Yet another computer question
 

I used to always use the "Hibernate" button on my laptop to turn it off, since it would start up a lot faster. But now it seems to ignore the Hibernate button. Is it a BIOS thing? Any ideas why it doesn't want to hibernate anymore. The only difference is I have been using Wifi.

System is XP. Latest update just loaded (Microsoft seems to mint those faster than North Korea prints $100 bills...)

Control panel, power options, hibernate, enable hibernation is checked.

And the hibernate tab says I need 500M hard drive space to hibernate and I have 82 times that amount available (41G)

Always worked before, for 2 years, now not.

I don't know where the setting is, might be BIOS might be in networking. BIOS would be my bet though.

Look for 'Wake on LAN', this is a setting that allows networked computers to be shutdown, then woke up by a network packet it to it, allowing updates to be applied even if the computer is 'Off'.

Somehow I attracted "Big Fix" to my computer. Doesn't seem to be a problem and who knows, might could use it someday.

But I've noticed that whenever the Big Fix icon is flashing down on the accessories or whatever bar on the bottom right, I can't go into hibernation mode. When I clicked it while it was flashing most recently, it came back with some crap about their not being a problem. The why in the hell were you flashing the 'big fix needs to correct something' crap?

It's a long shot, but who knows, might be some other program or application half opened that needs to be closed first.

In the power settings window that you get in the control panel, there should be a place to select what you want certain buttons to do.



There should be one that says "When I push the Hibernate Button" and just below it, it should say what you want it to do..

No such setting. There is a setting for the "sleep button" (which I don't have AFAIK). It is set to stand by, which the computer also doesn't do when I push the hibernate button. I was able to find a work-around by putting the setting for closing the lid to "hibernate", and to my surprise, when I closed the lid it did hibernate. It just ignores the "Fn" "F1" (hibernate). I know the Fn and F1 buttons work because they work seperately and with other combinations. It just ignores this combination now. Very strange.

Did you reformat recently?

No. Only change is I started using Wifi. I tried disabling that, to see if it would then hibernate, but that didn't make any difference. I got Verizon DSL, and they have you load this CD Rom. It loaded a bunch of "stuff". I don't know what all. Maybe I shouldn't have put that disc in...

I have found that running services sometimes interfere with hibernate or standby mode. One recent example for me is SNMP using an extension DLL; I do not know if it was SNMP.EXE or the extension DLL that was at fault.

Did installing WIFI involve any new services?

And no, you should not have put that disk in. Perhaps it has an uninstall that actually works...

I love my my Mac. The Mac that I use in my business is older than my grandkids. Do I dare say MACs RULE? :cool::cool::cool:

Nothing wrong with a Mac, if it does what you need. But I wouldn't get very far if I didn't work with Windows systems.

If its more than 4-5 years old then it must look something like this right?: :D :D

http://www.metaformdesign.com/images/02-abacus.jpg


MAC's are way too overpriced. PC's are capable of a much wider range of activities....and can run Linux. Case closed. MAC OS on normal computer hardware would be ok, but paying for the shiny case privilege is pointless IMHO.

Sorry young man, but my Mac is 8 years old and it still does everything I need it to do, including some high end graphics.

Who said that you can't run Linux on a Mac?
Mac OS X is essentially desktop Linux.

OS X costs money. Linux is free. Mac OS X can only be customized within the constraints placed upon it by Apple. Linux can be customized to an extraordinary degree, with the right knowledge. Mac OS X requires Apple hardware (most of the time). Linux is the same whether its running on a PowerBook, a PC, or yeah, even an Xbox.

You can even run Windows on a Mac...but you can't run Mac on Windows ;)

The only thing you need is Boot Camp from Apple to support FEDORA.

If you have Mac OS, then Linux has things to offer. Mac has everything Windows has and more.

100%, Windows don't come even close to Mac graphic applications.

Some of us need features that require no graphics.

If you have only used Microsoft's "home" OS products, you are missing out. Server 2003 is much, much better than XP, for example. But that's for real work, and not workstation stuff like your Mac.

Mac sells servers, yes, but who buys them?

Well the best thing about Mac Servers is that they are using a lot of open source application and they can support Windows AND Linux users.
With Windows server you need to pay Mr Gates every time you want new application.
While this is not the subject of this topic, even being more expensive than Windows clients for the initial purchase, Macs have a much lower TCO in many environments comparing to Windows.