HP Media Center 8100 series Review

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Oklahoma City, OK

powerful media center but does it go into sleep

pc-user, always online, Internet addict, expecting the computer to work right, want reliable and easy technology

Pros

a lot of ports, remote, 3 G RAM, DVD RW with light scribe, TV Tuner

Cons

mine does not go into sleep

NOV

2007

I have HP 8100M replacing an old desktop at home. The fact that I had a 19 inch LCD monitor laying around made me think about buying this media tower since it does not come with a monitor. I should say that I am impressed by the hardware. It comes with all the RAM, processor and 500 GB hard drive; an ok video graphics card, tv and radio tuner, media center remote and vista home premium. Regardless though I cannot put the machine into sleep and that drives me crazy. Finally I formatted it and reinstalled all the programs and I can put it into sleep right now but now it wakes up basically whenever it wants to. Having this computer in my bed room it causes problems. Another thing is you cannot just shut down the computer it is not recommended. Even if you do it is difficult to turn it on. Sometimes I have to plug it off then plug it back on. I am not sure whether my computer is faulty but I realized that these problems are reported by other people on internet and it seems like a software problem more than a hardware problem.