Questions about Hibernating your computer

Never used it, stand by always freezes, used to just leave my computer on 24/7 or shut off at night, but want to start saving money on utility bill and think that shutting and restarting my pc several times a day is probably bad for it. Is hibernating the same as shutting down your computer completely with all power off but the only difference being it doesnt restart your operating system and programs? Will this save just as much power as shutting to down? Does it wake up instantly like standby would? thanks!

computers can be turned on and off without hurting them. Hibernating just saves everything in the ram to the hdd then turns off, no different from shutting down but it starts up much faster. imprezawrx500

It's usually faster but not nearly 10x faster. If you have lots of ram and/or a slow HDit could even be slower. What it does is write the ram contents to the HD, shut down and reload the content from the HD in the ram when you start up again. I use it all the time on my laptop but never on my desktop.

Some programs don't cope well with hibernate (they no longer work after coming back from hibernation) and you can have network issues (since windows thinks the network connection is still the same while the network was obviously cut)

Hibernating will save the information in the RAM but will waste energy for the RAM, the RAM needs energy to mantain the data load so will use some in the case of a deskop a few mW and in the case of the Laptop the battery if the computer is unpluged. About the performance in speed, hibernating will load faster because the info of the kernel and other drivers is in the RAM but for example if you are working on a wireless link and a program that use wireless, this program could fail because the protocols are down while they go up again but maybe the program in that case needs to be reopened. Let me know if you have any question.

i always use this when im not going to come back in 2 minutes or less. startups are faster this way but you should still shut down and reboot every once in a while

I used to put my computer to sleep instead of turning it off, but every since I added a 2nd GTX 260 for SLI it doesn't want to wake back up properly with SLI enabled, so now when I go to sleep at night I shut down my PC.

Hibernating will save the information in the RAM but will waste energy for the RAM, the RAM needs energy to mantain the data load so will use some in the case of a deskop a few mW and in the case of the Laptop the battery if the computer is unpluged. About the performance in speed, hibernating will load faster because the info of the kernel and other drivers is in the RAM but for example if you are working on a wireless link and a program that use wireless, this program could fail because the protocols are down while they go up again but maybe the program in that case needs to be reopened. Let me know if you have any question.

PipeBigboss

[QUOTE="PipeBigboss"]

Hibernating will save the information in the RAM but will waste energy for the RAM, the RAM needs energy to mantain the data load so will use some in the case of a deskop a few mW and in the case of the Laptop the battery if the computer is unpluged. About the performance in speed, hibernating will load faster because the info of the kernel and other drivers is in the RAM but for example if you are working on a wireless link and a program that use wireless, this program could fail because the protocols are down while they go up again but maybe the program in that case needs to be reopened. Let me know if you have any question.

mike4realz

[QUOTE="mike4realz"][QUOTE="PipeBigboss"]

Hibernating will save the information in the RAM but will waste energy for the RAM, the RAM needs energy to mantain the data load so will use some in the case of a deskop a few mW and in the case of the Laptop the battery if the computer is unpluged. About the performance in speed, hibernating will load faster because the info of the kernel and other drivers is in the RAM but for example if you are working on a wireless link and a program that use wireless, this program could fail because the protocols are down while they go up again but maybe the program in that case needs to be reopened. Let me know if you have any question.

ncderek

[QUOTE="mike4realz"][QUOTE="PipeBigboss"]

Hibernating will save the information in the RAM but will waste energy for the RAM, the RAM needs energy to mantain the data load so will use some in the case of a deskop a few mW and in the case of the Laptop the battery if the computer is unpluged. About the performance in speed, hibernating will load faster because the info of the kernel and other drivers is in the RAM but for example if you are working on a wireless link and a program that use wireless, this program could fail because the protocols are down while they go up again but maybe the program in that case needs to be reopened. Let me know if you have any question.

ncderek

Never used it, stand by always freezes, used to just leave my computer on 24/7 or shut off at night, but want to start saving money on utility bill and think that shutting and restarting my pc several times a day is probably bad for it. Is hibernating the same as shutting down your computer completely with all power off but the only difference being it doesnt restart your operating system and programs? Will this save just as much power as shutting to down? Does it wake up instantly like standby would? thanks!

ncderek

[QUOTE="ncderek"]

Never used it, stand by always freezes, used to just leave my computer on 24/7 or shut off at night, but want to start saving money on utility bill and think that shutting and restarting my pc several times a day is probably bad for it. Is hibernating the same as shutting down your computer completely with all power off but the only difference being it doesnt restart your operating system and programs? Will this save just as much power as shutting to down? Does it wake up instantly like standby would? thanks!

muirplayer