Been a while since I used a Thinkpad.

Standard Windows power management is under the Control Panel. Don't know where the IBM thing is, but it's probably available through the start menu.

And I have to go now, so I'll leave you in the capable hands of my colleagues.

I think that what Didactylos is looking for is an IBM-Thinkpad specific control power management panel....also not seen the magic BIOS word, but guess you've looked there as well.

ciao

Added: Found a post on a German forum where its said it pretty much an event seen across all platforms but sporadic........2 things that changed for me recently were adding ram and upgrading to 5.6.x.......never looses a beat now.

on heartbeat, ...doubt it as I've had situations until recently where the front end lost contact with science part for the duration of the night...killed it, and science continuing running. Restart of BOINCmgr.exe would pick up at the point where the science had progressed. The Firewall was here the source of the trouble.

Basic Input/Output System.....it's that pre-check of hardware u should see directly after boot after power-up..... in there one can set power management features too......ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface). Known to be troublesource at times.

duanra, the emphasis on 'somebody else' .... few have reported problems with true hibernation / resume. I referred to the German forum and it said 'rare' observation there too. If u post here the exact hardware/software spec/versions/SPs, Didactylos can combine the problem findings and carry it to BOINC developers.

The link below is truly the only hibernation related post lodged on the official BOINC forum. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_text_sear...rnation&bodies=Search

It makes mention of power saving features.

The German forum i was quoting from is not WCG related, so it's neither / nor for sure.....try killing the ACPI, since u list it.....pentium M also rang a bell and yes "Other power saving methods include dynamically variable clock frequency and core voltage, allowing the Pentium M to throttle clock speed when the system is idle in order to conserve energy."