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Title: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: Mousepotato on August 09, 2011, 09:02:48 PM Hey I have a question re: Win7. Is it possible to put my machine into sleep mode at a certain time and then later have it auto-wake and start mining again? If so, what apps do I need to do this? Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: Starlightbreaker on August 09, 2011, 09:10:16 PM hibernation?
wake-up alarm on bios. Title: Re: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: enmaku on August 09, 2011, 09:12:44 PM It would be significantly easier to simply kill & restart your miner process using task scheduler. It won't save you *quite* as much energy/heat as fully hibernating, but the difference between an idle computer and a mining computer IS pretty substantial.
Just make a couple batch files, one containing the command you use to start your miner, the other containing something like: Code: taskkill /f /im:poclbm.exe /t Replacing poclbm.exe with the actual filename of your miner of course. Title: Re: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: Mousepotato on August 09, 2011, 09:22:58 PM It would be significantly easier to simply kill & restart your miner process using task scheduler. It won't save you *quite* as much energy/heat as fully hibernating, but the difference between an idle computer and a mining computer IS pretty substantial. Just make a couple batch files, one containing the command you use to start your miner, the other containing something like: Code: taskkill /f /im:poclbm.exe /t Replacing poclbm.exe with the actual filename of your miner of course. Cool, thanks! What would I use to launch those batch files at XX:XX hours? Title: Re: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: bcpokey on August 10, 2011, 12:26:41 AM http://lmgtfy.com/?q=task+scheduler
I always wanted to be the one to do one of those Title: Re: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day Post by: SleeperUnit on August 10, 2011, 12:50:22 AM Use task scheduler to run something like shutdown /h /t 60 to hibernate your PC and a BIOS wake on alarm to wake it back up.
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