installed hardware while PC was in sleep mode.

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just a random fun story. I was replacing a dvd burner with a new one. Hadn't touched the machine all day while I was at work. I sit down, pop off the side and pull the old drive. Plug the new one in. Run the cable where it needs to go and close everything up.

I press power and a few seconds later I am the login screen. Well crap. the machine was shut off, it was in sleep mode. I normally shut it off before bed but my wife aparently just put it in sleep mode.

Vista comes up after logging in and says found new stuff and the computer went on going...

It's a good thing I was only replacing a dvd drive and not something like ram.
 
Ha I did this once with my brothers laptop's hdd.
I was scared to death I fried something. I got his data off, put it back in and everything booted fine.
 
Windows vista by default has a kind of hybrid sleep mode... It will go to "sleep" but it will also copy ram to the HDD (just like hibernate in XP), so if you leave the machine plugged in it will just come out of suspend mode so you can get going more quickly but if you remove power it will take a bit longer and you may see the resuming windows screen but it will be right where you left it.

If you didn't unplug the PC, then probably it was in suspend mode and there was still power going to Ram and probably a few other components, personally my PC shuts off pretty much everything including all fans, HDDs, optical drives etc. so it would be hard to notice other than the flashing light on the front of the case.

Changing out the optical drive, especially with SATA isn't that huge of a deal, it's not necessarily recommended with some consumer hardware but there is some hot swap ability built into the standard, compared to the old IDE days.

I have also heard some people being successful in hot swapping expansion cards too, but again, many people have let out the magic smoke. Lesson learned I suppose. :)
 
I never use sleep mode, but I can see how you would do that. If I so use sleep mode, everything on my PC shuts off, all fans and lights. Can't tell its still on at at all.

OTOH, whenever I do any work on the inside of my rig I ALWAYS unplug it from the wall.
 
I like to leave my computer plugged in, throw on my flanel suit...and scoot around the carpet in some wool socks before I open my case!
 
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Other than that last post from MightyDiomed cracked me up.
 
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