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Shutdown vs. restart vs. S3 standby
Is one better than the other?
Is there an article I can view on this? -- Please do not top-post. |
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"John R. Sellers" wrote in message
... Is one better than the other? Shutdown trys in an orderly way to shutdown your apps and the OS, and then removes power from the system. This insures the next time you start the system it starts from a cold boot and all hardware gets a power on reset. Restart is almost the same as a Shutdown followed imediatly by a power on, but it doesn't remove power from everything. It's refered to as a warm boot. It attempts to reset all hardware, but there could be a slight difference in the the state of the some hardware where power was not really removed. In general it should not make any difference compared to a cold boot. I consider a piece of hardware that requires a cold boot rather than a warm boot defective, but, that's just me. Standby halts user program execution (but does not terminate them), puts the OS and the system in a low power state, may shut off the disks and other hardware (in an orderly fashion) and may reduce the speed of your processor. The system maintains it's state and can be awakened very rapidly. Marc Reinig System Solutions |
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"Marc Reinig" wrote in message . .. "John R. Sellers" wrote in message ... Is one better than the other? Shutdown trys in an orderly way to shutdown your apps and the OS, and then removes power from the system. This insures the next time you start the system it starts from a cold boot and all hardware gets a power on reset. Restart is almost the same as a Shutdown followed imediatly by a power on, but it doesn't remove power from everything. It's refered to as a warm boot. It attempts to reset all hardware, but there could be a slight difference in the the state of the some hardware where power was not really removed. In general it should not make any difference compared to a cold boot. I consider a piece of hardware that requires a cold boot rather than a warm boot defective, but, that's just me. Standby halts user program execution (but does not terminate them), puts the OS and the system in a low power state, may shut off the disks and other hardware (in an orderly fashion) and may reduce the speed of your processor. The system maintains it's state and can be awakened very rapidly. Marc Reinig System Solutions So you're basically saying that one isn't necessarily better than the other; they're just different? -- Please do not top-post. |
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Right.
Marc Reinig System Solutions "John R. Sellers" wrote in message ... "Marc Reinig" wrote in message . .. "John R. Sellers" wrote in message ... Is one better than the other? Shutdown trys in an orderly way to shutdown your apps and the OS, and then removes power from the system. This insures the next time you start the system it starts from a cold boot and all hardware gets a power on reset. Restart is almost the same as a Shutdown followed imediatly by a power on, but it doesn't remove power from everything. It's refered to as a warm boot. It attempts to reset all hardware, but there could be a slight difference in the the state of the some hardware where power was not really removed. In general it should not make any difference compared to a cold boot. I consider a piece of hardware that requires a cold boot rather than a warm boot defective, but, that's just me. Standby halts user program execution (but does not terminate them), puts the OS and the system in a low power state, may shut off the disks and other hardware (in an orderly fashion) and may reduce the speed of your processor. The system maintains it's state and can be awakened very rapidly. Marc Reinig System Solutions So you're basically saying that one isn't necessarily better than the other; they're just different? -- Please do not top-post. |
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