No Sound after powersave wakeup

[Beldak]

Thought this was just a fluke, but its happening everytime.

If I put Sage on standby, my computer goes to sleep after 30 minutes. i.e everything powers off entirely. Sage has the ability to wake the computer up to record the shows and it seems to do just fine.

However, if I wake the computer up, I have no sound playback. I end up having to reboot the computer, then I have sound just fine. Also, shows that record during that time *do* have sound recorded with them - I just can't hear it until I've rebooted.

I did a number of searches on the forum but am coming up empty.

I believe the soundcard is a SB Live 5.1 - however I'm just using the analog stereo out to a stereo receiver.

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.

[amac]

I haven't encountered that problem but could you elaborate a little more on your issue?
1. Is your power management set to go into standby (S3) or hibernate? You might try using one over the other as drivers can behave differently.
2. Have you tried simply exiting and restarting Sage rather than doing a full reboot?
3. When your computer comes back on, do you have sound playback capability in any other software?

[Beldak]

1. Is your power management set to go into standby (S3) or hibernate? You might try using one over the other as drivers can behave differently.

S3 - haven't tried hibernate.

2. Have you tried simply exiting and restarting Sage rather than doing a full reboot?

Yes, have to reboot to get sound back.

3. When your computer comes back on, do you have sound playback capability in any other software?

My recollection says no, it affects everything - but I can confirm tonight when I get home.

[amac]

Originally Posted by Beldak

1. Is your power management set to go into standby (S3) or hibernate? You might try using one over the other as drivers can behave differently.

S3 - haven't tried hibernate.

2. Have you tried simply exiting and restarting Sage rather than doing a full reboot?

Yes, have to reboot to get sound back.

3. When your computer comes back on, do you have sound playback capability in any other software?

My recollection says no, it affects everything - but I can confirm tonight when I get home.

So based on your responses (pending your confirmation of #3), it seems more systemic than a problem with Sage.

Things to try (in order)
1. Update soundcard drivers.
2. Try enabling Hibernate under the Window Control Panel Power Management. Some PC's (and software) work better with one over the other. Hibernate is supposed to work with all PC's but I had one PC that needed a bios upgrade to resume correctly: see option 3 below). Note: unlike Standby, hibernate will use the same disk space as the size of your RAM. But that shouldn't be a big issue since if you're recording video, you must have lots of disk space.
3. Update motherboard bios.

Of course, if you check and find that you can play sound in other software packages other than Sage, then get ready to learn lots more about Sage settings/properties. Other users will have to pipe in to help with those.

[Beldak]

The updated sound drivers did the trick!

Thought I already had the new drivers, but looks like I missed the audio ones.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.