My box will do suspend, hibernate, shutdown, ... all that acpi stuff. Windows 98 will not handle acpi as well as windows ME. That's probably the only + in ME. ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <showell@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: Re: acpi and the str/s3 state > I ain't no expert, but I hear tell that if you leave windows in that > kinda state, things can get hosed. Windows apparently does not handle > power management matters as well as they'd like you to believe. Of > course to inject my two cents worth, why would you want to put the > machine in this state. Maybe a laptop, but a desktop box suffers no ill > affects from being left on 24 hours a day, but for fans having a little > shorter life. I think for all this just turn the machine off all > together. > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
