Any issues using hibernate as an alternative to shutting down laptop ?

[raksrules]

I have a laptop with windows XP installed. I use firefox for most of the time. I plan to only hibernate my lappy and not shutdown. May be i can do an actual shutdown every week or so.
Is there any problem with this approach ??
Any thing i need to take care of ?

 

[axeman]

None at all. I do the same for days on end. Just ensure the hibernate process finishes fully before you pack the laptop in the bag. Else it may heat up inside the closed bag while hibernating (personal experience).

 

[triple s]

I was also happen to do so with my Desktop, and when i remove my gfx card and booted machine again, it asked me "to delete previous settings"... Can you tell me why it is so????

 

[raksrules]

On more thing..i had earlier experienced few months back with my home desktop. I had hibernated it and then when i restarted it , it refused to reinitialize the state where it was before the hibernation. I think i then started "windows normally" by pressing the F8 at start and thus also the hibernation thing proved futile in that case.

Any reason why that happened and how can i avoid that ?

 

[axeman]

I was also happen to do so with my Desktop, and when i remove my gfx card and booted machine again, it asked me "to delete previous settings"... Can you tell me why it is so????

On more thing..i had earlier experienced few months back with my home desktop. I had hibernated it and then when i restarted it , it refused to reinitialize the state where it was before the hibernation. I think i then started "windows normally" by pressing the F8 at start and thus also the hibernation thing proved futile in that case.

Any reason why that happened and how can i avoid that ?

For both of you:

1: If you hibernate, then change anything in hardware or bios settings, the wakeup will FAIL. This is because hibernate simply save the running state of the system memory to a file on the HDD. But changing absolutely anything linked to the system before wakeup, makes this saved state invalid, as addition or removal changes various parameters/ irq's/ etc etc technical stuff.

2. Sometimes if a hibernate is not successfully terminated, this can and will occur. For this many systems have a 4 second hardware shutdown delay AFTER windows shutdowns. This is a non issue in the latest systems.

Njoi.

 

[tush]

I have a laptop with windows XP installed. I use firefox for most of the time. I plan to only hibernate my lappy and not shutdown. May be i can do an actual shutdown every week or so.
Is there any problem with this approach ??
Any thing i need to take care of ?

There is no harm in using Hibernation. But make sure that there are certain applications and for that matter Windows itself that installs certain windows application and security updates like hotfixes, patches and service packs. Windows regularly keeps installing these updates if its set to automatic. So make sure you regularly atleast once a week do a normal shutdown and boot procedure for the updates to get installed and initialized on next boot.

Now lets say if you are following hibernation for say atleast 3 months continuosly and now one fine day you follow the normal procedure of shutdown. The next time you boot your system it may boot up just fine or it may not and give you some or the other error if it fails to complete the windows update procedure which was waiting for a reboot for changes to get affected as it also modifies the windows registry for it.

This may happen if lots of updates are installed and waiting for a reboot but you never rebooted the system.

This even happens to big servers which are not rebooted for months hence system admins always schedule a reboot of the servers and workstations during weekends when there is no work.

Hope this helps you understand your query.

If you hibernate, then change anything in hardware or bios settings, the wakeup will FAIL. This is because hibernate simply save the running state of the system memory to a file on the HDD.

The file is hiberfil.sys.

 

[triple s]

Thanks mate.....!! I got that now......