New SSD S3 woes...

[milli260876]

Just installed my 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD and S3 sleep doesn't seem to want to work??
can anyone point me in the right direction?? turned screensaver off and hybrid sleep etc.. bios is all ok too.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[richard1980]

What do you mean it doesn't work? As in, what happens?

[milli260876]

i'm assuming it goes s1?? screen goes off but fans still spinning.. no flashing blue light as i used to have with my samsung spinpoint

[milli260876]

been looking into it says on some sites to turn speedstep off in bios...?
wife is hogging the tv tho so can't get on... wish i'd tried the remote access hack!!!

[milli260876]

worked this morning wtf?? anyway what is the concensus with s3 with an ssd?? required? would s1 do?? generally only doing it for my carbon footprint/wallet lol... can't use that much power with an ssd surely? mind u I av got 5 TV tuners!!!

[tony_park]

Hi Lee,

I have the vertex2 60Gb drive, and its working fine with S3 - only problem I have now, is the pc wakes up that fast, and goes into media center, that its not actually found the network shared drive where most of our recordings are held... have to use MST to slow down the startup of MC to compensate!

Tony

[milli260876]

Hi Tony
could you let me know what settings you have in power control please?

[dmagerl]

You still havent said what "doesnt work" means. Does it not go to sleep? Does it not wake up? Does it wake up immediately after putting it to sleep?

Open a command window and use the command powercfg.

powercfg -lastwake :tells you what last woke the computer. Do this if it keeps waking up unexpectedly.

powercfg -requests :tells you whats keeping it from going to sleep. Do this if its not going to sleep after a recording .

There is no reason an SSD should give you sleep issues. Mine is working fine.

[milli260876]

as stated above. it was going into what I assumed was s1 sleep as fans still running. going to look into it further this evening.

[StumpyBloke]

That sounds more like Away Mode to me (I think!! )

[milli260876]

it seems to be working ok atm... this being a fresh install i'm wondering if some updates may be to blame?? i guess time will tell!!!

[StumpyBloke]

Ruddy computers!!