acpi and the str/s3 state

[Alex Snow]

My box will do suspend, hibernate, shutdown, ... all that acpi stuff.
Windows 98 will not handle acpi as well as windows ME.  That's probably the
only + in ME.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: acpi and the str/s3 state


> I ain't no expert, but I hear tell that if you leave windows in that
> kinda state, things can get hosed. Windows apparently does not handle
> power management matters as well as they'd like you to believe. Of
> course to inject my two cents worth, why would you want to put the
> machine in this state. Maybe a laptop, but a desktop box suffers no ill
> affects from being left on 24 hours a day, but for fans having a little
> shorter life. I think for all this just turn the machine off all
> together.
>
> Scott
>
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