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Old 06-12-2005, 07:27 PM   #1
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Standby ???

When your computer is on standby, what is actually on??!

What are the components that are on?

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Old 06-12-2005, 09:14 PM   #2
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Most popularly used in laptops, generally the hard drives spin down, the cpu throttles back, and the display is blanked to a low-power state:

Here's an archived article from a few years back: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...02march25.mspx

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