You probably can't do it on a desktop because it requires special bios. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Krzys Majewski wrote: > No, but I think what you call 'hibernation' is what I meant by 'sleeping' > in my post about power management. Has anyone got this to work? > Will it work on a regular machine, ie not a laptop? > -chris > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > I just bought a laptop (dell inspiron 5000) and put potato on it. I've > > been struggling with getting hibernation to work. I created the > > hibernation partition with the little dos utility that came with the > > machine, but still no dice. The bios are set to "suspend-to-disk" so I > > had sort of hoped that just doing Fn-Suspend would save the ram to disk > > and shut off. This is not the case, the machine just does a lowpower > > suspend. Windows has a hibernate option, which does what you would > > suspect, saves the ram and shuts off. > > > > I just wanted to know if anyone has had any luck with this sort of > > thing, or has any suggestions. Thanks. > > > > -Aaron Solochek > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
