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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1279911" data-attributes="member: 141969">It is not immediately obvious what the explanation is. Here are a couple of possibilities that may explain what you have observed:(1) Did you unplug the Medion RF receiver? A PC can go to sleep only if all devices installed or connected to it are defined in their respective config files as being capable of sleep. If a device lacks drivers, Windows will not know whether that device can sleep correctly, so Windows will refuse to sleep. (2) There is a subtlety relating to the sleep timer. If you specify a sleep time of (say) 15 minutes, the system will sleep after 15 minutes of user inactivity (assuming not recording). Now consider these two cases:(a) A recording for a 30-minute programme starts one minute before you press the SLEEP button on the remote control (or click "Sleep" in the "Start" button power menu). The system transitions to "away mode", which means that the recording continues, but the screen is blanked (no video output). The recording finishes after 30 minutes, but there has been no user activity for 29 minutes. Now 29 minutes exceeds 15 minutes, so the system sleeps immediately the recording stops. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up    (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />(b) A recording finishes one minute after you press the SLEEP button on the remote (or click "Sleep" on...). Now although the system is not doing anything that prevents sleep (not recording), there has not been 15 minutes since the last user activity. So the system will continue running in away mode for 14 minutes, and then it will sleep (after 15 minutes of user inactivity). So subjectively it will seem that the system is refusing to sleep, but all that has happened is that 15-minutes of user inactivity has not yet passed.Clearly, if you specified a 30-minute sleep time, the system may seem to run for up to 30 minutes before it sleeps. You can manually sleep the system, and if it is not recording it will sleep immediately. But if it is recording, the effect described above will apply.You might think that specifying a very short sleep time would avoid this. Well, maybe. If you specified a sleep time of (say) one minute, the system would appear to sleep within one minute of a recording finishing, whatever the circumstances (you would not notice the effect described above). But with a one-minute sleep time you run the risk of the system sleeping when you don't want it to (e.g when live TV or video playback is paused and you have left the room to make a cup of coffee).In MP1 there is a config setting in the "Startup and Resume Settings" section of "MP Config" that will prevent sleep if MP is not on the "Home" panel. However, I don't know whether MP2 has an equivalent setting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />. [USER=128337]@joecrow[/USER] may know. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite26" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" />Sorry about that; I had forgotten that I use "PowerScheduler" in "Expert" mode.Yes, that is correct. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up    (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

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