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<blockquote data-quote="Mew" data-source="post: 954242" data-attributes="member: 29012">Paul&nbsp;I let the HTPC hibernate whenever I am not using it, so it spends most of the time in hibernate (all that is visibly on is the VFD display on the front which I have set to say, &quot;MediaPortal Home Theatre PC&quot; when the PC is not awake). I normally use a Humax Foxsat box to watch live TV. MediaPortal is used for making and watching recordings and watching films (and also comes on daily to update the EPG). It obviously does usually get switched on during the week at some point for me to <s>fiddle with it</s> make important updates. I usually let it hibernate by leaving it on the main screen. After 5 minutes of inactivity it then hibernates. I am not sure if it is still the case, but I think pressing the power button on the remote used to put it to sleep (in Windows XP) rather than hibernate, which made the power LED flash (which I found annoying).&nbsp;The hardware is fairly modern (Intel Ivybridge Core i5 running Windows 8 Pro) and my second incarnation. The first I build in 2007 and was a new Intel Core 2 Duo. I have personally found hibernate to be more reliable in newer versions of Windows. In 2005 I used XP, but when I switched to Vista (and then Windows 7 and Windows 8)hibernate seemed more reliable.&nbsp;Mew</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mew, post: 954242, member: 29012"] Paul I let the HTPC hibernate whenever I am not using it, so it spends most of the time in hibernate (all that is visibly on is the VFD display on the front which I have set to say, "MediaPortal Home Theatre PC" when the PC is not awake). I normally use a Humax Foxsat box to watch live TV. MediaPortal is used for making and watching recordings and watching films (and also comes on daily to update the EPG). It obviously does usually get switched on during the week at some point for me to [S]fiddle with it[/S] make important updates. I usually let it hibernate by leaving it on the main screen. After 5 minutes of inactivity it then hibernates. I am not sure if it is still the case, but I think pressing the power button on the remote used to put it to sleep (in Windows XP) rather than hibernate, which made the power LED flash (which I found annoying). The hardware is fairly modern (Intel Ivybridge Core i5 running Windows 8 Pro) and my second incarnation. The first I build in 2007 and was a new Intel Core 2 Duo. I have personally found hibernate to be more reliable in newer versions of Windows. In 2005 I used XP, but when I switched to Vista (and then Windows 7 and Windows 8)hibernate seemed more reliable. Mew [/QUOTE]

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