Attract Mode shuts down monitor

[bboettjer]

[Draco1962]

I am not certain that Attract Mode is what is causing your system to go into power saving mode. In Windows Control Panel, click on Power Options and go into your default plan settings. Next, look at your power settings for Sleep (Hivernate After) and Display (Turn off display after). You may want to change both to Never then click Apply and OK to save.

[bboettjer]

Hello,

thanks for the reply.

It is not windows that is doing this.

I can just let windows run for (literally) days, and there is no screensaver, no power-down, no monitor turning off, etc...

I have let it run for 4 days like this, just to be sure it was not windows.

Never a change on the screen and everything always worked afterwards.

it is ONLY when I bring up GameEx and let it go into attract mode that this happens.

I can turn off attract mode and let GameEx just display weather and time and this never happens (I let that run for a week, just to see if it would ever power off the monitor... never happened).... It is something related to attract mode.

Keep the ideas coming!!!

Thanks,

B

[Draco1962]

You have Favorites enabled. Let's try this: Load Setup Wizard and go to the Attract/Screensaver section. For Only Favorites select Yes (your current setting is No) and under Also Other Emulators select No. Save these changes and let's see what happens. If this resolves the issue, then it may be that Attract Mode is hanging up on a ROM in your collection that is not working. If not, we shall try something else.

[bboettjer]

Hey - Just a quick update.

Going to the 'favorites only' completly helped the problem(attract mode worked non-stop for 4 days) , until I used instant sheller (this system is a gift to a friend in a new cabinet) to get rid of windows.... then the same old thing... on the next reboot, the system would shut down the monitor when it should have been going to attract mode....

I have erased the hard drive, re-installed the OS, re-set the power settings to 'never' for the monitor and am re-installing GameEx as we speak.

..Could instant sheller be doing this?

Thanks,

B

[bboettjer]

Hey,

Still having the same problem.

I left the Windows 7 system up all night with just the main screen up, to see if the monitor ever shut off... It didn't

I only have 2 favorites, and attract mode seems to cycle between them... but the monitor is always first shut off.

The log snipped follows:

21:21:37.0 3/2/2012: Starting Attract Mode

21:21:37.2 3/2/2012: Shutting down display

log.txt and gameEx.ini files attrached.

This is from a fresh install of the OS (FULL UP Windows 7 ultimate)

A fresh install of GameEx

Attract mode is turned on, other emulators is turned off and only favorites is selected...

Please help... I'd love to give this system to my friend, but I cant give a gift that hangs and needs a reboot if you leave it alone for 4 minutes...

Thanks,

B

log.txt

GameEx.ini

[Draco1962]

Can you provide a complete copy of the log file following the revert from Attract mode? The time stamp of the snippet is not in the log file supplied. Also, uninstall Instant sheller and let's see if there is any interruption of Attract Mode. You may also want to look for a similar time stamp in event viewer to see if there were any other application events noted.

[bboettjer]

Hey,

The reason that there is no revert from attract mode is that when the log says that the display is shut down, the display get shut down and nothing I can do will wake it up.

I can occasionally hear the hard drive getting accessed, but the display never comes back (I have a full keyboard plus an ipac with standard layout)

I have no choice but to hit the reset button, once attract mode has been enterred.

Have I missed your question, in some way?

Instant sheller is currently not installed ( i wanted to get attract mode running before I tried that)

Windows 7 never screen saves, or removed power form the monitor.

The attached log from above shows that GameEx shut-down the monitor when starting attract mode...

21:21:37.0 3/2/2012: Starting Attract Mode

21:21:37.2 3/2/2012: Shutting down display

...Is there some simple way of preventing GameEx from shutting down the display?

Thanks,

Bruce

[bboettjer]

Hey,

Saw a slightly different behavior.

GameEx went into attract mode, the monitor got shut off, and windows (eventually, on its own) said that 'an error had occurred'.

When I said OK, GameEx returned and then went into attract mode (after 4 minutes) Windows did not catch anything at this point and I let it run.

Log attached.... It shows a return from Attract mode, but as I said, this is with Windows saying an error had occurred (no specifics)... I eventually had to reset the machine as attract mode would not exit and the screen would not power back on, even with <ESC> being typed a whole lot (should have exited from GameEx...)

VR,

B

log.txt

[Draco1962]

You need to Click Start, then right Click Computer and select Manage. From there, locate the Event Viewer and check the log files. If you are getting a Windows error, it is possible that your problem is not with Instant Sheller but something else. No way to know for sure until you can identify the app or service that is causing the Windows error. You may need to compare events showing there to the times in the log.txt file. Also, since you noted this is going to be in a cab, try disabling Aero as it is a waste of video resources ( and may help to alleviate other graphics related errors).