Hi,

My computer will go to sleep at any time with the remote control and will sleep after 20mins of inactivity if mediacenter is closed but if mediacenter is open, it will not sleep.  The photo slideshow is disabled and I don't have livetv (or any other media) playing).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Brian

Mine wakes up at random times. Sometimes it will stay in S3 for hours, sometimes, 30 mins.

I'm away for a while and when I come back notice the win7 box is awake, I turn on the TV and I see the photo slideshow going.

I already disabled Wake on LAN. Not sure what else could be waking up my win7 box while sleeping.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

-Josef

I betchya you havent set the "when sharing media" setting in the advanced power setting window to "allow sleep". Its all the way at the end of the pick list under Multimedia Settings.

When MCE is running, the computer thinks you are sharing media. The default setting is to not allow the computer to sleep.

jcuesico:

Mine wakes up at random times. Sometimes it will stay in S3 for hours, sometimes, 30 mins.

I'm away for a while and when I come back notice the win7 box is awake, I turn on the TV and I see the photo slideshow going.

I already disabled Wake on LAN. Not sure what else could be waking up my win7 box while sleeping.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

-Josef

You can use eventviewer to try and identify what is waking your machine up?

dmagerl:

I betchya you havent set the "when sharing media" setting in the advanced power setting window to "allow sleep". Its all the way at the end of the pick list under Multimedia Settings.

When MCE is running, the computer thinks you are sharing media. The default setting is to not allow the computer to sleep.

Thanks for the suggestion - I had this set already but overnight it seemed to have resolved itself and will sleep properly now. One thing I was wondering though - if an extender is accessing content stored on a NAS through the mediacenter, will this setting allow the mediacenter to sleep and interrupt the extender session?

Thanks

I can't find 'multimedia settings', can you give me a hint? Cheers

Hi,

take a look in the power options from control panel, choose to edit settings for your preferred plan, then scroll to the bottom of the list of options, and there is a multimedia option, click to expand and you should find the details being discussed.

Tony

You can check what woke your computer in Win7 by going to command prompt and enter this command:
POWERCFG lastwake

It will tell you what device woke it up.

As far as getting it to sleep, I have written a couple of batch files that show up in my Extras area that use a timer and DOS command to set the computer to sleep after timer expires.

If anyone is interested in copies of it, let me know and I might be able to post them.

When I want to set it to sleep, I go into extras and select the 30, 60 or 90 minute timer.

I also recently changed to Eventghost because I have a Firefly RF remote and the new driver allows me to wake from standby with it, but broke most of the other functionality. Once I got eventghost setup, I added in a multitap function that allows me to toggle between 30/60/90 minutes from one button and passes that time to a different batch file to set the timer to the specified length. Once expired, it sleeps the computer.
You can also cancel the timer with the same button.

Again, let me know if there is interest and I can post the Eventghost config file. If you have a Firefy just plug it in and go, if not, you can look at the function of the button and how to pass it to the batch file.

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