I just finished building a new mini-itx htpc machine. I equipped the system with these parts:
Jetway JNC81-LF AM2+ AMD780G Mainboard
AMD Athlon II X2 235e 2.7GHz Dual Core AM3 CPU - 45W
Kingston 2GB 800Mhz DDR2 SoDIMM
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Everything else is working just nicely but the sleep mode of computer is causing problems (big surprise...). After the computer wakes up, it's just extremely slow. I tried to run the Win7's own performance tool but after 30minutes or so, I quit it because it was only half-way through.
If I start the Media Center after the sleep mode, the UI isn't smooth and sometimes it takes almost 15 seconds for the screen to refresh after I've pressed a key. There doesn't seem to be any processes using the CPU and cpu-z shows that the processor is still able to raise it's clocks to the maximum 2.7GHz (the cpu usually idles at 800MHz).
I'm thinking that the problem is somehow related to the integrated GPU. After waking up, the Aero is gone. There's no transparent windows or anything. But the Aero works just fine before sleeping. I upgraded the Catalyst's to the version 10.4 but it didn't help. I've also upgraded the chipset drivers.
Any ideas? I think I'll try to unplug every USB-device and see if it helps but I'm not counting on it. I don't think there's a newer BIOS available for my motherboard so I can't try that.
edit: The performance doesn't recover at any point. I've tried to leave the computer alone for 15 minutes after waking it up but it was still extremely slow.
Jetway JNC81-LF AM2+ AMD780G Mainboard
AMD Athlon II X2 235e 2.7GHz Dual Core AM3 CPU - 45W
Kingston 2GB 800Mhz DDR2 SoDIMM
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Everything else is working just nicely but the sleep mode of computer is causing problems (big surprise...). After the computer wakes up, it's just extremely slow. I tried to run the Win7's own performance tool but after 30minutes or so, I quit it because it was only half-way through.
If I start the Media Center after the sleep mode, the UI isn't smooth and sometimes it takes almost 15 seconds for the screen to refresh after I've pressed a key. There doesn't seem to be any processes using the CPU and cpu-z shows that the processor is still able to raise it's clocks to the maximum 2.7GHz (the cpu usually idles at 800MHz).
I'm thinking that the problem is somehow related to the integrated GPU. After waking up, the Aero is gone. There's no transparent windows or anything. But the Aero works just fine before sleeping. I upgraded the Catalyst's to the version 10.4 but it didn't help. I've also upgraded the chipset drivers.
Any ideas? I think I'll try to unplug every USB-device and see if it helps but I'm not counting on it. I don't think there's a newer BIOS available for my motherboard so I can't try that.
edit: The performance doesn't recover at any point. I've tried to leave the computer alone for 15 minutes after waking it up but it was still extremely slow.