Serious error

[kmarriott]

Hi, newbie here. I have just installed the latest version on a Intel P4 2.8 pc with 1gb or ram, running windows XP Pro (sp2) and with an external KWorld 300u freeview adapter.

Everything works pretty good (although had severe problems getting system to pick up all channels for my region) except: I am using a program called poweroff to force the pc to shut down after a recording. Instead of shuting down the pc crashes and reboots then has a 'windows encountered a serious error' warning.

Poweroff works fine without GBPvr running, and works fine on a different pc with different capture software.

Can I ask why GBPvr hasn't got an option of what to do after a recording? i.e shut down, standby.

[McBainUK]

Look into "Windows power management". It's built into WinXP and you can (like I do) set it to go into standby after X mins.

[martint123]

Can I ask why GBPvr hasn't got an option of what to do after a recording? i.e shut down, standby.

Possibly because it can be serving recorded or live TV to client PCs or media extenders. This is why operating system shutdowns are the preferred method.

[kmarriott]

Cheers for the replies. Do you set system to standby for eg 10 minutes and it will do standby once GBPvr stops recording? Or if you set it for eg 2.5 hours would it go into standby 2.5 hours after coming out of standby to record.

[gEd]

you set it so that after x mins of "idle" time, XP puts the pc into standby.
I set mine for 20mins so 20mins after the recording finishes, it goes to sleep.
I did occasionally have problems (with XP) whereby it would go to sleep even when I was using my laptop to watch a recording that was located on the gbpvr server.

Vista has more advanced power management that takes account of this.


oh and welcome btw!!