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Answer by Ken for Why was my system able to sleep without power?

It's hybrid sleep, a combination of hibernation and sleep. It saves memory to disk, and then enters sleep (the low power state). If power is maintained, when you turn the computer back on, it simply...

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Answer by Phoshi for Why was my system able to sleep without power?

Because starting with Vista, sleep got a little smarter. It now also writes everything to disk, meaning you can cut the power just fine. It's pretty neat, and has saved me a good few times.

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Why was my system able to sleep without power?

I'm using an AMD Phenom II desktop running Windows 7 that I custom built. I put the system to sleep (not hibernate) then I accidentally shut off the power supply that it was connected to as well, so...

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