Comments on: Windows 7 RC Won’t Sleep!

By: cusco

cusco — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:32:43 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the tips, but it is not working for me. Everytime I tell teh computer to sleep (by keypress, cli, or clicking in the start menu), it will only put the screen black, but continue working.

If I press the little switch that counts as lid closed, as soon as I release it, login screen is right there, too fast.

And after I done that a few times:

C:\Users\Tiago>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count – 0

C:\Users\Tiago>

Can anyone help me???

By: Shayne

Shayne — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:14:52 +0000

Thank you so much!, my computer has had this problem since the beta versions and I could not find a fix anywhere for this.

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:31:27 +0000

Jesus this is really frustrating. I tried everything on here nothing works. Funy thing is that it used to work.

Powercfg-requests yields Display:None, System: None, Awaymode: None.

Powercfg-lastwake:
Wake History Count – 1
Wake History [0]
Wake source count -0

The weirdest part is that if I unplug everything from the back of the computer and use the front USB ports, it goes to sleep.

I’m using an ASUS PT6 Deluxe motherboard, and disabled “allow this device to wake this computer” for every component I could find.

Any other ideas out there?

By: Doe

Doe — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:08:31 +0000

After trying all kinds of methods: going into my network card, powercfg, updates, videos, even uninstall each app and slowly reinstall it again to catch the problem, nothing. Then messing around with the power manager I was finally able to get it to sleep on win 7 OS. Turned Hybrid off and ding, it work. Too bad I found Tom’s post on NOV 9th, 2009 a little too late. Hope this help if you try everything else like me, just try what TOM said up above.

By: Carly

Carly — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:55:26 +0000

Thank you, Graham! Your post helped me find my problem… I have a USB microphone attached which was enabled for playback; as soon as I disabled it my system was able to sleep again!

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:54 +0000

Finally found the solution. Used ‘powercfg -requests’ in the command prompt and found my audio driver was the problem. Adjusted some settings in my audio controls and now my computer can automatically sleep.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:20 +0000

Tried all the above but still can’t resolve problem. Can perform manual sleep but simply can’t get system to sleep automatically. All worked when I purchased system and have disabled all new devices I have added since then, i.e. trackball and printer. Anyone have any other suggestions as it is driving me mad?

By: João Paulo

João Paulo — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:19:22 +0000

Fixed following Tom’s post (in fact, turning off the hybrid sleep option)!!!
Thanks for everyone!

By: JAMES

JAMES — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:18:55 +0000

I found that doing the following fixed the problem:

- Disable “Allow this device to wake the pc” on your mouse
- Disable “Allow this device to wake the pc” on your keyboard
- Allow only magic packets to wake the PC from your network card

I left hybrid sleep enabled, although this may not work for everyone

Hope this helps!

By: John

John — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:45:56 +0000

I updated the audio driver for my board, Asus M4A79XTD EVO, and what do you know? Sleep worked just fine.
Go figure

By: dowty

dowty — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:48:49 +0000

After trying everything else, including the detailed instructions at MS, I turned “hybrid sleep” off and this fixed the problem. It also enabled Hibernate, which was missing before. Now I hope I have not turned off something which I need.

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:58:39 +0000

Well my problem is different my monitor actually goes to sleep and so does my HDD, but the motherboard, heatsink, fans, DVD burner even the fans in the powersuplly stay on and just about everything else you connet to it(hum… wonder if its cuz of the aftermarket heatsinks on both cards and CPU Cooler(with 3 pin connection not like the stock heatsink where u get the 4 pin connection) is also aftermarket..) on too cant seem to find a solution for it…. Help!? Anyone???

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:20:53 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone posting in here … my PC running Windows 7 Professional would NOT sleep to save my ***. I went in and disabled Wake on LAN under power saving, I disabled all Wake on LAN protocols in device manager, as well as turning off Wake on LAN capabilities in the driver itself. Anyway, none of this made a difference – the problem went away when I went to Advanced Power Management options and disabled “Hybrid Sleep” and it effectively solved my problems – my PC now sleeps like a baby. (It was soooo frustrating, since I dual-boot Ubuntu x64 and Win7 x64 – Ubuntu would “Sleep” perfectly, but Windows wouldn’t … GRRRRRR! – but, all better now.) Anyway – y’all gave me the idea, so thanks!

By: JAMBergie

JAMBergie — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:39:02 +0000

I had the same problem. I got it to work by turning over wake up for both my keyboard and mouse. Everything else left at default fixed it for me.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:03:14 +0000

I have similiar problem but a little different. The computer goes to sleep just fine and wakes up on a key press. But the second time it just hangs with fans spinning after alot of time the machine completely turns off and when windows comes back up it thinks it did not shut down correctly

Both with hibernate and sleep do the same thing, this is with windows 7 rc. Is this fixed in the primary release?

Asus motherboard M4A785TD-V evo bios updated to 0512

Dang strange it works once

Have a service ticket with asus but they have not been much help