Alan Silverman
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Can I pull out the power cord after turning on hibernation?
I had this question after viewing win10 should i turn hibernation on?.
Environment: Windows 10 Professional Dell Optiplex XE2 I5 with 32GB RAM, 500 GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD with Samsung Magician in Rapid mode.
Recently I've begun to turn off my computer by putting it into hibernation mode and pulling the power cord out. I do this because I don't want anything to wake it up. When I put the cord back in and push the power button the computer comes up just like it was before. Is there any problem with this? Is there any length of time after which this won't work? Can I go away for two weeks, come back and put the cord back in turn it on and expect the same result?
Thanks,
Al
Environment: Windows 10 Professional Dell Optiplex XE2 I5 with 32GB RAM, 500 GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD with Samsung Magician in Rapid mode.
Recently I've begun to turn off my computer by putting it into hibernation mode and pulling the power cord out. I do this because I don't want anything to wake it up. When I put the cord back in and push the power button the computer comes up just like it was before. Is there any problem with this? Is there any length of time after which this won't work? Can I go away for two weeks, come back and put the cord back in turn it on and expect the same result?
Thanks,
Al
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As simple as the solution seems to be: I am not sure if it is correct. True, hibernation saves RAM to disk. But does it turn off completely? The state S4 (hibernation) and S5 "shutdown" are different. For example, windows will not allow task scheduler to wake up a system that's shutdown (S5) to execute a scheduled task. But it will allow scheduler to wake it up from hibernation (S4).
Read http://superuser.com/questions/561252/hibernate-doesnt-use-power-or-does-it for more inspiration.
That's because you asked "Can I go away for two weeks, come back and put the cord back in turn it on and expect the same result?" - I am not perfectly sure. Two weeks is quite long. A few days will of course work, maybe even weeks.
Read http://superuser.com/questions/561252/hibernate-doesnt-use-power-or-does-it for more inspiration.
That's because you asked "Can I go away for two weeks, come back and put the cord back in turn it on and expect the same result?" - I am not perfectly sure. Two weeks is quite long. A few days will of course work, maybe even weeks.
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Thanks for your update. I'll keep that in mind.
Al
Al
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Thanks,
Al