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I am running Dharma 10.1. My problem is that when XBMC is idle for a long time, I cannot get the screen to resume. I have all sleep, hibernate, and screen settings in Windows turned off. I also have XBMC's monitor not set to turn off as well. If I leave Windows on without XBMC running everything works fine. I can leave the pc idle for days and when I turn on my receiver the screen resumes. This only occurs when XBMC is running. The only way I can get the screen to resume is to restart the computer. It seems as if XBMC somehow kills the HDMI connection and does not re-establish it. My receiver does not get a signal from the pc. The pc itself is still on because I can navigate to it from another pc and access its share folders.
Any ideas?
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I'm having the sleep issue too. Once XBMC goes to sleep it never wakes up. No remote access no pings nothing. I don't see anything of interest in the logs. I also have windows 7 ultimate with the Zotac nVidia 430. I don't have the issue unless I use XBMC.
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I got the same problem on Vista. I can shutdown XBMC doing the following:
1. CTRL + SHIFT + ESC (start taskmanager)
2. CTRL + ALT + DEL (bring up user screen)
3. ESC (exit user screen)
Then i can see the taskmanager en manouver my way to end XBMC.
Very annoying.
Guess I'll try to disable sleep in the settings of XBMC.
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UPDATE...I did as Luma suggested and it seems that my issue is resolved. Luckily for me it does not seem that using true full screen or a full screen window has any affect on the image (at least to me).
Thank you Luma!
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Having the same issue and thought it was a problem with my Denon 1909 AMP at first and was investigating issues with it losing HDCP connection to the TV. Had not traced it to having XBMC running too long, but it's possible that's what happened if my stop script failed to stop XBMC when I had previously turned everything off via the remote.
I'm running a nvidia GT 210 fanless but I don't think its overheating as restarting the PC makes everything work fine again, I have all the sleep / screensaver options of Windows/XBMC disabled and for me killing the xbmc.exe process via RDP when the issue happens does not resolve anything, the only thing I can do is restart the PC.
Really been tearing my hair out with this issue as its very intermittent and while I can quickly resolve it with a restart the wife has no chance.