I searched for answers to this topic but didn’t get my answer (or at least I didn’t understand completely) so sorry if this is a repeat. My power panel settings are for spreadsheet with the only change in screen brightness. Before yesterday, when I closed the lid the computer went into hibernate -when I opened it back up and hit the power button I got the black screen with the bar running across saying restarting Windows. Now when I close it the screen goes off and the power button flashes amber which I think is standby. I left it like that for about 2 hours this morning and it was still blinking when I got back. When I hit the power button the screen popped up - no black screen/restarting windows like before. How do I get it to hibernate again? Thanks
You should have 2 power icons in the taskbar in Windows. One is the VAIO power panel with the profiles, the other is the Windows one showing a battery or power cable. Right click the Windows one ensuring you leave the power scheme set to PowerSuite scheme then go to the Advanced Tab & choose your options for power button & lid (you may need to reset your TR after).
Thanks so much for the help. Turns out my “enable hibernation” was unchecked in the Windows power options which is weird because I never enabled or disabled it. Once I checked the enable button the machine hibernates just like it used to. Also love the fn shortcuts!
Standby is much quicker like an instant On/Off option but uses battery life as the system is put to sleep but the RAM memory is maintained so you start where you left off. With the standard battery I think Standby time is over 80Hrs. If your battery runs flat while in standby you loose your data.
Hibernation copies the contents of the RAM memory to your hard disk before fully powering Off. When starting up it recalls the memory from your hard disk so you carry on where you left off. No Data is lost if you fully discharge your battery.
I only use standby myself if I’m on main power in the Office but want to turn PC off (save the environment and all + hopefully preserve TR’s life).
I use Hibernate instead of actually turning the TR off as its quicker than a full shutdown & startup (but ocassionally fully shutdown).
[quote author=“psikey”]Standby is much quicker like an instant On/Off option but uses battery life as the system is put to sleep but the RAM memory is maintained so you start where you left off. With the standard battery I think Standby time is over 80Hrs. If your battery runs flat while in standby you loose your data.
Hibernation copies the contents of the RAM memory to your hard disk before fully powering Off. When starting up it recalls the memory from your hard disk so you carry on where you left off. No Data is lost if you fully discharge your battery.
I only use standby myself if I’m on main power in the Office but want to turn PC off (save the environment and all + hopefully preserve TR’s life).
I use Hibernate instead of actually turning the TR off as its quicker than a full shutdown & startup (but ocassionally fully shutdown).
Interesting, I havn’t really played with either of these. Do any of you have different testimonies regarding standby / hibernate?
Truth: You really should give standby/hibernation a try. It’s pretty rock solid and it saves you so much time. As Erik mentions, Standby for short term sleep (i.e. you want to run over to Starbucks) and Hibernation for long term sleep (i.e. you are working on some stuff but need to step out for a couple of hours). The great thing about these modes is that you don’t have to close your programs. You can basically leave everything open and Windows will save the state so you can quickly boot the machine and start working without needing to re-load your apps.
So, it probably takes 2 minutes to boot up normally. Standby wakes up in about 2-3 seconds. Hibernation probably takes around 30 seconds (if even that) to boot. It saves a lot of time!
That’s true but only if your system is set to do that. I believe most of the Sony’s are set to hibernate (from standby) once it reaches a critical rate like 3-5%.
By default most laptops do that if the battery is low. In XP stanby and hibernate have come a long way. I think ME had hibernate but it was slow and often failed leaving the OS not fully shut killing your battery. With XP it’s run flawlessly for me and makes boot up time much quicker…
I wish my TR had the quick standby on/off like my PowerBook does, now that comes on very quickly, sometimes even before I can get the screen all the way open. I also like that you can set opening the laptop up to wake the computer, definitely a nice feature. The throbbing sleep light is also very cool. The TR is still my main machine though, but there’s always room for improvement!
[quote author=“cellery”]I wish my TR had the quick standby on/off like my PowerBook does, now that comes on very quickly, sometimes even before I can get the screen all the way open. I also like that you can set opening the laptop up to wake the computer, definitely a nice feature. The throbbing sleep light is also very cool. The TR is still my main machine though, but there’s always room for improvement!
Thats not the TR’s fault as it is for the OS.
Apple computers will always run a bit better for things like that because the OS was designed only for the hardware where XP was designed for thousands (or millions perhaps) of configurations.
[quote author=“tifosiv122”]By default most laptops do that if the battery is low. In XP stanby and hibernate have come a long way. I think ME had hibernate but it was slow and often failed leaving the OS not fully shut killing your battery. With XP it’s run flawlessly for me and makes boot up time much quicker…
Erik
Totally…in the Win9x/ME era standby and hibernation was essentially a joke. I really started using it with Win2K where it was pretty darned good for its time. XP is even better in this respect.
The TR’s standby recovery is still pretty fast. It may not be triggered by opening the lid but at least it comes back just by touching any key.
I do like Apple’s built-in power management though. It’s built-in fairly deep but again that’s because they have such control over the hardware. From what I’ve seen, Longhorn will have much better control over power management so we’ll get there eventually.
XP does have decent control over some hardware and they continue to update when they can. For instance, XP can use some of the power management features of processors and chipsets natively. XP has native support for Transmeta’s Crusoe chips and their Longrun power management. The OS can dynamically change the processor speed depending on the task without any special software. I suspect native Pentium M support will be added in the future. Right now we have to use Sony or Intel’s software to modify the settings and control the processor.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]I suspect native Pentium M support will be added in the future. Right now we have to use Sony or Intel’s software to modify the settings and control the processor.
Thats true, I forgot about that. I am not sure how much I trust Microsoft to have control over my CPU speed…and I read somewhere today they are dumping the standard P4 architecture, but I think the P4m will survive…the more notebooks have it, the more support companies will ask Microsoft to provide.
