Question for the PC guru's

[Bruce]

This device is invisible to the operating system. There is no communications between it and the PC.

[sayzer]

This device is invisible to the operating system. There is no communications between it and the PC.

And I guess no software intervention is desired nor is planned then.

I was thinking; a small program works in background listening to an interrupt on PCI bus; and when it happens, the software disables the selected peripherals. As far as I know, there are 256 interrupt options. I might be wrong.

Wouldn't this be an easier way?

I am no PC guru BTW.

[Luciano]

Resume from hibernate will always require the use of the power button.
(The mouse or the keyboard will not wake the PC from hibernation).

[Bruce]

There are no communications pipes or connections between this hardware device & the PC, so there is no way for any software running on the PC to interact with it

[Bruce]

Resume from hibernate will always require the use of the power button.
(The mouse or the keyboard will not wake the PC from hibernation).

I wish that were true. I setup my Windows ME machine to enter hibernate on a quick press of the power button.

It works perfectly, but it will wake from hibernate on mouse movement or a key-press...;o}

ME does not provide options to disable wakeup via mouse or keyboard.

[Luciano]

The PC is probably not going to hibernation. The PC is powerd off when it goes to hibernation.

The hibernate feature saves everything in memory on disk, turns off your monitor and hard disk,
and then turns off the computer.

When you resume from hibernation the BIOS performs the typical Power On Self Test (POST),
and then reads the hibernation file, Hiberfil.sys, to restore the state of the computer.
Everything that was running when you put the computer in hibernation is restored.

[Bruce]

It definitely appears to be entering hibernate mode. Under Power Options Properties, Advanced, I have Hibernate selected when I press the power button.

I press the power button momentarily, and it does appear to enter hibernate mode. It takes a good while for it to wakeup.. But mouse movement, a key-press on the keyboard, or pressing the power button again will wake it up. Windows ME does not give the option to disable wakeup via mouse or keyboard activity.

It saves everything I had going prior to hibernate, just as explained on the link you posted, and it for sure does take longer with hibernate selected VS Stand By mode when it wakes up. Am i missing something?

[skimask]

If I remember right, when my PC's go into Hibernate (either by the option in one of the logoff menus or the power button if it's configured that way), I get a Progress bar on the screen both when it goes into and when it comes out of Hibernate. Keyboard, Mouse, doesn't power the system up, only the power button.

For standby, it goes straight to the logoff screen (but doesn't really logoff), stays for a couple of seconds, then shuts down. On power up (either by the keyboard, mouse, or power button if so configured), the screen just pops up the same as when I hit Standby.

Do you get the Progress bar along the bottom of the screen on Power up after the post?