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How to Blue Screen Windows XP...

I have been at a conference this week, and so have been placing my laptop on standby rather than shutting down each time.  I also have 2 clients with incompatible VPN software.  The software is so incompatible that they cannot be installed on the same OS and actually work.

So, I needed to get to the other client's VPN, so I put the laptop on standby, swapped the disks, powered up the laptop, and boom, a Blue Screen.  I presumed that no memory of being on standby was anywhere but the hard disk.  Apparently the hardware is aware that it was on standby (which makes sense in retrospect).

Enjoy.

Posted: May 10 2005, 04:37 PM by douglas.reilly | with 2 comment(s)
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Damien Guard said:

I think you are confusing standby and hibernate.

Hibernate records the current state of the RAM, peripherals etc on the disk then actually switches off the machine so it can resume later.

Standby just turns off all periperhals that support it and puts the processor in low-power mode. The memory still contains everything you were doing.

If you really did a standby you're lucky you haven't corrupted your disks by doing this.
# May 11, 2005 4:11 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

Yes, that is certainly what I did. And just to clarify, I posted this just because I was so shocked at my own stupidity<g>. This is not a Windows "problem".
# May 11, 2005 10:45 AM
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