[jmoe816]

Will try my best to explain the issue...

My HTPC is setup with XBMC. Everything works fine except the sleep pattern. I use MCE Standby tool and think I have it setup correctly. Its very close to the reccomended settings on the vendors website.I have it set to S3. My BIOS is set to S3 as well. I have a scheduled task that shuts the PC down every night at 1am. The BIOS is set to power the PC up everyday at 4pm. The shutdown/startup works fine. I would expect the PC to startup at 4, then go into sleep mode after 15 minutes of inactivity. The problem is that sometimes, after 4pm, I notice the PC is not sleeping. It will be running. When I try to power it up with my MCE remote, the red light on the remote reciever just stays solid red and the PC does not respond...I get a NO SIGNAL message on my TV. I have to shutdown, reboot at that point.

ANy ideas? Thanks.

[jmoe816]

I should also note that XBMC launches automatically uppon startup or waking. I wonder if it is getting hung? I see that some people use EventGhost to actually shutdown XBMC before putting the PC into sleep. I do not do this currently. I have an action setup on my Logitech remote that pretty much just sends the Power command to the PC, which puts it directly into sleep when I'm done with it. I think I may try sending a different command when I power off the system so that EventGhost can gracefully shutdown XBMC, then put the PC to sleep.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

[live4ever]

Did you try disabling MCE Standby Tool and just use the Windows OS for sleep? I had a setup through the built-in Task Scheduler.

What motherboard and are the chipset drivers up to date?

[jmoe816]

I think I have got this issue resolved. I took your advice and removed MCE standby tool and am using Windows sleep settings. Also, when I use my Logitech Harmony to shutdown, instead of sending the power command to the HTPC, it sends a special character, which EventGhost recognizes and triggers a mcro that Quits XBMC then puts the PC to sleep. Thanks!