Re: Why is the ATX PSU designed to standby current?

From: Andreas Hadler (Andreas.Hadler_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:11:57 +0100

John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote:

>Why doesn't Windows suspend to disk? Just copy all of ram to disk and
>*fully* shut down, zero power. Restart would take about 2 seconds;
>spin up the disk, restore RAM, run.

How do you plan to restart the actual state of the hardware?
You'll need a lot of driver intelligence to restore all register
settings - some settings even could make no sense on a different time.

Andreas 

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