Hi!
Peter Popov wrote in message <36144c04.0@news.povray.org>...
>I don't know about your system, but mine wakes the computer (or prevents
>power-saving mode) if there's HDD activity. If I render something regular,
>the saver is not activated at all. If I do a
>100000-glass-spheres-with-media-and-radiosity-aa0.0 scene and it takes more
>than 15 min pre line, the saver activates and deactivates. My advice is,
>turn off your monitor for overnight renders.
>
>Peter


Of course, I always shut my monitor off for long renders (the computer is in
my sleeping room, and when the screen wakes up in the middle of the night, I
do also). I don't know if it is HDD activity that does it. The screensaver
does kick in when I use scan disk and messes the process. Also, it isn't
systematic : sometimes the screensaver works, sometimes it doesn't, and
sometimes it starts and wakes up for apparently no reasons... No doubt, I am
using windows 95 :-)

It isn't serious. It is barely annoying (well, it is when I am in a bad
mood). I just wanted to add this with the other weird behaviours of my
computer, as I thought it could be tied.

(I'd like to see that 100000-glass-spheres-with-media-and-radiosity-aa0.0
scene one day)

Povingly,


Philippe

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