New NUC, HD5000, 4x USB 3.0, infrared sensor

Got the NUC sleeping after tinkering this morning before work. Now need to work through the settings I changed one by one to figure out the culprit.

Appreciate if you guys have your sleep (after time) working - whether you also have:

Selected "high performance" or "balanced" power" in the BIOS (I changed to balanced to see if this was the problem)
Have hibernation enabled/disabled in Windows (turned this off with powercfg -h off)
Have HomeGroup sharing on/off (mine is switched off now after reading this might cause problems with sleep)
 
Mmm I'm pretty sure I've returned everything to what it was and it's still working now.

Windows applied a ton of updates yesterday though, it could have been one of those solved it. Fingers crossed.
 
Got everything working, but it didn't like the USB wireless keyboard (logitech) and mouse (microsoft) plugged in the front. It worked fine with them near the nuc but not 2 meters away in the room.

Fixed that with a small usb extension lead for each one, probably a lot of EMF being generated near the NUC.
 
Spoke too soon, WOL stopped working. Grrr I'm sure this is all windows updates. Deleted the network entry from device manager, rebooted with MS network drivers and it works again!
 
No idea on the price drop, the only difference I spotted is one has 1 HDMI and 1 Thunderbolt no Ethernet, the other has 2x HDMI and Ethernet.
 
I can't see why they couldn't do an i7, I get a feeling that the i5 haswells are really popular. If they can stuff the i7 into a macbook air, it should indicate they can do the same into the NUC (it's the same proc after all, one of the few machines out there with HD5000 graphics)
 
I that is true, the i7 in the Air is 2 core, 4 thread like the i5. Just looked a bit more carefully at the specs, can't really see that much difference apart from the processor cache.

Bail trail looks nice but don't forget HD5000 graphics in these chips. Wondering if it will manage 4k video.

Edit: just found this:
http://www.planar.com/blog/2013/11/14/playing-video-in-4k/#.Uqwv1_RdXTc

Which mentions they tested 4k video at 24fps.

Links to the i5 and i7 haswell procs:

i5 http://ark.intel.com/products/75028/
i7 http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/
 
d4nx-c said:
I know a few on you have already done this but just Lowered the Min Fan Speed to 0%.....

What a difference - Runs almost silent, unless under heavy load obviously. Can def recommend doing this.
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I'm finding it fine at 40. It's behind the telly and I can't hear it unless there is no sound coming through when I can hear a small whirl. I also found the changes in pitch for the wind up / wind down of the fan more distracting that the sound itself. At 40 it stays constant playing Netflix which I found better.
 
Not noticed any issues with XBMC but mine wont sleep if XBMC is running so never noticed it.

Not really used the IR either. Got a media centre remote had a play, wakes up from off which is good. Seem to work with xmbc no problems, no delays all fine. I'm using a Logitech K400 keyboard + trackpad instead which I prefer.
 
MikeyTT said:
I had the same problem, but now I get XBMC to do the sleeping and not Win8. I set it to suspend after 30 mins and it's doing exactly that. If I don't set any power options in XBMC and let Win8 control the power, it just never seems to sleep. I'm sure there will be a setting in the OS that needs overriding, but now XBMC does it I've not bothered to look.
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Not tried this with xmbc but it should work, from admin cmd prompt:

powercfg /requestoverride <path to xbmc>\xmbc.exe

This should stop xbmc preventing the machine to sleep, but the solution to let xbmc do it itself is just as good.

powercfg /requests also shows what is preventing the machine to sleep (sometimes...)
 
I'm pretty sure BIOS selection is F2, worth bashing that to try get to it? Otherwise worth trying a display port to HDMI cable?

Also have you thought about plugging it into your TV if it has HDMI? Mine boots BIOS into 1080p no problems. I'm pretty sure it detects the supported resolution.
 
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I'm a bit confused, this says "Internal support for 2.5-inch HDD or SSD". I thought this would be mSATA (for boot & OS ) + internal HDD (storage)? Is it just one HDD/SSD SATA connection?
 
Be interested in temperatures etc. under load and how easy you find the installation. They claim these cases run cooler than the stock fan! Any ideas of whether this voids the warranty? Not worried about noise levels of my NUC, these aren't are bothering me at all, but sounds like a nice little project and reduces the fan dust cleaning maintenance overhead.
 
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