[slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread parrydave44
I've just switched to a new Vista PC and installed SC7. I'm having a problem with wake-on-lan. I can get the SB3 to bring PC out of sleep mode, but it doesn't stay awake. Keeps going back to sleep after the sleep period set in Vista. Previous PC (Vista) with 6.54 worked fine. I have wake on m

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread PSSO
parrydave44;270051 Wrote: > Any suggestions how to get SC7 to override the Vista sleep schedule? > > Thanks Is the Plugin "Windows: Prevent System Standby While Playing" enabled ? -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile: http://foru

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread parrydave44
Yep. Prevent Sleep plugin is enabled. I disabled and re-enabled which seems to have changed things. When I use windows then stop, PC seems to sleep after x mins as set. If I wake it by pressing power on SB3 remote it wakes ok. Goes back to sleep after a few mins. Fine. If I play some music it

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread PSSO
Does SC7 run as service (as 6.5.4 did) or under your account -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11678 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43546 __

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread parrydave44
I think i cracked it. When it doesn't go to sleep, there is lots of heavy disk activity (for 10's of minutes). I've found a power setting that alters "searching and indexing" and now it switches off within a few mins. Maybe because I just moved 200GB of music files onto this drive. i guess

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

2008-02-16 Thread PSSO
Great! - For performance reasons, you should consider disabling indexing - Properties on a drive and disable "Index this drive for faster searching" -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use