kid-jensen:

Hi,

Firstly, I use MCE Standby Tool and think it's a great programme, but I have a problem with my MCE system that is only partially solved by MST..

My PC is a factory built Media PC (Advent DHE-1000), with a low profile case designed to fit in with a Home Cinema system. The fans switch off just fine in S3 standby mode.

My problem is that, when in Standby, the PC will startup on it's own, completely randomly. This happens 3 or 4 times an hour. Since installing MST, it now shuts down again (most times--not always), but I still have the problem with random startups.

Is there a check-box in MST that would fix this? 

I basically have the same problem, although I have noticed that now is turning on when my XBOX 360 is turned on.
Have you found any solutions?

Lubama,

It's both reassuring and depressing to hear that I'm not the only one.....

Unfortunately, I'm no further on, but I have discovered that if you disable ALL the devices that can wak up form Standby (in MST) it won't shut down at all. Comes up with an error message saying something is prerventing shutdown, and will sit there for all eternity waiting for an "OK" click. Of course, you can't see this window, because it's hidden under MCE....

I'm convinced it's software related. I've disabled all the Wake-up-on-LAN related stuff in the BIOS which I would have thought would fix the problem, but I can't see a solution so far.

I'll keep trying, unless a check box suddenly appears on MST saying "prevent random startups"....

Jensen,
I have been working on this issue for about 2 weeks, I, like you, have tried all possible settings in BIOS related to LAN, and also on the OS, Vista Ultimate, I have exchange about 10 e-mails with Intel, M/B maker. I ran across this program and I said, good, this might solve the problem, nothing.
I have 4 more PCs, all on Standby and on the same network, and this is the only one with the problem.
This is what is doing: Goes to Standby by OS setting, no problem with that, after few minutes turns on and off right away, now the case power light stays on and then at random turns on and off like a cycle, after that I can't turn on by remote control, only by power button.
What I noticed yesterday is, that every time I turned the XBox 360 on, at the point the 360 is looking for a Media Center PC, this machine starts doing this cycle, although when the 360 is turned off the cycle continues. I am getting to a point that I don't know what else I can try.
I explained all this so you can have a reference and compare the issue you have.

Luis

Luis,

You have my sympathies, but I don't think my situation is exactly the same, though just as irritating..

You said:
This is what it is doing: Goes to Standby by OS setting, no problem with that, after few minutes turns on and off right away, now the case power light stays on and then at random turns on and off like a cycle, after that I can't turn on by remote control, only by power button.

Mine does the same but takes 10 to 20 minutes between cycles.  I can always turn it on again (or Off) with the MCE Remote. Case light is on at all times except total shutdown.

.........every time I turned the XBox 360 on, at the point the 360 is looking for a Media Center PC, this machine starts doing this cycle, although when the 360 is turned off the cycle continues.

Can't help here I'm afraid, haven't got a 360.

I am getting to a point that I don't know what else I can try.

Me too!

A friend of mine had a PC which used to turn on two or three seconfs after he turned it off (even shutdown). He eventually traced it to the HDD. Every PC he put this HDD into, did the same. Eventually after about a year, he gave up and put it in a Network drive box and left it on all the time!

I've taken to completely shutting down my PC except when I need it to wake up to record something. It eases my Green concience this way, because it uses loads of electricity when it's on. I agree that we shouldn't have to work-around the problem....it should be fixable....

Hi Jensen,

I am doing the same, completely shut down, although I am not recording yet with this machine but eventually  I will like to, In just built this one to replace my big case HTPC witch still in use until I have this one working right.

I only hope that somebody find this thread and post a fix.

Good luck

I've been having two recurring problems with MST.  I'm running Vista home premium and MST 09094.  I use S3 standby only and have zero issues entering S3.

The first involves putting my PC to sleep while watching DVDs.  it sometimes puts the TV to sleep during live TV, but this is more rare and I do not have an example logfile right now. 

The second involves the screen going black immediately following resume from S3.  It is as though the monitor is being initialized / turned off several times.  in the logfile, I did notice this series of commands several times in a row.

PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0

PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1

 

Here is the log file from the time in question.  It went to sleep at least twice while watching a DVD movie ripped to the HD and also did the monitor on/off twice.  Thanks for any help.

 

Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:31.564 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for automatic task)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:31.565 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:32.136 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:32.137 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:32.137 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:37.556 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby() done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:37.810 - cSuspendInitiator - Suspend()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:39.775 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (7640ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:43.546 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:43.547 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:43.547 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:43.548 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:43.548 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:14:47.542 - User input detected (223511937)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:15:31.574 - AwakeState: AS_DESKTOP
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:16:22.559 - AwakeState: AS_MEDIACENTER
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:17:26.587 - SetContinuousThreadExecutionState(ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED | ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:17:48.584 - SetContinuousThreadExecutionState(0)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:17:48.585 - SetThreadExecutionState(ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED | ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.527 - 'Media Center is running and idle' idle period detected
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.528 - Entering Standby
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.528 - cSuspendInitiator - Resumed
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.628 - cSuspendInitiator - Sleep done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.628 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:48.835 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:52.339 - PBT_APMSUSPEND (Suspend from user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:32:52.350 - PBT_APMSUSPEND done (16ms)
                               ...
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:05.223 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for automatic task)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:05.224 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:05.880 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:05.880 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:05.881 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:08.892 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby() done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:08.892 - cSuspendInitiator - Suspend()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.308 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.327 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.338 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.345 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.346 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.347 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:14.685 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:33:20.579 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (14703ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:34:05.679 - AwakeState: AS_NON_USER
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.656 - Unattended-resume idle period detected
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.657 - Entering Standby
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.657 - cSuspendInitiator - Resumed
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.758 - cSuspendInitiator - Sleep done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.832 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:06.952 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:11.622 - PBT_APMSUSPEND (Suspend from user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:11.632 - PBT_APMSUSPEND done (0ms)
                               ...
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:23.825 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:23.826 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:23.847 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:25.506 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:25.507 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:25.508 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:25.691 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby() done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:25.691 - cSuspendInitiator - Suspend()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:32.008 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:32.008 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:32.009 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:32.011 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:40:38.590 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (14750ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:41:23.902 - AwakeState: AS_NON_USER
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:24.879 - Unattended-resume idle period detected
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:24.879 - Entering Standby
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:24.880 - cSuspendInitiator - Resumed
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:24.980 - cSuspendInitiator - Sleep done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:25.085 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:25.333 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:29.586 - PBT_APMSUSPEND (Suspend from user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:29.598 - PBT_APMSUSPEND done (16ms)
                               ...
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:41.619 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for automatic task)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:41.619 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:41.633 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:41.634 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:41.635 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:42.717 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:44.929 - cSuspendInitiator - EnterStandby() done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:44.929 - cSuspendInitiator - Suspend()
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:50.125 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:50.126 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:50.126 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:50.127 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:56.608 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (14984ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:47:59.543 - User input detected (225504593)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:16.873 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:19.636 - PBT_APMSUSPEND (Suspend from user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:19.647 - PBT_APMSUSPEND done (0ms)
                               ...
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:37.502 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for automatic task)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:37.509 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:37.955 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:37.956 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:37.956 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:47.798 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:48:54.583 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (16625ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:49:03.494 - User input detected (225568343)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:49:22.991 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:49:27.593 - PBT_APMSUSPEND (Suspend from user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:49:27.605 - PBT_APMSUSPEND done (15ms)
                               ...
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:06.329 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC (Resume for automatic task)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:06.330 - PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC done (0ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:12.146 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND (Start user interaction)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:12.364 - Resuming userinterface
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:12.364 - Waking monitor/TV
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.169 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.170 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.638 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.673 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.719 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.790 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.821 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.853 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 0
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:14.854 - PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE - MONITOR_POWER_ON: 1
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:21.815 - PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND done (14844ms)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:26.772 - User input detected (225651140)
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:50.159 - Starting frontend: MCE Standby Tool
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:50:50.175 - Initialisation done
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:51:07.097 - AwakeState: AS_DESKTOP
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:51:30.921 - FormClose
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:51:30.936 - MCE Standby Tool/frontend closed.
                              
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:51:31.020 - FormClose
Fri 17 Oct 2008 17:51:31.025 - MCE Standby Tool/frontend closed.

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I've been having problems using MST coming out of S3 sleep. I have been unable to get the PC to wake up. It is non-responsive to both the MCE remote and the keyboard and mouse. I have had to hard shutdown twice now.
Any advice?