I usually leave my desktop computers at home in the standby (sleep) mode when I am not using them. It is an extremely low power level but provides for a nearly instant on when I want to use the machine. The screens go into a sleep mode as well.<\/p>\n
I don’t have them set to go into that mode automatically<\/em> as there are times when I have a very lengthy processing job running that may take hours to complete. These include large file transfers for backup and video processing. I can’t have a computer going to sleep in the middle of one of those operations. So I put them to sleep manually when I am done working rather than shutting them off.<\/p>\n \u201cSleep\u201d and then waking up is usually very reliable and is seldom a problem.<\/p>\n It does mess things up a bit when a computer is \u201csleeping\u201d and there is a power interruption. That too is seldom a huge problem except for today.<\/p>\n My big quad system was sleeping and the power went off. I like to be there when restarting so I don’t have any of my machines set to auto start. So when I tried a restart I soon realized it wasn’t going to do that. For some reason Windows 7 was not turning the USB keyboard back on after the boot ROM. The keyboard would work when editing in the on-board BIOS setup ROM so knew hardware was fine. A recovery disk would also not boot.<\/p>\n Making a long trouble shooting story short, I had to set the USB ports to Legacy On and finally the keyboard would come back alive after the BOOT ROM and I could transition into the Win7 recovery. It seemed like a strange time to become picky about USB legacy support as it had never been a problem before.<\/p>\n I am happy I can solve my own problems. I can hardly imagine what IT support people have to endure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I usually leave my desktop computers at home in the standby (sleep) mode when I am not using them. It is an extremely low power level but provides for a nearly instant on when I want to use the machine. The screens go into a sleep mode as well. I don’t have them set to go into that mode automatically as there are times when I have a very lengthy processing job running that may...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}