My laptop has some issues with power settings at times.
1. About a month after I got it, Vista downloaded an update and since then Hibernate = Sleep. I've checked, and the power button is set to hibernate, but it just goes into sleep mode.
I know it's sleep mode for 2 reasons:
1. The power light on the laptop flashes while in sleep mode.
2. It turns itself back on at 3am for a virus scan/update.
Up until then, it did hibernate correctly.
As a result, both sleep mode and hibernate are rendered useless.
(For those who don't know, Sleep saves state to RAM, and turns off the screen and hard drives. Hibernate saves state to HDD and turns everything off.)
2. 6/10 times, it won't come out of sleep mode caused by power running out. I have to hold the power button to make it shut down, then restart. This causes the "Windows did not shut down properly" prompt at startup. It's a nuisance while playing a game.
3. The low power notification. Lots of problems here:
It's easy to not notice
It goes off at 4 minutes. Sometimes that's way too late.
It crashes games at times.
It causes graphical corruption in games at times (requires game restart)
Usually, I play all my games in Steam nowadays as that replaces the Windows prompt with Steam's own, non game crashing, earlier and more obvious notification.
1. About a month after I got it, Vista downloaded an update and since then Hibernate = Sleep. I've checked, and the power button is set to hibernate, but it just goes into sleep mode.
I know it's sleep mode for 2 reasons:
1. The power light on the laptop flashes while in sleep mode.
2. It turns itself back on at 3am for a virus scan/update.
Up until then, it did hibernate correctly.
As a result, both sleep mode and hibernate are rendered useless.
(For those who don't know, Sleep saves state to RAM, and turns off the screen and hard drives. Hibernate saves state to HDD and turns everything off.)
2. 6/10 times, it won't come out of sleep mode caused by power running out. I have to hold the power button to make it shut down, then restart. This causes the "Windows did not shut down properly" prompt at startup. It's a nuisance while playing a game.
3. The low power notification. Lots of problems here:
It's easy to not notice
It goes off at 4 minutes. Sometimes that's way too late.
It crashes games at times.
It causes graphical corruption in games at times (requires game restart)
Usually, I play all my games in Steam nowadays as that replaces the Windows prompt with Steam's own, non game crashing, earlier and more obvious notification.
