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question.

will my t60 when it runs out of battery on suspend hibernate - or will it just turn off the power?

thank you.

romka wrote:question.

will my t60 when it runs out of battery on suspend hibernate - or will it just turn off the power?

thank you.

it depends on the settings you choose..

read the manual on that and you will find that it is quite flexible..

pressing the blue thinkpad button will bring up the instructions..

romka wrote:question.

will my t60 when it runs out of battery on suspend hibernate - or will it just turn off the power?

thank you.

You have a choice of setting it to your preference. There are two "power saving modes".

1) Standby (this is usually the default setting as it comes from the mfg)
2) Hibernate

To learn about this and more, press the Blue ThinkVantage button near the top of the keyboard. Instructions for you computer are there.

BillMorrow wrote:

romka wrote:question.

will my t60 when it runs out of battery on suspend hibernate - or will it just turn off the power?

thank you.

it depends on the settings you choose..

read the manual on that and you will find that it is quite flexible..

pressing the blue thinkpad button will bring up the instructions..

Bill -

Your post time 11:01 while at the same time here on the West Coast I'm responding concurrently - my post time 11:08.

I have always been just a few minutes late.....

guys,

that's fine - what i meant was - once it runs out of battery while suspended.


will it then hibernate - or will it just run out of battery?


thank you.

sorry for not being specific in my original post.

It should work.

I always have hibernate disabled (because I don't like that it automatically creates a 1GB file), but I have noticed that it will still beep and wake up when it gets to critical battery level.

I too don't like hibernate, but even if you turn it off in Windows, pressing Fn + F12 still sends it into hibernation. Me don't like...

romka wrote:what i meant was - once it runs out of battery while suspended.

will it then hibernate - or will it just run out of battery?

I suggest that you test this. Go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options > Alarms tab. Under Critical battery alarm, verify that alarm action is set to Hibernate. Click on Action button to change behavior. (You can set it to Shutdown instead of Hibernate if you prefer.) Now move the slider under Critical battery alarm to a high value and click on OK.

Make sure your AC adapter is unplugged, then suspend your computer. You can use Fn + F4 to do this. Make sure the crescent moon lights up at the bottom of the display lid (when the crescent moon is lit, the laptop is in Standby). Now wait several hours. The crescent moon light should go out as it enters Hibernation. Now turn computer back on and check the charge level of the battery. It should be near the level of the Critical battery alarm slider setting.

After verification has been made, reset Critical battery alarm slider back to a low value. The default setting is 3%.

The BIOS in the Thinkpad has a feature called "RediSafe" which allows for the mirroring of critical data in the memory during the suspend sleep state onto the HDD, a la a redundency copy operation during the suspend event, as a hibernation file.

RediSafe [Disabled] is default, Enabled is an option. Enable/Disable RediSafe functions that prepares Hibernation file during suspend mode for faster and safer operation.

The aforementioned quote was from;

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-61434

(Note: that is for a T43, but the BIOS text for the other T Series, X Series, and R Series machines are pretty much the same as they use very similar Phoenix BIOS units)

There is an option in the BIOS to enable RediSafe support; there is also support for such a feature in Linux.

See; http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Sleep_mode ; as well as the links on that page.

HTH

christopher_wolf wrote:there is also support for such a feature in Linux.

HTH

Thanks for the great post, did not know about the Linux part....

Archer6

It is disabled by default; so, unless changes were made to the BIOS re-enabling it, when the Thinkpad slips out of suspend in that test it will have no choice but to boot into Windows as it normally would.

You can also make neat use of the fact that swsusp2/swsusp goes to the S5 sleep state when you hibernate; so you can save your session in Linux and then go back into Windows, save that, then resume into Linux; provided you don't touch or otherwise interefere the swap partition that holds the suspend/hibernation files.

christopher_wolf wrote:It is disabled by default; so, unless changes were made to the BIOS re-enabling it, when the Thinkpad slips out of suspend in that test it will have no choice but to boot into Windows as it normally would.

You can also make neat use of the fact that swsusp2/swsusp goes to the S5 sleep state when you hibernate; so you can save your session in Linux and then go back into Windows, save that, then resume into Linux; provided you don't touch or otherwise interefere the swap partition that holds the suspend/hibernation files.

Thanks,
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Hello all,

I'm posting this in this olddddd thread because it was on a very similar topic and I didn't want to clutter the board with a simple question.

I had my first Thinkpad T60 shipped a week ago direct from Lenovo and noticed that the computer beeps everytime I put it in stand-by or hibernate mode, and it beeps again when I wake it up. It doesn't kill me but it becomes quite annoying since I regularly put my computer in stand-by and wake it up at the library.

I called tech support three times last night (yes, I didn't have much to do on a Wednesday night) to three different reps and got a little confused here. I asked if this was normal and the first two guys tell me, "no I've never heard of this before, did you disable the keyboard beep, and why don't you format the computer back to factory specs?" A couple hours later rep #3 tells me "All Thinkpads ever made make this sound by default and there is absolutely no way to turn it off."

So I ask you folks, do all Thinkpads beep when you put it in stand-by or hibernate and beep again when you wake it up?

Thanks for your responses and I'm looking forward to become a regular here. It sure does feel good to finally have a thinkpad though...

In the BIOS menu of my T42 (I'm not sure about the T60), there is an Alarm menu. One of the items is Power Control Beep. It can be enabled or disabled.

Access IBM Help wrote:If this function is enabled, a beep sounds when the computer enters a power management mode, when it resumes operational mode, and when the ac adapter is connected or disconnected.

If that doesn't fix it, in Device Manager, choose View > Show hidden devices. Under Non-Plug and Play Drivers, there is Beep. You can disable that.

I see... Thank you very much for your reply.

So just like the tech said, is the beep by default and does it occur for everybody with a Thinkpad? I was just alarmed because after using my HP laptop for four years, I've never heard such a noise.