Quote: Originally Posted by
Autockr989 
How do you have the standby set up. In bios? In Windows? right now when I shut the car off the computer stays on until power supply timer kills power to the computer. Monitor shuts off, but computer stays on, Should I not be running this way.
If by that you mean that you are using standby (s3 or sleep) instead of hibernate (s4) you might want to consider doing it differently.
S3 powers most stuff down but retains information in ram (volitile memory) hence the need to retain some power to the computer. Should something interrupt the power to the computer (like your psu will do when due to the drain on the battery from keeping the computer powered for a long time, it shuts down the computer to ensure you are able to start the car later) you will loose the image of the state windows was in when put to sleep, so it wont wake up. It will have to do a full reboot.
S4 copies the contents of ram to the hard disk, then completely shuts down the computer. No power is needed to resume from S4, it stays on hard disk till you restart the machine (you could completely remove the pc from the car and when you powered it up it would resume from where you suspended (hibernated) it.)
So you might want to set yours up to S4 hibernate as soon as you shut the key.