Using Stand By Instead Of Power Off

[Guest rick s]

At night I always power down my PC. During the day if I'm

going to be off it for a while I started to put in it stand by. The problem

I have some times is when I put it in stand by I come back to it and the PC

light is on solid and the fan keeps running until I power off the PC. Am I

doing some thing wrong?

[Guest Colon Terminus]

Re: Using Stand By Instead Of Power Off

 

"rick s" <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:983B06DA-C1FE-4606-83E3-FB47D4C6BCA5@microsoft.com...

> At night I always power down my PC. During the day if I'm

> going to be off it for a while I started to put in it stand by. The

> problem

> I have some times is when I put it in stand by I come back to it and the

> PC

> light is on solid and the fan keeps running until I power off the PC. Am I

> doing some thing wrong?

>

 

 

No, you're not doing anything wrong.

 

Standby and Hibernate don't work well on many computers and apparently yours

is one of them.

 

 

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[Guest PD43]

Re: Using Stand By Instead Of Power Off

 

rick s <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>At night I always power down my PC. During the day if I'm

>going to be off it for a while I started to put in it stand by. The problem

>I have some times is when I put it in stand by I come back to it and the PC

>light is on solid and the fan keeps running until I power off the PC. Am I

>doing some thing wrong?

 

Dunno...

 

Question: what's wrong with leaving it on 24x7 and just shutting off

the monitor? Your computer doesn't eat that much electricity, and

leaving it on 24x7 doesn't prematurely wear it out. Leaving it on

that long also ensures that you'll get an automatic restore point on a

daily basis, and your computer will be available for any updates that

appear, or virus scans, etc. that might otherwise slow things down at

startup.

[Guest Unknown]

Re: Using Stand By Instead Of Power Off

 

Use hibernate instead of standby.

"rick s" <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:983B06DA-C1FE-4606-83E3-FB47D4C6BCA5@microsoft.com...

> At night I always power down my PC. During the day if I'm

> going to be off it for a while I started to put in it stand by. The

> problem

> I have some times is when I put it in stand by I come back to it and the

> PC

> light is on solid and the fan keeps running until I power off the PC. Am I

> doing some thing wrong?

>

[Guest Jeff Barnett]

Re: Using Stand By Instead Of Power Off

 

PD43 wrote:

> rick s <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

>

>> At night I always power down my PC. During the day if I'm

>> going to be off it for a while I started to put in it stand by. The problem

>> I have some times is when I put it in stand by I come back to it and the PC

>> light is on solid and the fan keeps running until I power off the PC. Am I

>> doing some thing wrong?

>>

>

> Dunno...

>

> Question: what's wrong with leaving it on 24x7 and just shutting off

> the monitor? Your computer doesn't eat that much electricity, and

> leaving it on 24x7 doesn't prematurely wear it out. Leaving it on

> that long also ensures that you'll get an automatic restore point on a

> daily basis, and your computer will be available for any updates that

> appear, or virus scans, etc. that might otherwise slow things down at

> startup.

>

The problem, assuming Southern California power costs, is approximately

$200 per year per typical computer. Recall, S3 suspend/sleep mode will

probably draw less than 5 Watts including the monitor. S1 or awake/idle

will draw between 150 and 200 Watts.

 

-- Jeff Barnett