Re: Yet another standby question
- From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:28:33 -0400
It would use the same functionality that Task Scheduler uses to wake the machine to run a task when the machine is in "sleep" mode. Standby is not completely shutdown.
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"Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23fEZ3sC0FHA.3180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I would be seriously impressed if Media Center managed to wake from standby
> to download the guide. I'm still not sure how it manages to wake from
> standby to do a recording...
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> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
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> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
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>> 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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>
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