- Apr 7, 2008
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Hi,
I have a newly installed Point-of-Sale system, which has 5 pc’s.
1pc is the “server” and the other 4 are regular terminals.
All 5 pc’s have the following:
Windows 7 32bit
Gigabit Network cards all running at 1gig
All connected through a Gigabit Switch
All network cords have been replaced and tested, and the Switch has also been replaced and tested.
No other software is installed on any of the PC’s except the POS program.
Problem: the server runs perfectly fine at all times. However, the other 4 pc’s seem to go to “sleep” after only a few minutes of non-use. Example: if you go to a pc (not the server) and attempt to take an order, it will take 5 to 30 seconds to communicate with the server… but once it communicates then that particular pc is lightning speed and has no issues no matter how long you work on it. If you walk away from it for more than just a couple of minutes and try to start another order, it will take another 5-30 seconds to communicate.
On all 5 pc’s I’ve created a “Custom Power Plan”, and turned off everything that would go to sleep or suspend. I’ve also gone to the Device manager to the Network Adapters and all of the USB Controllers and turned off all Power Save options.
Other than that, I cannot think of anything else that would go to sleep/hibernate/suspend that would be causing this problem. I am not 100% fluent with all of Windows 7 new features yet, but I’m sure there is something that I am missing.
Any thoughts?
Thank you all!
I have a newly installed Point-of-Sale system, which has 5 pc’s.
1pc is the “server” and the other 4 are regular terminals.
All 5 pc’s have the following:
Windows 7 32bit
Gigabit Network cards all running at 1gig
All connected through a Gigabit Switch
All network cords have been replaced and tested, and the Switch has also been replaced and tested.
No other software is installed on any of the PC’s except the POS program.
Problem: the server runs perfectly fine at all times. However, the other 4 pc’s seem to go to “sleep” after only a few minutes of non-use. Example: if you go to a pc (not the server) and attempt to take an order, it will take 5 to 30 seconds to communicate with the server… but once it communicates then that particular pc is lightning speed and has no issues no matter how long you work on it. If you walk away from it for more than just a couple of minutes and try to start another order, it will take another 5-30 seconds to communicate.
On all 5 pc’s I’ve created a “Custom Power Plan”, and turned off everything that would go to sleep or suspend. I’ve also gone to the Device manager to the Network Adapters and all of the USB Controllers and turned off all Power Save options.
Other than that, I cannot think of anything else that would go to sleep/hibernate/suspend that would be causing this problem. I am not 100% fluent with all of Windows 7 new features yet, but I’m sure there is something that I am missing.
Any thoughts?
Thank you all!
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