Hi.
I have a problem with one of my PC's running MYTV. It keeps kicking the pc out of sleep mode about 3.25am every morning.
What i am running:-
PC 1 - Server
Win 7 x64 - This is running MYMovies as the DB and MYTV added. This is my main PC were all the shows reside.
PC 2 - HTPC
Win 7 x86 - This is just a slave unit that attached to the above DB on the server to run MY TV and MY MOVIES.
Both PC's are running 9135 build
This is the error i get in the event log. It appears twice and always at about the same time 3.25am.
Once the computer wakes from this event it will not go back to sleep until I force it.
If anyone can help me with this i would be very great full.
Well, myTV won't be the thing that's waking your PC, so if we look elsewhere we should be able to at least negate the error.
Given you're using Win7, start a command prompt and run
powercfg -lastwake
That should tell you what woke the PC up at 3am (provided that's the last time it woke).
I tried that but it gives me no info.
Looking in the Event log i can see a event after the MYTV one saying that the computer woke from sleep but it says the the device that woke if from sleep is :UNKNOWN.
I know there have been a few reports of this happening at another forum I'm a member of. myTV isn't designed to wake your PC for anything, it is designed to do a rescan when it detects a poweron event though (and I'm guessing by the error that it's the client PC that's waking up and it can't connect to the server).
Anyway, I'd look at things like the optimization settings in mediacentre, also the download window for the guide (set it to some time during the day).
The Microsoft guy who heads the guide team for Mediacentre said this about the guide update
"2. periodic scanning - by default at 2am (or is it 3am?). It will tune to all the channels and try and update its EPG data. If tuner is in use, it will back off. It will tune in the most recently used to least recently used order of the channels - this is because with 2000 odd channels on some DVB-S setups, there isnt sufficient time to tune to all channels. So there's some time out (3 hours I think) that after it will stop the periodic scan. For periodic scanning you can change the time that kicks off on by setting a download window of time in tasks->settings->general->automatic download options. This page allows you to set a download window (min 6 hours) that mcupdate will schedule downloads within. Also it will do the periodic scan within this window. The idea is to allow the user to specify a time that's ok for the machine to wake up from sleep."
I'd then make sure that the "Allow device to wake from sleep" is disabled on the NIC (although you can leave the Wake On Magic Packet option checked if you want).
I am going to try and turn off the EPG data request by Microsoft.
I will see how that goes and let you know.
Cheers
Let me know what you find out... I had a similiar problem on my PC downstairs so what I ended up doing was making the power button put the machine into hibernate, but I would rather sleep for the faster response time.
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OK
A small update. It happend again last night even though the SLEEP option was turned off on the NIC and i had disabled the GUIDE retrevial.
This time however the event log told me what woke the PC here is the log.
The system has resumed from sleep.Sleep Time: 2010-02-04T11:34:32.464080900ZWake Time: 2010-02-04T17:47:35.887022100ZWake Source: Device -PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
This time it was 3.47am.
Does this help.
I am gonna try google today.
Sorry just spotted that my NIC had the tick box against the wake option.
I updated the drivers yesterday, it must have set it back to default.
Will have to test again tonight.
Hi again.
Just a quick update.
Completely did a reload of the operating system and still no go. Experienced the same problems.
Installed MST Stand by tool on the system to fix the sleep problem and poof all is fixed. Has been sleeping correctly for a week now.
Thanks for the help.
