Thinking how my overclocking is keeping my computer from S3 resuming properly, I went around looking for some utility that would overclock the computer on the fly when certain programs are run. So that my computer would only overclock when I needed to, leaving the rest of the time ready for standby mode.
SpeedFan has a function that lets you change the clock speed based on CPU load, but it didn’t seem to work.
After scouring the net for a bit, I found a link to RM Clock via Guru3D. It somehow works on the power management features of the CPU/motherboard. So I set it to use a Power Saving profile that I had set to throttle the CPU to 50% when a standby/hibernate command is issued.
Either that made it work, or as Az aptly mentioned, a Systems Engineer solution of ‘keep trying till it works’. 
Yippie. Will test this further at my usual clock of 3.75GHz.
a radio station that learns what you like to listen to: http://www.pandora.com.
a [Hamachi] fallback: [OpenVPN]. i think i’ve set up my vpn server just nicely. now all i need are some guinea pigs.
i need to start working on my abandoned projects, namely the garage and myuucon. who knows, they might become secondary earners.
… i can’t DIY for nuts.
here’s a shout out to all plumbers and electricians! 
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my pursuit for a successful S3 resume has ended in failure. it breaks cuz i’m overclocking my FSB, and might have something to do with the 865 chipset whose timings go haywire when a non-standard FSB is used.
it seems to work if I drop my overclock to 3.6GHz, but my wi-fi connection becomes erratic after that. haven’t thoroughly tested it on stock settings, but i definitely need to overclock on my gaming machine.
i’ll just have to wait for the remaining components for a proper htpc.
anyways, the tw-light thing we tried earlier failed catastrophically. azuan’s ships were self-destructing upon respawn, so we didn’t even get a chance to play a proper game. hopefully the developers will fix it. seems that they might try using a third party network library.
also, sydney photos are up! here’s the link: http://www.bangsar.net/gallery/syd0608. i usually integrate pictures into the entry, but in this case the albums are nested, so nothing will show. too lazy to write myself a parser.
whee. sis came home. sydney pictures now in hand! MCE remote also in hand! 
saturday was spent in Shah Alam at her UiTM convocation. grats to her for getting the Vice Chancellor’s Award, and grats to her on her Bank Negara scholarship.
sunday saw me started on my two washing machine intake project. while i’ve assembled all the parts a few times (acquired from Home-Fix) it’s still incomplete cuz it still leaks despite the amount of Teflon i put on it. was supposed to try again today, but then i found this: http://timewarp.sourceforge.net/. me and azuan will be online more often now.
i was also fiddling with my MCE remote, trying to get it to work with MediaPortal. so far, i’ve tried a few configurations, but can’t quite get what i want exactly. MediaPortal natively supports the remote, but since my pc is not a full htpc yet, there’s no way to run/invoke MediaPortal in the first place. on the other hand, i can install HIP with the MCE remote plugin, but that means i’ll have to reset the MediaPortal key assignments. so close, yet so far.
at the same time, i’m also fiddling with the remote’s PC on/off button, which lets me put the PC on S3 standby mode via the remote, but so far i’m having trouble getting the PC back on again (well, it turns on, but as a complete boot instead of a resume from standby). Research shows i might have some non-ACPI compliant drivers, so i need to try and unplug as many devices as possible and see if the problem persists. if it does, it might mean a windows xp reinstall. we’ll see how it goes.
S3 standby is desired for HTPCs because it lets your computer standby with minimal current. everything is turned off including fans, except your RAM which needs to store your session data before the suspend. It’s basically similar to the Hibernate feature, but with your data in RAM rather than the hard drive. both types are actually part of ACPI.
so that XP reinstall is very possible. cuz how cool is it to be able to turn on and off your pc with a remote?
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because TimeWarp is such a huge download, and i only want to play the SuperMelee component, i’m going to get its TW-Light version instead.
