hibernate, sleep or shutdown?

[jackiev]

Replacing a Dell Optiplex Gs 5166M with a Dell Precision 360 Minitower (Windows NT4.0 sp6). One very useful funtionality of the 166 is the shutdown to a restart window. "It is now safe to power off your computer, or click restart button". Since the CPU was located behind a closed cabinet, the user was able to shutdown to the 'restart' window & then just click restart when they returned the next day. I have been told this is a bios power management setting. How should it be configured? What is the difference between hibernate & sleep? Does one of these two options give me the 'safe to power off' message? Any suggestions?

THANKS!

 

[Smar969905]

I have had no experience with Win NT4, but I have had the sleep thing on my computer that was running XP Home, and if I didn't wake it up within something like 10 minutes, it wouldn't wake up right and I would have to restart anyway. For the Hibernate option, I don't know if there is any difference between that and sleep. I am not familiar with the sleep/hibernate functions on computers. I do know that sleep is supposed to be a super low power mode so it is only the RAM, processor and keyboard that are getting power. It is also supposed to start up faster than if the computer was coming from a cold start.

Anybody else have any more knowledge on this topic, please put in. This is about all I know.


Smar969905

 

[Freestone]

See section Hibernate and Standby – What's the Difference? in Microsoft's article

Cut Power Use and Extend Battery Life with Standby and Hibernate