More sleep problems.....

[doc]

I finally managed to get the PC to sleep using S3. Until now S1 was working, but somehow I've got it to go into S3.

It wakes up and records my TV which is great.

wait for it.... (there's always a but)

but......

I've set it to go to sleep after 10 minutes when I'm away.
Checking the event logs, last night from 1800 to 1849 it woke every 6 minutes. After that it changed to every 12 minutes until 2016.

It then woke up at 20:57 in order to record TV as expected, and powered down at midnight as expected.

It woke at 3am for the one and only scheduled task (EPG update), and then at 5.15, 7.45, 7:57 and every 12 minutes upto now, which is 9am. Theres nothing to record until tonight at 1900.

I've changed it from dhcp to a static IP. Windows update and java updates are all turned off.

Also, it will WOL from S1 but not S3.

Fortunately I have another PC with the same mobo/processor, so over christmas I can test this without sage on it, to give me an idea if its sage waking it or something else.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing it to wake at these odd times? and is there a setting somewhere where you can get it to log why its waking?

[Djc208]

I'm not very familiar with the different sleep states but are you sure the log is correct? If sleep is set for a ten minute interval how does the computer wake every six minutes, or do you mean there's a 16 minute interval between wake events?

Do you have some type of commercial skipping software running? The directory monitor app could be waking the system to check for new recordings. I think comskipmonitor defaults to every 10 minutes.

[doc]

Originally Posted by Djc208

I'm not very familiar with the different sleep states but are you sure the log is correct? If sleep is set for a ten minute interval how does the computer wake every six minutes, or do you mean there's a 16 minute interval between wake events?

Do you have some type of commercial skipping software running? The directory monitor app could be waking the system to check for new recordings. I think comskipmonitor defaults to every 10 minutes.

The system standby is set to 10 minutes. I have no idea why it woke/slept after 6. There's no comskip, dirmon or anything like that on it. I used to have dirmon and show analyser installed but removed it along time ago.

I can't check any more settings as its sleeping at the moment and I'm away at work all week.

I have a script that I wrote and installed as a service on my work pc that checks every 2 minutes to see if it can access the webserver, and if it can it pops a message up and plays a wav file. Then when it goes down, it plays a different wav file. The work pc is powered off when I go home, and I have it on my laptop which is on from 6pm to 10pm every weekday night. This script definately doesn't wake it up.

My plan at the moment is to get the spare pc tested and working with a fresh xp build on it, and once proven ok, I'll move the tuners over and reinstall Sage.

[Steve52]

Do you have wireless keyboard and mouse? These can cause the computer to wake up from sleep mode as they send out a signal at regular intervals.

[doc]

It currently has a usb kb and mouse that I put in while testing.

It hasn't woken up all day, maybe I spoke too soon...

It should come on later tonight for more recording, I'll check its event logs when it does and see if there's anything of interest in them.

[Ryokurin]

You said you were using WOL, is it set for Magic Packet? When I had similar I figured out it was because something on the network sent out a poll which was enough to wake the machine up. After I set it to only accept magic packet requests sleep worked like it should.

[doc]

Yes, its set to magic packet.

When set to S1, I could remotely connect to my router and using a modified firmware (Netgear DG834G) I could use a WOL command to wake it up. Using S3 the WOL command wouldn't wake it up.

The pc's been off for most of the day now so something wierd is going on.

Its handy having christmas coming up as I'll be home for a week to keep an eye on it.

It seemed to work better when set to S1 so I may change it back to it rather than try and use S3.

I was only trying to put it to sleep to reduce my bills as I'm a skin-flint. The more I save on electricity, the more I can spend on holiday