This illustrates why I have avoided hibernation: it's never worked reliably enough to be worth it. Stand-by works fine and if I need to save battery life, I'll turn the system off.
> "Consider the following scenario, you have a multiprocessor computer > that is running Windows Vista or Windows XP, the computer has exactly > 32 processors and you resume the computer from hibernation (S4)," > Microsoft said. The Redmond company revealed that, in this case, > either XP SP3 or Vista SP1 running on multiprocessor machines will > stop responding and present the user with a black screen. The Black > Screen of Death is displayed upon the resume from hibernation action. > Such a process will successfully block Vista SP1 and XP SP3, the > operating systems requiring a restart in order to regain > functionality. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
