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Software / Desktops: how to Hibernate ... ?
« on: October 13, 2006, 03:36:03 AM »
I'd like to install a desktop computer motherboard in a small boat to provide electronic navigation, but having a rather limited power supply it's highly desirable that the board (and display) be switched off completely when not in use, yet still retain the facility of bringing up the running nav program with it's last displayed chart reasonably quickly on demand.
Some years back I had a 486 Dell laptop with an S2D (suspend-to-disk) system, which did *exactly* this, and quite clearly the simplest solution would be to employ a similar but more powerful laptop similarly equipped - but I'd really like to use a desktop motherboard if at all possible.
I've tried XP's "Hibernate" function, and can get it to save the system on file ok, and recover same on power-up, but immediately after reading in the file, the system is then being forced to a re-boot and so flags up a error - offering to either try again or delete the system file and re-start.
So - some questions ....
Can this be done successfully (and reliably) on a desktop ? Has anyone actually achieved this ?
Is this a Bios issue and if so, which Bioses work (and which don't) ?
Is there a generic Windows Suspend-to-Disk program which will produce the same result ?
Recovering a system to a state *exactly the same as when you left it last* is such a useful procedure that I'm surprised that it isn't a feature more in demand. Conceptually it's quite a simple task - providing I'm not being asked to write the software for it, of course ...
Colin
Some years back I had a 486 Dell laptop with an S2D (suspend-to-disk) system, which did *exactly* this, and quite clearly the simplest solution would be to employ a similar but more powerful laptop similarly equipped - but I'd really like to use a desktop motherboard if at all possible.
I've tried XP's "Hibernate" function, and can get it to save the system on file ok, and recover same on power-up, but immediately after reading in the file, the system is then being forced to a re-boot and so flags up a error - offering to either try again or delete the system file and re-start.
So - some questions ....
Can this be done successfully (and reliably) on a desktop ? Has anyone actually achieved this ?
Is this a Bios issue and if so, which Bioses work (and which don't) ?
Is there a generic Windows Suspend-to-Disk program which will produce the same result ?
Recovering a system to a state *exactly the same as when you left it last* is such a useful procedure that I'm surprised that it isn't a feature more in demand. Conceptually it's quite a simple task - providing I'm not being asked to write the software for it, of course ...
Colin
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