Computer - Wake Up!

[Bubblehead]

I suspect that my problem is associated with power management. My power management program allows my PC, after a period of unuse, to first go to a screensaver (Sea Scene) and then certain components shut down including the monitor which turns into black screen. I've had no problems with this set up. As soon as my move my mouse, the screen saver appears and when I click its "exit" icon, my PC goes immediatly to the full desk top.

Recently however during the past several days, when I move my mouse after having the PC unused, and after clicking on the screen saver "exit",  it takes the monitor a long time to show the full desk top. It wakes up slow, the icons appearing one at a time, often without the "Start" bar (lower left). Further, when I click on any of the icons, nothing happens right away. Instead, the screen turns white momentarily, then turns black and eventually, the screens turns normal. If I reboot while this phenomenon is occuring, I get a normal desktop.  I hope the explanation is clear. Any help is appreciated.

Bubblehead

[Bubblehead]

I just solved my own problem. It was the screensaver (Sea Scene) which was giving me the prolem. I went to Control Panel/Display and clicked "None" in the screensaver list. Now my PC wakes up bright eyed and bushy tailed.

While I'm at this, can anyone tell me what's happening if I elect to activate "Hibernation"? Presently my PC monitor shuts down after 20 minutes when unused and the HDs shut down after 25 minutes.


Bubblehead

[Scorpiоn]

Hibernation can be thought of as shutting down, with the exception of how things start up.  In a normal reboot, shut down etc, you get your clean desktop.  In hibernation, when you awke your PC, your desktop should return just as you left it.  This always sounded dubious at best to me, and I doubt it works as well as it would have you imagine.  I've never truly tried it.  It seems as though it would be more useful for laptops.

[GeForce]

While I'm at this, can anyone tell me what's happening if I elect to activate "Hibernation"?

If you "activate" it, nothing will actually happen. It just lets you have the feature available if/when you need it. If you're never going to use it, just turn it off and save a few mbs of disk space.

Hibernation is "suspend to disk". It puts everything you are doing into a file on the hard drive and shuts the entire system off. When you start up again, everything is loaded and the system appears as you left it. (This is as opposed to Sleep/Suspend to RAM, where the system puts everything into memory rather than disk. This makes for a quicker startup, but the system is still running, albeit at a lower power consumption rate.)

What 605 said can also be true. I've found in the past that putting a PC into hibernation can cause some things not to load up properly. In my experience, this has mainly been USB devices, like USB modems and printers.

If you want to try it, go ahead. If something doesn't load correctly, just reboot the system.

Jon

[Bubblehead]

Since I was able to resolve my original (slow wake up) problem, I will leave my power management set up as is and not mess with hibernation. But thanks for the various inputs.

Bubblehead