Windows 7 goes to sleep when authoring a DVD

[DougInAZ]

I'd be surprised if this has anything to do with VRD, but my Win7 computer will go to sleep right in the middle of authoring a DVD with TVS582 or 83.

I made a DVD using VRD 583 and XP on the same machine today and It didn't have any trouble staying awake during the job. I've never had this problem before under XP or Vista. It happened yesterday using Win 7, so I modified a power plan to have a long sleep time. I forgot to turn it on today (Why would anyone expect that would be necessary?)

I did a quick search for this type of behavior and haven't found anything yet. As far as I know, I don't have any settings that I haven't used before in other machines.
Anyone have any ideas?

The machine is an AMD 64 X2 running Win 7 Home Prem 64 (rel) in a dual-boot config with XP. All of the other few programs I have used so far seem to operate OK, but none are like VRD running a job that lasts 2+ hours.

Doug

[jobedo]

I have the same thing happen to me. It will do it when i am in the middle of encoding.In WIN 7 power options i sit it to go to sleep after 2 hrs. instead of half hr.
JOE

[DanR]

Interesting. Did you migrate from Vista or XP? Was this a problem under the previous OS?

[DougInAZ]

Dan,
The OSes are both the result of a clean install. The Win 7 was an upgrade from XP, but since I installed it a couple times and did a format on the partition, I don't think there was much left over from XP. MS must have grabbed the key on the XP partition before formatting the disk previous to installing the Win 7 upgrade as a clean install.

The XP partition is a copy of the original partition, prior to any Win 7 activity, on a separate hard drive. I believe they are completely independent as you can boot from either drive if you change the BIOS or from the boot manager if you don't.

And to make matters more interesting, I installed TVS564 from the site and found that it does not go to sleep during a compile. I had the timers set at 10 and 20 minutes and it ran over an hour before I took a look to see what it was doing. The only visible difference is that with V58x, the CPU meter shows about 95% busy all of the time. With V564, it is a steady 60%. I have multiple hard drives, so there isn't much disk activity to slow down the process.

I was disapointed to find that the problem of the menu selections being changed when not requested acted the same in 564 as it did in 578, 582 & 583. Something must have changed somewhere.

The only other thing unusual about these files is that they are 4/3 video and I am converting them to 16/9 pillar box, during the build. They are 704x480 and originate from wtv files. This is a first time for this format. What ever the reason, it seems as I can't find any combination that works any more, even going back to files in the format I always used or ancient versions of TVS.

[DanR]

Doug, 597 which will be posted shortly should no longer go to sleep during authoring.