"danstar84" wrote:
> Fitz wrote:
> > "Standby" is like idling your car in "Park"- your not doing
> anything, but
> > the engine is still running- and the fan keeps turning. If
> you have
> > temperature regulated fans, they will turn slower, and
> therefore produce
> > less noise, but they shouldn't stop. Your computer would
> overheat in Standby
> > mode if cooling didn't keep running.
> >
> > Fitz
> >
> >
>
> When I put my PC on standby, everything turns off. Fans and
> all. Don't
> know if it is a setting on the motherboard or something like
> that. I
> have an Asus MB also.

"rom1l" <UseLinkToEm***@HardwareForumz.com> wrote in message
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> "danstar84" wrote:
> > Fitz wrote:
> > > "Standby" is like idling your car in "Park"- your not doing
> > anything, but
> > > the engine is still running- and the fan keeps turning. If
> > you have
> > > temperature regulated fans, they will turn slower, and
> > therefore produce
> > > less noise, but they shouldn't stop. Your computer would
> > overheat in Standby
> > > mode if cooling didn't keep running.
> > >
> > > Fitz
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When I put my PC on standby, everything turns off. Fans and
> > all. Don't
> > know if it is a setting on the motherboard or something like
> > that. I
> > have an Asus MB also.
>
> the fan in my last computer also turned off in standby mode, most
> computers fans do.
>
> maybe it is a setting somewhere?
>

"Fitz" wrote:
> Could it be a difference between "Standby" and "Hibernation"?
> Hibernation=
> Your computer saves all stored information and then shuts
> down. I do not
> have Hibernation enabled. In Standby, my fans continue to
> turn, (the power
> LED flashes and there is no hard drive activity). I can access
> Standby mode
> from the Start menu, or the "Sleep" button on the keyboard. If
> I put the
> computer into Sleep with a screen other then the desktop open,
> when I wake
> it, it comes back up to the item I had left open. In
> hibernation mode, I
> believe it would open to the desktop as if you had restarted
> the computer.
>
> Fitz

"rom1l" <UseLinkToEm***@HardwareForumz.com> wrote in message
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> "Fitz" wrote:
> > Could it be a difference between "Standby" and "Hibernation"?
> > Hibernation=
> > Your computer saves all stored information and then shuts
> > down. I do not
> > have Hibernation enabled. In Standby, my fans continue to
> > turn, (the power
> > LED flashes and there is no hard drive activity). I can access
> > Standby mode
> > from the Start menu, or the "Sleep" button on the keyboard. If
> > I put the
> > computer into Sleep with a screen other then the desktop open,
> > when I wake
> > it, it comes back up to the item I had left open. In
> > hibernation mode, I
> > believe it would open to the desktop as if you had restarted
> > the computer.
> >
> > Fitz
>
> How do i enable hibernation? i dont have this as an option on my
> windows xp.
>
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