Hibernating
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Hibernating
Hello all,
Is it normal for a hibernating PC (eee netbook) to drain the battery within a day? i.e. a battery that when fully charged will run the machine for 3-4 hours normal operation but only lasts about 8 hours hibernating. Is this normal behaviour?
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Octane
Is it normal for a hibernating PC (eee netbook) to drain the battery within a day? i.e. a battery that when fully charged will run the machine for 3-4 hours normal operation but only lasts about 8 hours hibernating. Is this normal behaviour?
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Octane
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Are you quite sure it is hibernating, not in Standby or Sleep? Both of these consume power, the latter to keep the RAM active.
Hibernate is supposed to be the lowest power drain, where the contents of RAM are written out to disk (hiberfil.sys), and the PC powered off.
That's generic Windows / laptop behaviour, I don't know the eee devices, so I can't say how well they implement power save modes, but it does sound a bit low to me.
SD
Hibernate is supposed to be the lowest power drain, where the contents of RAM are written out to disk (hiberfil.sys), and the PC powered off.
That's generic Windows / laptop behaviour, I don't know the eee devices, so I can't say how well they implement power save modes, but it does sound a bit low to me.
SD
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Wow, Saab thats a rapid response, Power of pprune...
I'll delve into its innards and report back. I thought hibernate meant days of life in the beast rather than what I'm experiencing.
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Octane
I'll delve into its innards and report back. I thought hibernate meant days of life in the beast rather than what I'm experiencing.
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Octane
Please also tell us what sort of Eee it is. My 1005 sits on standby for a couple of days at least As SD says, hibernate shouldn't sap electrons - when mine's been hiberated with a 100% charge, it wakes up again with 100%. I mean, the machine is off, after all
If you have an old 700 series Eee it is possible that standby will drain it in a day if it's been worked hard.
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Please also tell us what sort of Eee it is. My 1005 sits on standby for a couple of days at least As SD says, hibernate shouldn't sap electrons - when mine's been hiberated with a 100% charge, it wakes up again with 100%. I mean, the machine is off, after all
If you have an old 700 series Eee it is possible that standby will drain it in a day if it's been worked hard.
SO
