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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Joshua Gioja <jgioja@usgs.gov>
  Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:53:02 -0500

Re: Suspend to RAM

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:12:46AM -0600, Joshua Gioja wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sven Kirmess wrote:
> 
> I believe suspend stops everything but memory refresh. My ThinkPad would
> last for several weeks or months suspended without plugging it in.
> 
> I think you are describing standby.

On my desktop system (Asus P5A, ATX power supply), I can still play audio
CD's in my CD-ROM drive when suspended - this implies that the power to all
drives is on (although hard disk spindown works, of course).  Also the CPU
fan continues to spin for a while until the CPU cools off, or something.

I haven't checked the power usage on my system under these conditions, but
it's probably more than 5W.

Have fun,

Avery