Look at the power management widget in Control Panel.  For there you should
be able to disable the standby state for your PC.  You may also have to
modify the power management settings in your BIOS.

Jim


"Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj56590[:-0]"@aol.com> wrote in message
news:3BBCD43E.4D872668@aol.com...
> I have used MegaPov 0.7 and 3.1g for years on PCs with Win98.  I have
> set up very long renders, sometimes ones running for days, and never saw
> an interruption.  The PC would go into a "screen lock" mode or whatever
> (hey I'm no programmer!), but my perception is that this only affected
> the monitor; it would never actually *interrupt* the rendering.
>
> Now, using 3.5 on WinME,  I set up  a long render using radioisity.
> When the PC went into that "screen lock" mode, the rendering actually
> stopped, to resume when I reawakened the PC.  The rendering only
> proceeded for the hour or so after I would actually use the PC for other
> things.
>
> Can anyone HELP ME with the information on whether:
>
>     1) I need to change the settings in WinME for the
> sleep/standby/autolockup, etc.,  and tell me where to find such
> settings.
>
>     OR
>
>     2) This is something aboug 3.5 that is either
>         a) buggy
>         OR
>         b) switch-off-able ?
>
> Help from informed persons is appreciated.
>
>

Post a reply to this message