Does your computer's sleep button work and do you use it?

Do you use the sleep function of your computer?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 6 40.0%

  • Ughh, my computer can sleep?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • My computer does bazarr things when I put it under!

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • I R 2 Lzy

    Votes: 6 40.0%
  • Total voters
    15
vibrokatana

vibrokatana

New Member
Yet another poll. (Ya I know, go grab some stones and fling it at me)

So I was looking at my keyboard today, and I noticed a silver button in the upper right corner. Curious I pressed it and the screen slowly faded away and the computer went to sleep. Generally this makes me pretty angry because my computer doesn't like sleep very well and will usually crash on power up again.


...But it worked, it resumed in under 5 seconds, YAY!

So my question is, does your sleep button work. And do you actually use it to save on the power bill (I hate rebooting my computer, I only do it every other week for updates).

I generally avoided the linux sleep function because of fairly bad results in the past, either the video drivers going bonkers or other strange things. But the system works perfectly now.
 
The hibernate mode in the power control options on vista works on my computer but when I try to manually go to start and sleep it usualy fails. Last time I tried I had to completely unplug the unit before it would wake up. I'm sure there is some update or patch i'm missing but I never use the feature and am to lazy to fix it.
 
Exo-Slayer said:
The hibernate mode in the power control options on vista works on my computer but when I try to manually go to start and sleep it usualy fails. Last time I tried I had to completely unplug the unit before it would wake up. I'm sure there is some update or patch i'm missing but I never use the feature and am to lazy to fix it.
Click to expand...

Ya, I tried the sleep before and it would fail somewhere along the lines when booting up again and would automatically restart. My apple laptop sleeps perfectly, I love it. Close the lid and it goes to sleep, open it up and the login prompt is there 2 seconds later (all my machines are set to force login after 10 minutes of idle or returning from sleep).

Generally XP was hit or miss, I think it's more due to drivers then anything. Sleep also failed in vista with this desktop the 1 time I accidentally hit it. I'm only using linux on it atm so I get to dramatically cut power now :P
 
My "sleep" button does work. Like VK, I run a Mac. I don't have a dedicated sleep button, but I can close my laptop and it falls asleep immediately. Also, I can press the power key and a handy little box pops up asking me if I want to Restart, Sleep, Cancel, or Shutdown. Pretty neat!

I might mention that I occasionally have a little bit of a "drowsy" period when I try to wake my computer up. It likes to hold off for 5-10 seconds before it finally realizes that someone wants to use it. Surprisingly, this drowsiness only happens when I have my laptop password protected. When I don't require a password, it will change from being asleep to active in a fraction of a second.
 
Is the Stand by Mode the same as Sleep Mode?

On my keyboard, I have no button that has controls towards "Shutting down" the PC.

Just sound, playback, short-cut and macro keys.
 
I always do the whole "Start-Shut Down-Walk away" thing...
I was under the impression that turning you computer off is better then Sleep mode. But then again i have it on all day (after i get home from school) and turn it off for the night....
 
Shutting down a computer more than once a day really take a toll on it...Most computers shouldn't be shut down except once or twice a week, however, Windows is so unstable is sometimes has to be rebooted daily. If your stand-by works, use it MUCH more than shutting it down, your computer will last much longer...
 
XionTawa said:
Shutting down a computer more than once a day really take a toll on it...Most computers shouldn't be shut down except once or twice a week, however, Windows is so unstable is sometimes has to be rebooted daily. If your stand-by works, use it MUCH more than shutting it down, your computer will last much longer...
Click to expand...

Running your computer 24/7 can make it last longer, but you will need to replace mechanical parts more, I usually swap out my fans every 1.5 years and regularly shut down the computer once a month to inspect the condition and clean out the dust.

Hard disks generally will not have any issue with staying on 24/7, it certainly beats the windows power on cycle which is one of the worst things I have ever heard. That and windows powers the computer off without shutting down the hard disks, forcing them to use the remaining energy in them to swing the arm back onto it's resting place.

If you ever want a fun experiment, run linux and windows on the same computer and listen to how the hard drive sounds. Generally linux will be a continuous seek for large operations, while windows will pulsate almost. Windows probably has a read/write queue and is emptying it on a timer. Not anything wrong with it, it just sounds like a grunt of death at times.
 
I usually put my laptop into stand-by when I'm not using it. Means I can get back to what i was working on in seconds which is plus when you need to look at that document real quick. Though, I do have to do a restart every so often otherwise windows locks up.
 
I've been turning my computer off daily (well almost) for ~10 years and I have never had to replace anything but the video card (same hard drive, same cpu, same motherboard). I do know it always functions better if after leaving it on long periods I reboot it. I've never used sleep either. The main thing I've heard about killing computers is pet hair and cigarette smoke I have neither, but, I imagine any effect of them would be amplified by prolonged usage. (I would vote, but, there is no "no" option).
 
does sleeping save energy? i mean... if you do the standard star-up shut-down... do you use more energy with the initial turning on of your computer than if you just had it sleep for 6 hours at a time?
 
For PC users there are 2 types of sleep or "stand-by", S1 and S3, S1 conserves NO energy because the harddisks are still running, in S3 everything is stopped, but not shut down for fast access...and saves you a lot of money...
 
I do 3 to 4 times because of my work schedule, but before I went back to work is was about 2 times a week...
 
On the windows box, we simply turn off the monitor when it's not in use. On my macbook...well, it's a laptop, so closing the lid puts it to sleep. My Mac Mini stayed on all the time, but it hasn't even been hooked up since I bought my macbook. Speaking of that, does anyone want to buy a Mac Mini? :)
 
I don't use sleep. I'm too lazy.

donotwantee8.gif
 
XionTawa said:
For PC users there are 2 types of sleep or "stand-by", S1 and S3, S1 conserves NO energy because the harddisks are still running, in S3 everything is stopped, but not shut down for fast access...and saves you a lot of money...
Click to expand...

is there specific ways to turn each on... (well... i know how to put it in standard standby... yet if i could put it in S3, it could save me time when booting up.... sounds good.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top