Stop Power Light Flashing while in Sleep?

[componentwarehouse]

Hi

I have my computer in my room, and generally, when I put Vista to sleep, I also try to go to sleep. Trouble is, the blue light ontop of my case always flashes when Vista is sleeping, which is extremely annoying. Question is, does anyone know how to stop the light flashing, other then disconnecting it?

ATM I have some paper covering it, but this sort of ruins having a nice case with some scrap paper over the on/off switch.

Thanks
Alex

[galaxyAbstractor]

Hi

I have my computer in my room, and generally, when I put Vista to sleep, I also try to go to sleep. Trouble is, the blue light ontop of my case always flashes when Vista is sleeping, which is extremely annoying. Question is, does anyone know how to stop the light flashing, other then disconnecting it?

ATM I have some paper covering it, but this sort of ruins having a nice case with some scrap paper over the on/off switch.

Thanks
Alex

Get a switch on the box where you plug in the computer in.

[componentwarehouse]

Yeah, I have a switch, but turning off the power means Vista cant sleep, as it saves to RAM. My system doesnt seem to have Hybrid sleep, dunno if that is just in Laptops of not, or whether theres a setting somewhere?

Thanks
Alex

[galaxyAbstractor]

Yeah, I have a switch, but turning off the power means Vista cant sleep, as it saves to RAM. My system doesnt seem to have Hybrid sleep, dunno if that is just in Laptops of not, or whether theres a setting somewhere?

Thanks
Alex

If you go to the power options in the control panel you can activate the other one. And when you close of where it says "shutdown", "restart" and thing, hold shift and you will see it

[componentwarehouse]

I think hybrid sleep is just for laptops, as I cant see it in the power properties (not even under advanced edit) and a quick google search revealed a serveral websites, from which I found "Windows Vista has a neat new feature for laptops called "hybrid sleep".". So unforunately that doesnt seem to solve the problem, although that would be a good way to do it and save some power to

Alex

[galaxyAbstractor]

I think hybrid sleep is just for laptops, as I cant see it in the power properties (not even under advanced edit) and a quick google search revealed a serveral websites, from which I found "Windows Vista has a neat new feature for laptops called "hybrid sleep".". So unforunately that doesnt seem to solve the problem, although that would be a good way to do it and save some power to

Alex

lol windows XP has hibernation that saves the current work and thing to the harddrive

[Sharky]

Hybrid sleep is available on PCs if the hardware supports it. But why not just use Hibernate?

[Spartan Erik]

You could just turn it off, but oh wait Vista takes forever to boot heh. Is the blinking light part of your power-on button? If not I'm sure you could just disconnect the power to it.

[componentwarehouse]

Yeah, its the blinking power light. So my hardware doesnt support Hybrid sleep, maybe I should just use Hibernate - Im not to keen on using it as it takes a little while to write 4GB to the disk and recall it next time. Also uses 4GB disk space .

Alex

[tnl2k7]

I know you said you don't want to disconnect it, but why not? If the light really is that annoying then just pull the cable off it's pin on the main-board. There's no way to change it unless it's in the BIOS, as that's where it's stored.

-Luke.