Powercfg confirmed it was now another cause.Īt the time none of the other things proved fruitful, including the M$ Fix-it program created for this issue. So I used another one that the Powercfg cmd showed fixed it that time, sleep returned to normal for aįew days, then broke again. That's a bold statement knowing how windows 'works.'įor me it is/was a compound issue, first the Powercfg cmd showed me my audio driver was the problem, 'certain that the solution must be very simple for it already work when manually commanded to sleep.' There are many, many differences between auto & manual sleep. Instead of a Nerd here's my experience.Īlthough the Powercfg cmd was not the end all answer for me either, It is the first step & I am certain that the solution must be very simple for it already work when manually commanded to sleep.Īlthough I'm a Power User Hippie working on this issue for a year now, I have to turn it OFF every time I leave.

Having a computer not go to sleep is absolutely annoying.

Anyone can help here? Simplicity can you please send me this App to my email: wish some nerds could ear my desperate call and supply a real solution to this problem. Unfortunately the link to his little program is no longer valid. Simpliciti seamed to have a solution above. Still, why only from timer sleep and not from manual call? It was by following a hint from SPW24 that I was able to isolate my problem. And, forget about all these Powercfg -energy stuff and all, they are useless. If disabled the computer will go to sleep but when enabled only the screen will go blank but the computer will stay alive.

I finally isolated the problem source being the built-in Network Card that is causing the problem. Even Microsoft is suggesting all kinds of solutions that dont work. In fact, it appears that I am far from being the only one with this problem. And why is there no one who figured that one already. What I cannot figure out is why the difference? Why does it work when commanded manually and not work when called from a timer? Sleep is Sleep after all.

At ANY time I can just command my computer to go to sleep but if left alone the computer will automatically turn the screen OFF but stay ON with Fan and all the rest.Īs if there was a difference between the manual Sleep command and the Timed Sleep from power management settings.

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