Thank for the help guys, gonna try the power saving tip. Can't believe the amount of power saving options in Win7. Guess this is what we get for trying to be green.
I had the same problem, and after a TON of research I think I finally nipped it in the butt. It's a Windows 7 64x problem with power saving. It seems that the 64 bit version of Windows 7 likes to tun absolutely everything off to try and save power. Go to your power saving options and make sure Windows never shuts anything…