Hi,

am upgrading my gaming/mce machine and wanted to know about S3 standby.

When I built my current mce - the mb had S3 standby, but some newer boards have STR - sleep to ram and others state nothing at all.

Should the mb I pick have some sort of S3/str or do they all support this?

Don't want to by a mb and find out I can't sleep it thru mce afterwards

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku...ed#ProductTabs

it just has Wake on LAN (WOL), wake on ring (WOR)

thx

K

s3 = STR

Thx tikker,

but do all mb's have it or dot hey need to state it in their details.

like the mb I linked to - does this support s3/str ??

K

edit

the board supports - WfM 2.0,DMI 2.0,WOL by PME,WOR by PME,WOR by PME
but not sure if any of these are similiar to S3 or STR ???

Any modern motherboard should support S3.  The Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP definitely does though I've read some complaints on not entering or resuming from sleep but on the most part when users post about sleep issues it is device driver issues at fault, not the BIOS.  You should still specifically configure S3 over S1 in your BIOS, this is typically found under Power Management ==> ACPI Suspend Type.  If you will be using XP, XP does not install the S3 drivers if it is not enabled so try to ensure this is setup prior to installing your OS.

btw, is this a HTPC dedicated system?  If so, there are cheaper "better" motherboards available.

Edit: Nevermind, I reread your post and saw that it is a gaming machine as well.

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Thx Mikinho,

I used a prev mb with s3 but didn't work great.

So installed and used MST - it forces the mb into S3 - got it from the AZ mce site.

Thanks again.

K.

MST is a godsend

Can you use the power button on the MCE remote to go to S1/S3 or S4 modes? does MST simplify that configuration?

Also can MCE automatically come out of a sleep state to record a show?

Thanks.