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Macbeast - 13/10/11 at 11:47 AM

A couple of times I have hit " Hibernate " instead of " Shut Down " and not been able to bring the machine back up. "Esc" and "Enter " don't work. What's the secret ?

blakep82 - 13/10/11 at 11:50 AM

press the power button quickly

mcerd1 - 13/10/11 at 11:58 AM

it'll wake from sleep mode on the enter / esc keys

but like blake says hibernate needs the power button (unless you can change the power on options in the bios)

Macbeast - 13/10/11 at 12:03 PM

Didn't work
Only thing I can do is crash it by holding in power button for 5 secs.

stevegough - 13/10/11 at 03:41 PM

Maybe you have to wait until spring??

mcerd1 - 13/10/11 at 03:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stevegough
Maybe you have to wait until spring??

PMSL

Which operating system have you got?


Just a wee explanation (sorry if this is teaching your granny to suck eggs…)
when its hibernating the power is completely off (it saves some stuff the hard disk so it knows what it was doing before it shut down) so you need to start it up just as if it was shut down - then when windows starts it loads the stuff it saved to the hard disk to pick up were it left off….

Sleep mode on the other hand just turns off the screen, hard disc etc and runs the bare minimum (like putting a TV on standby)

[Edited on 13/10/2011 by mcerd1]

Macbeast - 13/10/11 at 04:10 PM

Thanks Mcerd. I think maybe I'm not giving it enough time to shut down then. I hit hibernate and the screen immediately went black so I thought that was it. I'll try again next time it happens. Vista btw

Now, what was that about sucking eggs? Gie ye the bolk



[Edited on 13/10/11 by Macbeast]

dhutch - 13/10/11 at 04:49 PM

I almost always hibinate my machine rather than shut it down, running XP, which i understand is now the norm for windows 7 PC's?

However i did have one machine that just would not hibanate, and simply crashed everytime. Never got to the bottom of it but a fresh install of windows did the job a year later.


Daniel

mcerd1 - 14/10/11 at 08:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
I hit hibernate and the screen immediately went black so I thought that was it.

that doesn't sound right.... (I don't have vista though, but I do have all the other windows versions from 3.11 onwards...)

have you got enough free disc space ?

[Edited on 14/10/2011 by mcerd1]

jossey - 14/10/11 at 09:20 AM

there is a setting in your bios for any key boot up. which will work when you drop the pc into hibernate.

if you enable this in teh bios when you hibernate you can just press a key on USB/ps2 keyboard

DixieTheKid - 14/10/11 at 10:29 AM

hit the space bar.