Getting a PC to come out of stand-by

[crockey]

Hi,

I'm using a Waitable Timer to schedule some jobs in my application and would like them to start even if the computer is in stand-by mode or hibernating.

The Media Center PCs I've tried come out of stand-by fine in response to the Waitable Timer event, but standard Dells just keep on sleeping.

Ideas/Thoughts?

Thanks,

Chuck

[NoHero]

Some standby mods of CPU's can only be disabled by an lowlevel software interrupt for the power management. Go and write a driver for this.

[Wombat]

How about preventing the PC from going into sleeping power state? Check out SetThreadExecutionState() with the ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED flag.

[Marc G]

See http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=WOSB (as a simple google query would have told you ;) )