MC Win7 Sleep Resume issue

[Dingarth]

My Win7 MCE HTPC has always had issues with resuming s3 sleep.

I did a complete format and installed an SSD as the OS drive (FAST ) but sometimes when resuming to sleep the screen stays black but sound works i.e. you can hear the TV channel but no picture. Put back to sleep and wake again and it works fine.

Anyone know how to fix this issue? Or what it is? I downloaded the latest video card driver as part of install and was still doing the same as before.

Cheers

[MatterHorn]

Originally Posted by Dingarth

My Win7 MCE HTPC has always had issues with resuming s3 sleep.

I did a complete format and installed an SSD as the OS drive (FAST ) but sometimes when resuming to sleep the screen stays black but sound works i.e. you can hear the TV channel but no picture. Put back to sleep and wake again and it works fine.

Anyone know how to fix this issue? Or what it is? I downloaded the latest video card driver as part of install and was still doing the same as before.

Cheers

What hardware are you running?

[DrClaw]

Correct - what video card / TV combo are you running?

I have a problem where my PC can boot up before my TV is on, so when using HDMI the video card misses the EDID data and doesn't recognise it properly. There's an app called HDMION that can reset the display after boot.

And you can also get the Media center Standby Tool which can address a whole bunch of standby related issues.

I've also had a bunch of issues with ATi video cards and HDMI audio, which i'm still working on.

Fun times

[Dingarth]

Its a:-

Samsung 40" LCD
E8400
Gigabyte Board.
Dual 2200 Hauppage Tuners
4g Ram
SSD OS Drive
2x 1TB Storage Drives
5450 ATI Card or 5670 not sure whats in there (off the top of my head - prob the 5670)
Creative Sound Card
Video by VGA cable of card to screen.

[DrClaw]

Originally Posted by Dingarth

5450 ATI Card or 5670 not sure whats in there (off the top of my head - prob the 5670)

I assume you're using the catalyst drivers then?

I find that on resume, the "auto-detect" stuffs up 50% of the time, and gives me a black screen or heaps of underscan. I get around this by disabling the ATi event responder process (ati2evxx.exe off the top of my head), so it will stop changing the video settings if you turn your TV on and off, or if it starts up in a different order etc.

Worth a shot anyways.

[Dingarth]

Originally Posted by DrClaw

I assume you're using the catalyst drivers then?

I find that on resume, the "auto-detect" stuffs up 50% of the time, and gives me a black screen or heaps of underscan. I get around this by disabling the ATi event responder process (ati2evxx.exe off the top of my head), so it will stop changing the video settings if you turn your TV on and off, or if it starts up in a different order etc.

Worth a shot anyways.

I'll have a look at this. When i think about it, i didnt have much trouble under vista but then i think i went to ATI from NVIDEA at the same time.

Thx