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Did you actually try it, or are you just going by what it says?  I have a Dell slim PC in my youngest son’s room, and I needed to put a low profile card in it.  I bought a 4550 card and put it in, and it’s working fine.  I can’t remember what the power requirement was, but I know it’s more than what is in the Dell.  If I was going to put a card in it, I didn’t have much choice.  Most all cards, if not all, require more power than is in the Dell.  And I can’t find any power supplies of this type to upgrade the power supply.

[htpc_user]

Did you actually try it, or are you just going by what it says?  I have a Dell slim PC in my youngest son’s room, and I needed to put a low profile card in it.  I bought a 4550 card and put it in, and it’s working fine.  I can’t remember what the power requirement was, but I know it’s more than what is in the Dell.  If I was going to put a card in it, I didn’t have much choice.  Most all cards, if not all, require more power than is in the Dell.  And I can’t find any power supplies of this type to upgrade the power supply.

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ruwackd, it’s funny that you mention the Soap Opera Effect.  I hadn’t heard that before but that’s exactly how I started to explain it. In fact, that’s what I told my wife. I will try turning off the motion plus tonight to see how I like it.

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ruwackd, it’s funny that you mention the Soap Opera Effect.  I hadn’t heard that before but that’s exactly how I started to explain it. In fact, that’s what I told my wife. I will try turning off the motion plus tonight to see how I like it.

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[quote=”babgvant”]
Probably a disrespectful driver.  Run powercfg /lastwake to figure out which one.
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On my son’s PC I did the powercfg/lastwake according to the instructions on here, but it didn’t tell me anything.  It didn’t say what woke it up like the guide showed.  The problem with his is it will go to sleep for hours, but will wake up on its own.  I was using an EVGA 775 motherboard.  I just figured it was “one of those things”.  The other month I bought a Gigabyte AM3 board and gave it to him.  That one does the same thing.  Last Saturday I set up the EVGA again for myself as an extra PC.  I tried out the sleep and and it stayed asleep through the night.  The difference between the setup now vs. when it was in his system is his had an 8800GS, ATI tuner, Microsoft IR receiver, and wireless keyboard/mouse.  His Gigabyte has all of those parts now.  It has to be one of those things.

My HTPC only has an “Auto” S3 setting.  When putting it to sleep it sounds like it does something, but the fans still spin.  When I bring it out of the sleep setting, apparently something happens with the tuner because it will not record.

[htpc_user]

[quote=”babgvant”]
Probably a disrespectful driver.  Run powercfg /lastwake to figure out which one.
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On my son’s PC I did the powercfg/lastwake according to the instructions on here, but it didn’t tell me anything.  It didn’t say what woke it up like the guide showed.  The problem with his is it will go to sleep for hours, but will wake up on its own.  I was using an EVGA 775 motherboard.  I just figured it was “one of those things”.  The other month I bought a Gigabyte AM3 board and gave it to him.  That one does the same thing.  Last Saturday I set up the EVGA again for myself as an extra PC.  I tried out the sleep and and it stayed asleep through the night.  The difference between the setup now vs. when it was in his system is his had an 8800GS, ATI tuner, Microsoft IR receiver, and wireless keyboard/mouse.  His Gigabyte has all of those parts now.  It has to be one of those things.

My HTPC only has an “Auto” S3 setting.  When putting it to sleep it sounds like it does something, but the fans still spin.  When I bring it out of the sleep setting, apparently something happens with the tuner because it will not record.

[htpc_user]

I tried to set up WOL on my server according to some instructions on here (I believe).  But every time that I would put it to sleep it would immediately wake back up.

[htpc_user]

I tried to set up WOL on my server according to some instructions on here (I believe).  But every time that I would put it to sleep it would immediately wake back up.

[htpc_user]

Are you only selling them together?

[htpc_user]

Are you only selling them together?

[htpc_user]

I have 2 PC’s that run 24/7…my server and my HTPC.  I wish that my HTPC would correctly do S3, but it doesn’t.  But as far as my power bill, before I had both running 24/7 and now that I do, I’ll bet there’s not $10 difference between the 2.  My power bill fluctuates from month to month, and it has much more to do with how hot or how cold it stays outside causing my air or heat to run.  That is what causes my power bill to stay in the $250/month range.

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I have 2 PC’s that run 24/7…my server and my HTPC.  I wish that my HTPC would correctly do S3, but it doesn’t.  But as far as my power bill, before I had both running 24/7 and now that I do, I’ll bet there’s not $10 difference between the 2.  My power bill fluctuates from month to month, and it has much more to do with how hot or how cold it stays outside causing my air or heat to run.  That is what causes my power bill to stay in the $250/month range.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
if u want the manual way, you just go to http://www.dvdxml.com and download the xml file for your movie, put taht in the movie root folder, and voila. MCE will pull the info
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That’s what I do.  To me, it’s the easiest way.

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[quote=”shadymg”]
if u want the manual way, you just go to http://www.dvdxml.com and download the xml file for your movie, put taht in the movie root folder, and voila. MCE will pull the info
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That’s what I do.  To me, it’s the easiest way.

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[quote=”captain_video”]
Is there a way to get mkv files to play back on a media extender?  I’ve got a lot of shows in mkv format but it seems to be hit or miss getting them to play with both audio and video on an extender, if at all.  I’ve had no problems getting them to play in Media Center on the main PC.  I’ve got the Shark007 codec pack installed with Gabest’s media splitter as opposed to Haali per the recommended setup at the AVS Forums.

The latest version of DivX Plus will supposedly allow mkv files to play on an extender but so far it doesn’t seem to be doing much for me.  Could there be a conflict between the Gabest splitter and DivX that’s preventing DivX Plus from working?  I’m not sure if I should be changing the settings in the Shark007 setup utility.
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The confilct that you mention could very well be what’s happening.  When I installed the RC of 7 I installed several different programs and it totally screwed my system up.  That’s why I chose to install only DivX this time around.

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