HELP! Tried everything..Computer Won't Wake UP in middle of important render!

[danb4026]

I'm rendering a job, deadline this afternoon The computer went to sleep

and nothing will wake it up! Moved mouse, pressed Ctl-alt-del many times, hit every key under the sun, inserted and uninserted items into USB ports.....nothing works.

 

If I reset, I will lose the render that has been going to 8 hours!

 

HELP!!!!! PLEASE!!

[chiquito]

sounds like you are in a stressfull point.

I would reset, If you did save Irradiance map, good, either way, refer to external render farm, pay, but deliver and keep the client.

you cant win everytime.

good luck

[ronll]

Granted I'm not familiar with most rendering engines, but mine writes every scanline to the harddrive. Therefore if it is interrupted, I simply need to restart it with an instruction to "resume" and nothing is lost. Don't other renderers do this?

[Sawyer]

Vray has the option to write buckets to hd but if its not enable at the beginning...

 

With my new LG monitor I have problems with it waking up. My cpu wakes fine but sometimes I have to un and re plug the monitor in. I would think if your CPU is asleep then its not rendering.

[danb4026]

thanks for the replies...i believe it probably saved my light cache and irradiance map in memory. I know the light cache was finished, so I can retrieve that. Not sure about the Irr map though, and that had 4 passes to do. I will reset and pray.

[danb4026]

I did not know about that option, I will check it out now.

 

Vray has the option to write buckets to hd but if its not enable at the beginning...

 

 

With my new LG monitor I have problems with it waking up. My cpu wakes fine but sometimes I have to un and re plug the monitor in. I would think if your CPU is asleep then its not rendering.

[Sawyer]

If you create a vray image file it will write each bucket to the hd as it renders.

[BrianKitts]

do you have your mouse and keyboard plugged in to a USB port on your monitor? does your cpu know it's trying to be waken.......?

 

I had a set of viewsonics monitors that when they went to sleep they turn off the USB hub in the side of them. When that happened it no longer recognized the mouse and keyboard and you couldn't wake up the system you'd have to power on/off the monitors move the mouse and then the system would wake up.

 

there's was no internal setting to correct this which I think is completely stupid..... so then I moved the mouse cable directly to the CPU. system wakes like normal.

[danb4026]

Its a wireless keyboard with the receiver pluged into a USB hub, which in turn is plugged into the back of the computer box itself.

 

I reset the computer and it saved the light cache and IR map, so all I had to do was start the final render. Thanks the lord.

 

Pushing that reset button was one of the hardest things I ever had to do!!

[shaneis]

One of the first pieces of advice I was taught at college about rendering -

 

1. Turn off the power-saving features on your PC (you're using 100% CPU anyway, what's a few more watts),

2. If you want to save your screen, just turn it off with the button on your monitor,

3. Once you hit "render", don't touch it until it's finished!

[quizzy]

and turn off the screensaver as well... ;-)