Power Schemes/APM/Hibernate - What's the difference?

KachiWachi

The title says it all actually...

I know you don't need APM running to select a Power Scheme, which *seems* to only control the Monitor and HDD shutdown.

What will APM add to this?

Do you need APM running to Hibernate?

General info is welcome, but specific info on W2K Professional would be cool. Currently my DFI does not have APM enabled in the Control Panel, and the NT Apm/Legacy Interface Node is disabled.

Thanks!
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CPU - DFI 586IPVG, K6-2/+ 450 (Cyrix MII 433), i430VX, 128MB EDO.
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).

KachiWachi · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

Found some info here -> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255182

Hibernate Tab Is Not Available in Power Options Tool in Control Panel

"Windows 2000 makes its Hibernate feature available as part of the hardware abstraction layer (HAL); the feature is independent of APM or ACPI. Windows 2000 does not support OEM BIOS hibernation."

This is a start at least...
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CPU - DFI 586IPVG, K6-2/+ 450 (Cyrix MII 433), i430VX, 128MB EDO.
BIOS patched by BiosMan (Jan Steunebrink).