Matthew Wozniski wrote:
Hibernation does involve swapping everything in memory to disk,
freezing the state of all processes, and powering down the system.
But, the system being powered down does not mean that no part of the
system is receiving power. In fact, Wake On LAN technology is designed
to work on machines that are completely shut down - the only caveat is
that the motherboard reserves power for the network card, and the
network card scans for a particular magic packet addressed to it. If
that packet shows up, the computer turns itself back on.
This would be the first time that I've ever heard of this. Forgive me
for saying but do you have a reference?
So, not only can this bring a computer out of sleep or hibernation, it
can bring a computer out of a shutdown, too, as long as the device is
still plugged in.
Exactly! How would it bring my dead computer out or hibernation when
it's in a moving truck? Methinks you're still thinking of sleep mode,
not hibernation.
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end.
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