Ghostlobster wrote:Good to hear that you've got it to a usable state! Now, for the fine tuning. For sleep mode issues, make certain you are using s3 and not s1 power saving mode in your bios. Also, check the power options on your usb ir receiver in device manager and ensure that puppy is set to be able to wake up the system.
Video glitches are another issue completely. Generally you're looking at hours/days/weeks of tweaking with drivers and settings to hammer it out, but it'll be worth it, especially on the WAF front.
Question for ya...I'm considering doing a completely new build, moving to a small footprint, low power architecture. The Core i3 is looking more and more like the processor for these ends. How do you like it? Is it robust enough for all video formats? I'm probably going to go itx using a very small case and keep everything external, but I don't know yet...
Thanks
my problem is that my USB card goes dead AFTER it wakes up, and the ehome attached to it is dead as well. So it's something else I think. I'll check the sleep settings in the bios for sure now that you mention it.
The i3 is great. When just playing stadard HD videos through the standard media player, it works like a champ, smooth as butter.
I'm not sure if the glitch is in the playback is due to some other glitch inside the video or audio stream. I will continue to fine tune it as you said, but now that it's stable, I don't have to lose any more sleep over it (I was actually losing sleep over it because I'd be fiddling with it well pass my normal bedtime, and then I'd wake up early to fiddle with it some more!)
The only other issue I forgot to mention, if I turn off my receiver, and I wake up the system before I turn on my receiver, it defaults back to a low res. The receiver is the display device as seen by the computer. When the receiver comes online, it senses its a 1080p res device, and adjusts itself, but any program running at the time may not get readjusted properly. Icons on bottom right of my desktop get moved to the center as well. Not a big deal though, it doesn't seem to cause other harm otherwise.
