Force sleep mode??

[katie279]

Hi all,

Posted a while back on this (how windows is failing to enter sleep mode on its own). Have tried lots of things from googling, but these damn PCs just won't reliably enter sleep mode.

Failing this, I'm wanting to 'force' sleep mode - ie if I click start>sleep it works fine, so I'm thinking I could set a schedule to do this, so at least overnight I've not got two PCs with six monitors on full whack...!

Any suggestions on best software/approach to achieve this?

 

[katie279]

None of this will work if you have a connected peripheral that doesn't honour s1 to S4 sleep States. Some modern USB c hub monitors do this. The fix is to set s1 to S4 sleep state values in local or group policy. Easy.

Er... What???? What do you mean set the values?

 

[katie279]

Have you made sure you have the latest Ryzen CPU/chipset drivers installed for your system(s)?

Erm..... Nope! Are these through bios driver or separate? Have latest bios, but never realised there was a chipset driver? Should this be in device manager and does windows not keep this up to date by default if so??

 

[katie279]

Mmm ok, will check!