Quote: Originally Posted by
ArcaneDreams 
Yeah I suppose I could run it off something else, however as one person has experienced...the power supply drained their battery. So I would rather get the power supply to work correctly. Especially since I paid a lot for it.
As for the 30 second shut down, I am referring to the time it takes for the power supply to send the shut down signal. Once the signal is sent it takes about 3 seconds to hibernate.
If your PC takes 30 seconds during the actual hibernate screen, then perhaps you should look into upgrading your PC, or stream-lining your OS.
On all 4 of my Pc's, all of them Core2Duo. When you put them in hibernate the screen is turned off within 3 seconds. But if you watch the hard drive light , it takes over 30 seconds for the pc to actually shut everything down.
Now in my car when I turn off the car it takes about 30 secs for the pc to go into hibernate mode and turn off the screen.
I just assumed this was because I had the screen hardwired to the PC 12v power supply so it wasn't turning off the screen immediately. But I guess that wouldn't matter and it should turn off the screen after 5 secs.
And now that you mention it when I was installing my pc in the car the battery did go dead once, the M4-atx didn't shut down the PC at any time. had to jump it back off.
Maybe there is a defect?