Thread: Sick and tired of hibernate failure....so..

Do this simple test: Fully charge, then unplug your laptop so it's running on just the battery. Put it into standby and leave it there over night or a couple days. Then bring it back up and see how much of your laptop's battery is drained. I'm pretty sure you'll still be at 99 or 98%.

I use standby on my system (you can check the specs) all the time. I do drive a lot and the longest I've parked my car since I've put the carputer in is a about a 20 hrs. There are power supplies that cut power if the battery gets below a certain voltage. or you can simply use a relay and cut the power to your laptop when the car's not running.

Originally Posted by GiODi

Do this simple test: Fully charge, then unplug your laptop so it's running on just the battery. Put it into standby and leave it there over night or a couple days. Then bring it back up and see how much of your laptop's battery is drained. I'm pretty sure you'll still be at 99 or 98%.

I tried that with a company laptop, I couldn't wait to leave for the day, so instead of shutting down or hibernating, I put the laptop into sleep mode :P

The battery didn't surprisingly last overnight! BUT when the batteries do go flat, all that happens is the laptop awakens and shuts itself down.

So I would agree, put a switch onto the main positive cable and switch it off at night, so its running only on batteries.

what thinkpad series is it and how old? I have a T60 (part of my job) and it IS a tank. It's been dropped, had tea and applejuice spilled in it (gotta love kids), runs FOR-EVER on batteries (I can literally get almost 5-6 hours battery time with the screen on full-brightness and only the cpu/hdd being thrown into their power reduced states), and has everything but a built in cardreader and firewire. I've never had a software glitch or driver mishap on it yet. Plus I love the feature that detects if the laptop is being moved and shuts the hdd down until the movement is stabilized.

Thing is still going strong (I did clean the tea and juice from the keyboard though).

so this PCMCIA adapter is what's causing all your headache? What devices do you have in the car that require USB2?

as far as I know, USB2 issues were encountered back in Windows98. As far as Windows 2000, XP and Vista, they should all automatically recognize and use USB2.0 capable controllers. You might want to just search Microsoft for "USB 2.0 hibernate" and see what comes up, if I remember right there have been a couple KB articles on the subject in the past that resulted in patches.