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I have been at a conference this week, and so have been placing my laptop on standby rather than shutting down each time.  I also have 2 clients with incompatible VPN software.  The software is so incompatible that they cannot be installed on the same OS and actually work.

So, I needed to get to the other client's VPN, so I put the laptop on standby, swapped the disks, powered up the laptop, and boom, a Blue Screen.  I presumed that no memory of being on standby was anywhere but the hard disk.  Apparently the hardware is aware that it was on standby (which makes sense in retrospect).

Enjoy.