can do a side-by-side comparison. So that's the background. Now the question. What options do I need to set in order to achieve the maximum amount of power savings under XP SP2? Is it as easy as just throwing the machine into Hibernate mode, or is there more to it than that? Thanks for any help that you can offer. --Tom
Guest Bob I Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 Re: Maximum Power Management Under XP SP2 Thomas M. wrote: > Windows XP SP2 > > We are currently evaluating Vista for deployment in our environment and we > have learned that one of the supposed advantages to Vista is the enhanced > power management features when running on a Certified for Windows Vista > machine. We would like to test the power management features of Vista and > do a comparison to XP SP2. > > Toward that end we have purchased a Watts Up Pro device to monitor power > usage. I am planning to run XP and configure the power management options > to save the maximum amount of power. I will then run Vista on the SAME > machine and also with the power management options configured to save the > maximum amount of power. The Watts Up Pro device will allow me to import > the data to the PC and graph each data set (XP and Vista) on the same chart > so that we can do a side-by-side comparison. > > So that's the background. Now the question. What options do I need to set > in order to achieve the maximum amount of power savings under XP SP2? Is it > as easy as just throwing the machine into Hibernate mode, or is there more > to it than that? > Yep, that's the max power saving setting. The computer is off with the exception of the motherboard monitoring the on switch. > Thanks for any help that you can offer. > > --Tom > >
Guest Thomas M. Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Maximum Power Management Under XP SP2 >> So that's the background. Now the question. What options do I need to >> set in order to achieve the maximum amount of power savings under XP SP2? >> Is it as easy as just throwing the machine into Hibernate mode, or is >> there more to it than that? >> > > Yep, that's the max power saving setting. The computer is off with the > exception of the motherboard monitoring the on switch. That's what I figured, but I wanted to make sure. The test would be no good if I got that little tidbit wrong! I haven't worked much with our new Watts Up Pro device, but if it allows me to export the data to a format that I could easily post here, I will do so. --Tom
Guest Bob I Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 Re: Maximum Power Management Under XP SP2 Thomas M. wrote: >>>So that's the background. Now the question. What options do I need to >>>set in order to achieve the maximum amount of power savings under XP SP2? >>>Is it as easy as just throwing the machine into Hibernate mode, or is >>>there more to it than that? >>> >> >>Yep, that's the max power saving setting. The computer is off with the >>exception of the motherboard monitoring the on switch. > > > That's what I figured, but I wanted to make sure. The test would be no good > if I got that little tidbit wrong! > > I haven't worked much with our new Watts Up Pro device, but if it allows me > to export the data to a format that I could easily post here, I will do so. > > --Tom You're welcome. For here, plain old text is preferred.
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