Re: Yet another standby question

Ideally, your router would be blocking Ping packets, so those wouldn't be waking up the computer. However, it could be the Wake-On-LAN setting in the BIOS that's causing it, since the NIC and the router will be talking to each other. I don't put my systems in standby, so I can't tell you what effect this would have on getting the Guide updates. Either the MCE machine will wake up to download them, or it will download the updated information as soon as you bring it out of standby.

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"Gaz" <Gaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C84EFEF3-0FDD-4E60-93FE-CAFF6F310984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've read all the posts dealing with standby, but my problem is a bit
> different than those already on the board.
>
> My computer restarts nearly immediately when I try to put it in standby.
> The computer will shut down for about 2 seconds, then immediately come back
> on. I haven't tried any of the other suggestions that have been listed for
> the other posts yet - I just wanted to get some opinions if this is a
> different issue or not.
>
> The comp is connected via ethernet to my wireless router. I have a feeling
> that it may be pings coming from the internet. My question on this - if I
> change the setting where the internet could wake up the comp, will this
> affect the update of the program guide?
>
> I don't want to leave my comp running all the time - besides the extra power
> it takes, my vid card tends to run a bit hot and I don't want to run the risk
> of frying it...
.

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