XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 1/26/2026 9:10 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Maria Sophia  wrote:   
      
   >> I'm not going to dig further (because I don't want hibernation anyway),   
   >> but I do thank you for asking me to dig deeper to confirm it does exist.   
   >   
   >   Quite understandable, no point spending too much time on something   
   > you're not going to use.   
   >   
   >   It would be interesting to see if sleep (manual or timed) works on   
   > your system and if so, which parts of the system are (not) powered down,   
   > i.e. when sleeping, is the monitor off/blank? are the disks not   
   > spinning? is the fan not spinning?, etc.. Normally only the power supply   
   > should be up a bit, in order to maintain the content of the RAM.   
   >   
      
   S3 Sleep uses +5VSB, and the power supply makes that with no fan running.   
   It makes +5VSB @ 2.5A or +5VSB @ 3A and that amount of power helps to   
   cover off the auto-refresh requirement of the DIMMs. If you plug in   
   too many iPhones to charge up while the computer sleeps, you could   
   overload +5VSB and the voltage could drop to zero. Then your S3 Sleep   
   is lost. Some machines have a single, specially marked port for charging.   
      
   If a machine is set for hybrid sleep, that is S3 plus a hiberfile,   
   and losing power isn't as much of an issue. if your iPhone charging   
   tips over an ATX PSU on a sleeping desktop, the session is   
   still recoverable (via hiberfile).   
      
      Paul   
      
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