windows xp Problems with Hibernation and scheduled wake-up

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Hello everyone,

 

I've already posten my problem on other forums - on the most rescent Elizabeth23 (I think she is also active in here) suggested me to ask my question in here. So I think I will just copy the post i previously created:

 

Since I've built my PC in 2009, I've been messing around with 2 problems related to hibernation and scheduled wake-ups.Maybe at first I have to describe how I use these features.I usually use MyTheatre in the evening to watch TV and turn my pc off into hibernation using its sleep timer function. In the moning then it automatically wakes up, starts mytheatre (to keep my screen turned on, because the screen turning off means the speakers

turning off because of my master-slave-powerboard, but also to watch some news), later starts winamp to playback some radio on my second speakers in the bathroom.This perfectly worked for my older nearly similar configured pc but SOMETIMES (every third or 10th time) doesn't work on my "new" one (the one from 2009).And these are the 2 problems occuring:1. Power-Off abortion: Sometimes (very seldom) my pc doesn't power off after it finished the write-ram-to-disk-process (I didn't manage to watch its hibernation process yet, it's just what I guess, I just can see the result). The screen goes

off, the blink-on-kbd-hit-led of my wireless beyboard reacts like I got a cpu freeze and the powersupply and its fans keep running (I didn't take a look at the other fans yet, but I think they are still running). In this state, the reset button got no effect,

I just can press the power button for 5 seconds to hard-power it off and start it again - usual boot, no wake-up from hibernation.This behaviour is very seldom. I didn't manage to "trigger" it for further analyzation. This means: Using MyTheatre to hibernate now, using start --> shut down --> hibernate, using the command including pwrprof.dll or using psshutdown.exe -h usually doesn't

end in this unwanted state. Also the sleeptimer of MyTheatre usually doesn't end like this - just sometimes when I don't watch it... :)2. Schedules task wakes up PC but won't get executed: This porblem occurs very often but randomly on my PC. The scheduled task waking up my PC is set to start MyTheatre. In ~50% it does start, in ~50% it doesn't.This is not SUCH a big problem for my alarm procedure, because I just can set a second task defenitly starting MyTheatre. But it is a problem for every scheduled recording. I would have to set a wake-up-timer approximately 5 minutes before every recording,

which is pretty annoying.Yes, I could write a script permanently scanning for scheduled tasks and setting the corresponding wake-up-tasks 5 minutes before. But besides this would be a work I don't completely know how to complete, I'd rather like to find out under which circumstances

my XP executes the tasks and under which it doesn't.Maybe these are some informations you need about my PC:- MotherBoard: GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H 790GB 5200MT/s AM2+ ATX- Powersupply: at first ATX Inter-Tech FP 750 Watt, later one form Xilence (so it doesn't be related to this).- OS: Windows XP Professional 32Bit SP3- RAM: Kingston HyperX DIMM 8 GB DDR2-800 Quad Kit (2,75GB + 256MB Gvaotte Ram Disk used by XP)- CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition

 

I hope someone can help me.

 

Best regards,

Rhino

 

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