Dj-[NRG]

so, if I get this right (my english is not that good) you're saying that most of the power when in standby goes to usb devices? isn't there a way to prevent that? some option to turn power to usb devices off when put in standby?

also, I'm using CF, and CF always says it's hibernating my system, but actually it's putting it in standbye i think... it resumes immediatly once i turn my system back on (2 sec)

Greetz

Dj NRG

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Fuse

Let's try and clear this up. While most computers consume extremely little or no power whilst hibernated there are some which don't shut the system down completely and continue to use far too much power. This is generally acceptable for workstations but is very undesirable in laptops and car PC's.

Most computers can be configured to allow some devices to bring it out of hibernation or suspended state. e.g. Network cards, modems, keyboard or any number of USB devices. In a well designed machine the power required to do that is very little. e.g. All the computers at work are configured for "wake on LAN". In this case only the network card is powered up, and then only in a very low power mode. The rest of the machine is using only a few microwatts, just enough for the circuitry to respond to a wake up signal.

Unfortunately many laptops continue to drain their batteries at an astonishing rate during hibernation and even more so during standby. I know many Toshiba laptops even continue to use a significant amount of power when they are supposedly powered down.

As you can see, what should happen and what does happen are not always the same thing.

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