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    #21
    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    My computer doesn't have an "OFF" option. Just shutdown. After shutdown it can be woken by a magic packet, by pressing the power button (which is a toggle switch, not a switch that has the power going through it) and PCs can still be set up to be switched on by a PS/2 keyboard (not sure if that works for USB).

    It's not OFF. According to my power-meter plug thingy my old desktop was still using 1W when "OFF".
    Most desktops have a toggle switch on the PSU at the back, that is truly off. The power button as you say is for sleep/hibernate, not off in the true sense.

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      #22
      Originally posted by anonymouse View Post
      "...and it has for years worked fine."

      Time for a new one then?
      What do you mean?

      The Chunt of Chunts.

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        #23
        Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
        My computer doesn't have an "OFF" option. Just shutdown. After shutdown it can be woken by a magic packet, by pressing the power button (which is a toggle switch, not a switch that has the power going through it) and PCs can still be set up to be switched on by a PS/2 keyboard (not sure if that works for USB).

        It's not OFF. According to my power-meter plug thingy my old desktop was still using 1W when "OFF".
        Fair point.

        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        Most desktops have a toggle switch on the PSU at the back, that is truly off. The power button as you say is for sleep/hibernate, not off in the true sense.
        Hibernate IS off, as much as shut-down is off based on VM's wise words. Hibernate saves the RAM state to disk and then shuts down. But we quibble.
        Originally posted by MaryPoppins
        I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
        Originally posted by vetran
        Urine is quite nourishing

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