i have recently read about the hibernation option in Win XP and decided to
try it. I have 'put' my pc into hibernation mode successfully a few times,
but twice now after the computer has shut down
it has restarted on its own after a period of time. Is this meant to happen?

thax

"PSitsMagic" <cigamps@hotmail.com> wrote:

|>i have recently read about the hibernation option in Win XP and decided to
|>try it. I have 'put' my pc into hibernation mode successfully a few times,
|>but twice now after the computer has shut down
|>it has restarted on its own after a period of time. Is this meant to happen?

Yes and no, depends on what you want it to do.

Stay in hibernation? go into your bios and disable anything that
starts with WAKE ON - or similar.
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thanks but .....nope nothing there saying wake or similar, im basically
wanting it to stay off in hibernation and was wondering how and why it turns
itself back on

PSitsMagic wrote:
Remove the WOL wire from your NIC?

PSitsMagic wrote:

Turn off hibernation and start/stop your system normally.

now we are getting technical...sorry not got a clue wot you are on about

LOL, thanx anyway :-)

"PSitsMagic" <cigamps@hotmail.com> wrote in
newstBAe.144245$Vj3.123515@fe2.news.blueyonder.c o.uk:

I don't recommend hibernate. Hard drives are made to run ongoingly, and
most damage to electronic devices are done at startup.

Hibernate plays upon the false reasoning that if something is shut down,
it will last longer. Not so with electronics. As mentioned, startup is
where almost all damage is done.

Now with hibernate, you are constantly starting and stopping your hard
drives. I may be wrong, but I think I see a corollary between the advent
of hibernate in Windows, and shorter HD life. Hard drives used to outlast
the computer - now three of four years is a good life span.

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"elaich" <a@b.c> wrote in message news:3jh17bFpk6roU2@individual.net...
Drives are designed for 50,000 start/stop cycles which is approx 136 years
if shutdown once a day. Hibernation stresses your HD much less than a cold
shutdown.

No it doesn't. As far as the state of ALL the hardware in the computer
is concerned, hibernation *IS* a cold shutdown. That is, all power is
turned completely off.

"David Matthew Wood" <nodmwood78@verizonspam.net> wrote in message
news:nodmwood78-1BF7FA.22392114072005@news.verizon.net...
Listen to your HD when you shutdown or startup. All that activity and wear
is eliminated by hibernating.

Martik wrote:
system RAM to the HD when you hibernate (see hiberfil.sys in your root
directory). In my case that's a half gig that gets written/read when you
go in/out of hibernation. Hibernation is great because you can get right
back to where you were relatively quickly but it doesn't really lessen
the wear and tear on the HD all that much, if any.

No it isn't, as when you hibernate all the contents of RAM is dumped to
the hard drive and then read back when you power up anyway.

Of course my computers pretty much stay on 24/7 anyway unless we lose
power or I want to upgrade or something..