2006-09-28 02:24:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
In standby mode, the monitor and hdd are turned off and the CPU runs on low power.
When you ask the OS to hibernate, all contents available at that time in RAM are written to a non-volatile storage, usually the HDD. This is why tou need some extra free space on your HDD to enter this stage (the equivalent of your RAM is recommended).
When the pc comes back from hibernating, all the info that was stored here are written back to the memory, so the systems "comes back" to how it was running just before you asked it to hibernate.
Take it as an advanced shut down procedure :). (of course no one guarantees errors won't appear during this stage...). That's why it's advisable not do this very often!
2006-09-28 02:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by agent-X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on who you ask, it is essentially the same thing. The only difference is that when a PC hibernates, the last state of the PC is saved to the hard drive so if you power down the PC you can reboot back to where you were. Its takes longer to reboot because it has to reload all of your applications, data, etc.
Whereas if a PC is in "sleep" mode, everything is powered down except for the RAM and the CPU so everything stays right where it is so when you "wake" the PC everything comes back instantaneously.
2006-09-28 02:29:16 · answer #2 · answered by Joe K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On XP you have a choice of "Standby" or "Hibernate".
Standby copies the current state of your PC to RAM and then uses only a small amount of current to maintain the info in RAM. Most other things such as the hard drive, monitor etc are shut down.
Hibernate writes the current state of your PC to disk, and then shuts down everything.
Hibernate is a deeper sleep state than standby and uses less energy. As a result, coming out of hibernate takes longer - it requires the disk to spin up and to read information from the disk, whereas coming out of standby just needs to read info from RAM.
More details here:
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/windows/sleep.htm
2006-09-28 02:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like u ur pc has to go to sleep and it hibernates during the winter.
2006-09-28 02:29:13 · answer #4 · answered by dan m 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
sleep puts the monitor and hard drive into standby...they are still active, just powered down.
hibernation dumps all teh ram to a swapfile and shuts down.. your PCs data is then recoverable, if its in sleep, and it glitches to a reboot, youll lose everything.
2006-09-28 02:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
about the same...helps to protect your com should you move around a lot
2006-09-28 02:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's for longer.
2006-09-28 02:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by Stefanie C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No difference !!!!
2006-09-28 02:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by IloveMarmite 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
same thing
2006-09-29 04:52:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋