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• Guide to Troubleshooting Standby on your HTPC

  Proper standby support is an essential part of the HTPC experience, something that can help transform the “PC” experience into one much closer to “CE”. While it’s not great when the HTPC in the living room wakes up for “no reason”, when the one in the... Posted Nov 23 2009, 09:58 AM by Mike Garcen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: power settings, sleep, S3, standby, hibernate, S1, S5

• Guide: Keeping your HTPC Awake

  Yesterday when we discussed how to make your HTPC use S3 standby I pointed out that my preference is use fairly aggressive idle timers on my client and server PCs, the downside to this approach is that it can cause some undesirable side effects. Today's... Posted Aug 19 2009, 12:55 AM by Mike Garcen with | with no comments Filed under: power settings, sleep, S3, standby, hibernate, S1, S5

• Guide: Configuring Standby on your HTPC

  My main HTPC uses around 130 watts at idle, 7 watts in standby (S3), and 4 in hibernate (S4) so the case for having it take a nap whenever it can is quite clear. There was a time when getting S3 standby working properly was a black art involving careful... Posted Aug 18 2009, 11:24 AM by Mike Garcen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: power settings, sleep, S3, standby, hibernate