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.
Topic: Win7 Question: Hibernating my machine during certain hours of the day (Read 989 times)
August 09, 2011, 07:50:22 PM
August 09, 2011, 07:26:41 PM
August 09, 2011, 04:22:58 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:
Replacing poclbm.exe with the actual filename of your miner of course.
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?
August 09, 2011, 04:12:44 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:
Replacing poclbm.exe with the actual filename of your miner of course.
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.
August 09, 2011, 04:10:16 PM
hibernation?
wake-up alarm on bios.
wake-up alarm on bios.
August 09, 2011, 04:02:48 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!
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