Computer no longer enters standby on it's own

[teookie]

My GPVR computer used to always enter standby after 1 hr of inactivity, and then turn back on when required to make recordings. Lately though, for roughly the past 3 weeks, it's just staying on all the time. At first I thought it was because I was recording the Olympics, but with that event over I now know that's not what's causing it.

The only thing I think I might have done to cause this problem is to start using a concurrent user hack to allow a laptop to remote into the computer w/o logging off the current user. The weird thing is that this hack was performed over a year ago; I used it a bunch at first and then left it alone for a good 11 months before using it again.

I've checked task manager for rogue processes, but don't see anything unusual (doesn't mean I know what half the stuff in there is). I just noticed that the computer isn't going into screen saver either, and I currently don't have PVRX2 running - so I don't think it is a GBPVR problem.

If anyone has some tips of things to check, I'm all ears!

Thanks in advance!

[teookie]

Wo. Just noticed it says "senior member" under my user name. Weird.

[martint123]

This occasionally happens to my system and I have never managed to find out what does it.
I gave up spending hours and days trying to find out and just restore an Acronis image of the windows drive and it is all OK for another 6 months or so.

(My Windows drive does not have applications or data on it, so a Windows restore is only a 5 minute job).

Sorry, that is no help, but I'll keep watching in the hope of an answer that sorts mine out as well

[stustunz]

it will be a java update or some crap like that

[teookie]

it will be a java update or some crap like that

That may be it. I tend to ignore those.

Will check and post back if I learn anything.

[gEd]

screensaver is enabled but it never kicks in:-

does screensaver preview work?
maybe power settings are disabled in control panel or bios - try disabling and reenabling
mouse keeps moving slightly (try unplugging it)
check windows event viewer.

[edit]
this is worth a read: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ight=sleep

[Snooze]

in xp what never let my pc sleep is control panel, system, net adapter, check box only allow power users...

[Deusxmachina]

Mine does this sometimes. A reboot always fixes it. Dunno what causes it. Maybe a java thing like mentioned.

[speising]

you ca try to check with the MCE Standby Tool, that shows if system/display are required by any program, idle timer values etc.

[teookie]

For anyone following this thread, I think I've decided on a OS reload to solve this problem. I just can't seem to find the source of the problem in the limited time I have available to look for it...