I rencetly purchase a LCD power meter from Canadian Tire (35$ is super cheap if you are in Canada, available online) in hopes of lowering my energy consumption. I noticed that when vista goes to "sleep" it only goes from about 175 Watts to 130 Watts. Now i know that this is because i have my Xbox connected for streaming media from to the system's HD. My PC does not want to go into a low power mode (say 15 watts) because it's has to be ready for a request from the 360 at any momment. The PC will still take 130 Watts in sleep mode even when the xbox is turned off.
Is there a way to have the PC go into a real sleep mode (15 Watts) yet still be able to be awakened by a request from the Xbox to start accessing a hard drive for streaming media? Is this "Wake on LAN"?
Is there a workaround to keep my electricity consumption down other than manually powering everything up or down when needed?
Thanks
Robot1501
Is there a way to have the PC go into a real sleep mode (15 Watts) yet still be able to be awakened by a request from the Xbox to start accessing a hard drive for streaming media? Is this "Wake on LAN"?
Is there a workaround to keep my electricity consumption down other than manually powering everything up or down when needed?
Thanks
Robot1501
