Woo! Load shedding, woo!

Weren't they told as kids not to play with the light switch. I'd rather have LS than LL. Can't believe I said that, but under the circumstances, I mean it.
 
i have noticed that when i download episodes during the morning and i tell the app to put the pc to sleep mode on completion, when i get home and the power was off at home earlier during the day and i push the power on my pc to wake it from sleep mode, the pc is still logged into windows.


Im guessing when its in sleep mode and the power goes off there i still enough juice in the power supply's capacitors to keep it from shutting down completely during those loadshedding hours. which is pretty cool
 
Dohc-WP said:
i have noticed that when i download episodes during the morning and i tell the app to put the pc to sleep mode on completion, when i get home and the power was off at home earlier during the day and i push the power on my pc to wake it from sleep mode, the pc is still logged into windows.


Im guessing when its in sleep mode and the power goes off there i still enough juice in the power supply's capacitors to keep it from shutting down completely during those loadshedding hours. which is pretty cool
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Say thanks to your cmos battery for that :p
 
Dohc-WP said:
i have noticed that when i download episodes during the morning and i tell the app to put the pc to sleep mode on completion, when i get home and the power was off at home earlier during the day and i push the power on my pc to wake it from sleep mode, the pc is still logged into windows.


Im guessing when its in sleep mode and the power goes off there i still enough juice in the power supply's capacitors to keep it from shutting down completely during those loadshedding hours. which is pretty cool
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Are you putting it into sleep mode or hibernate mode?

Hibernate mode turns your PC off completely and then restores it later using a "hiberfile" that contains all the data that was in your RAM at the time you turned it off.
 
StaggerLee said:
Are you putting it into sleep mode or hibernate mode?

Hibernate mode turns your PC off completely and then restores it later using a "hiberfile" that contains all the data that was in your RAM at the time you turned it off.
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i disabled hibernate a long time ago cause that hiberfile.sys just takes up useful space most of the time

Sleep mode !
 
Maybe it's hybrid sleep mode?

"Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate—it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers."

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions
 
StaggerLee said:
Maybe it's hybrid sleep mode?

"Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate—it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers."

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions
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im guessing its that ja, pretty orsome since it saves you hard drives from conking in the long run
 
Yay.

Stage 3 Load shedding confirmed from 16:00 to 22:00. So for everyone in the shitty time-slots (myself included), have fun!
 
Ours was earlier in the day, however if Stage3 continues until 22:00 we will be shed from 20:00 - 22:00 :/

Please Stage3 go away earlier
 
Our power is supposed to be off but it isn't. Not that I'm complaining. It's just that I don't know what's going on anymore.
 
_Caboose_ said:
Say thanks to your cmos battery for that :p
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Nope - has nothing to do with the CMOS battery. It's Windows hybrid sleep...goes to sleep the normal way but also writes to disk as it would for hibernate. So later it can either recover fast (if memory from sleep is still available) or slow (pulling it from disk if the memory got nuked by loadshedding).
 
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