Comments on: Windows 7 RC Won’t Sleep!

By: charlie

charlie — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:09:32 +0000

Hybernate no worked for me also. Yahoo!! Thank you.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:51:40 +0000

This frustrated the hell out of me. I disabled every “allow to wake up the computer” and it still wouldn’t sleep. The solution that worked for me does not make any sense. But what solved it for me was to disable “hybrid sleep.” Why that works, I will never know.

By: David B

David B — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:34:56 +0000

After I installed Synergy as server on my Win7 64 bit PC it started jumping right out of sleep.

Checking the box for ‘magic packet’ fixed the problem.

Thanks.

By: John R

John R — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:36:20 +0000

Brand new HP win 7 PC bought Dec 2010 sleep worked fine.
Now I can’t get it to sleep. Only hardware I added was a USB connected HP Deskjet printer, but I don’t know if that actually caused the lack of sleep. Also added a couple of application programs but they did not cause the problem.
Removed printer cable, disabled hybrid sleep and re-booted.
Wake history count – 0 but i suspect it only counts from the last boot, and sleep has not worked for several days now.
powercfg -waketimers says there are no active waketimers in the system, so i believe it’s simply not going to sleep vs being woken up.
Will update if i get more info.

By: big john

big john — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:20:55 +0000

save time and change the mouse after removing all USB plugs.
My optical new mouse was the problem!

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