R51 & WinXP: Automatic hibernate from standby?

[RBob]

The BIOS has a timer setting for automatically going into hibernation after being in standby for a time. I don't see any similar setting mirrored in XP's power management controls, and my machine doesn't seem to ever do it. The "RediSafe" setting in the BIOS doesn't seem to do anything either; from the description I would have expected the hibernation file to be written when the machine enters standby.

Standby and hibernation on their own work as expected.

I'm running XP Pro SP2 with all the latest drivers and utilities and the latest BIOS.

[monty cantsin]

The BIOS has a timer setting for automatically going into hibernation after being in standby for a time.

This is only a legacy option for operating systems that do not take control over the power management themselves. It's designed for plain DOS and the like.

I don't see any similar setting mirrored in XP's power management controls, and my machine doesn't seem to ever do it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... rch25.mspx

The preferred way, however, is to set the power management options via the IBM Battery MaxiMiser options, it also lets you create your own, custom schemes.

http://www.acs.nmu.edu/docs/Help/System ... imiser.php

The "RediSafe" setting in the BIOS doesn't seem to do anything either; from the description I would have expected the hibernation file to be written when the machine enters standby.

Exactly, but that's a legacy option, again. This only works with older Versions of Windows, it is not supported with any version of Windows 2000/XP/2003.