S3 sleep works. Yay

[HavocXphere]

I never used the PCs sleep function, but seeing as everyone is energy conscious these days I gave it a try.

And I must say, I'm bloody impressed. <5s to sleep and about the same to wake. (After switching off the hybrid sleep option).

Finally some silence without fan noise without missioning through a Vista shutdown/start-up sequence every time. I'm chuffed.

 

[Gnome]

I use to use suspend to ram (S3) all the time (until Load shedding), definitely worth it but it still uses more power VS. turnning the PC off since the RAM is still supplied with power, also with Eskom load shedding so much you might lose unsaved work

Unless you are talking about Windows hibernate, which is S4 not S3.

 

[HavocXphere]

Damn, the PPPoE doesn't want to dial now.

But, yeah, I was talking about S3. Works great...I just need to figure out whats wrong with the pppoe.

 

[Gnome]

Damn, the PPPoE doesn't want to dial now.

But, yeah, I was talking about S3. Works great...I just need to figure out whats wrong with the pppoe.

What motherboard are you using? Some motherboards have problems restoring LAN after S3.

Had to update my motherboard before it worked correctly.

 

[Just_Ice]

Yea I just use hibernate when Im not using the pc for a while...

 

[The_Techie]

I use Sleep for my laptop, which automatically hibernates if it's not woken in a set amount of time.

 

[Just_Ice]

I use Sleep for my laptop, which automatically hibernates if it's not woken in a set amount of time.

Thats quite clever... can you do this with a desktop?

 

[The_Techie]

Thats quite clever... can you do this with a desktop?

I assume so, if you're running Windows Vista have a look at the Advanced Power Settings

 

[newb5000]

I use Sleep for my laptop, which automatically hibernates if it's not woken in a set amount of time.

What I found really clever about Vista was:

I left my laptop in S3 sleep mode, unplugged, with my cellphone charging via USB.
I was curious to see what would happen - would the charging drain the laptop battery completely and then kill my laptop, losing the contents of the RAM?

Well, what happened was when the laptop battery was critically low, Vista powered itself up and then automatically went into S4 (Hibernate).

I think that is a really cool feature of Vista for laptops.

 

[The_Techie]

What I found really clever about Vista was:

I left my laptop in S3 sleep mode, unplugged, with my cellphone charging via USB.
I was curious to see what would happen - would the charging drain the laptop battery completely and then kill my laptop, losing the contents of the RAM?

Well, what happened was when the laptop battery was critically low, Vista powered itself up and then automatically went into S4 (Hibernate).

I think that is a really cool feature of Vista for laptops.

I had a similar experience, it is nice indeed

 

[HavocXphere]

What motherboard are you using? Some motherboards have problems restoring LAN after S3.

Had to update my motherboard before it worked correctly.

P5K vanilla. BIOS is up-to-date. The LAN/internet itself works, it just won't dial local-only.

Yea I just use hibernate when Im not using the pc for a while...

Hibernate just takes forever with >1gig ram. No idea why they need to saving the entire bloody RAM contents instead of just the part thats in use.

What I found really clever about Vista was:

I left my laptop in S3 sleep mode, unplugged, with my cellphone charging via USB.
I was curious to see what would happen - would the charging drain the laptop battery completely and then kill my laptop, losing the contents of the RAM?

Well, what happened was when the laptop battery was critically low, Vista powered itself up and then automatically went into S4 (Hibernate).

I think that is a really cool feature of Vista for laptops.

Damn, thats one clever OS/laptop combo you've got there.

 

[newb5000]

Damn, thats one clever OS/laptop combo you've got there.

Well that is how it works it seems. Another cool feature (but I think this was already in Windows XP MCE) is that you can schedule recordings via the Media Center interface and put your PC to sleep. Then, when it is time for the tv show to be recorded, the PC will wake up, record it, then go back to sleep.

 

[|tera|]

Damn, the PPPoE doesn't want to dial now.

But, yeah, I was talking about S3. Works great...I just need to figure out whats wrong with the pppoe.

Try to disable the network adapter, wait a second or two and re-enable. Also, right click on it and select Diagnose, Windows should be able to fix it.

 

[HavocXphere]

Try to disable the network adapter, wait a second or two and re-enable. Also, right click on it and select Diagnose, Windows should be able to fix it.

Those two were my 2 initial reactions. Also tried switching the router on and off. Nothing...

 

[|tera|]

Those two were my 2 initial reactions. Also tried switching the router on and off. Nothing...

Strange. What does the diagnosis say when you do it, no problems found?

What happens if you try to dial as well, do you get an error, or doesn't it dial at all? Also, have you tried making a new dialup connection?

 

[HavocXphere]

Strange. What does the diagnosis say when you do it, no problems found?

It says the internet connection is fine. (Since I'm connected anyway)

What happens if you try to dial as well, do you get an error, or doesn't it dial at all? Also, have you tried making a new dialup connection?

"Modem was not found or is busy" Error 797

The error is more or less instantaneous, its not even attempting to dial.

Also switch off power saving for the LAN card. Didn't help.

I dunno, this looks like one of those things one would just have to accept.

 

[|tera|]

Uninstall the network adapter from device manager and restart, this seems to be the all around solution on google

 

[Gnome]

Was the internet connection dialed already?

If not I'm pretty sure it's a motherboard issue, Asus regularly has issues with S3. My motherboard's LAN issue was only fixed about a week ago and the motherboard is quite old (M2N32-SLI Deluxe), and the only reason they are still updating the BIOS is because it's Phenom compatible and seems to be a popular choice for Amd upgraders. But try the Asus forums, people around there were quite up to date on what the regular issues were with my motherboard...