PC will not sleep!

Gabbatek · 27 Oct 2016 at 11:15

Curious as to why my pc sometimes instantly wakes up when entering sleep mode.

Is there a way to look this up? I have allow wake up times off in power settings.
Cant think of any software that is stopping it

Windows 10
5820k water cooled

pandem0nium · 27 Oct 2016 at 11:20

Personally I shut mine down when not in use. Set up fast boot after finding a good stable overclock and set up auto login to Windows.

Disco_P · 27 Oct 2016 at 13:09

Overclocking and sleep don't play well together. I think it's PLL overvoltage that prevents sleep whilst massively helping with stable overclocks.

Zeebedy · 27 Oct 2016 at 13:13

Gabbatek said:
Curious as to why my pc sometimes instantly wakes up when entering sleep mode.

Is there a way to look this up? I have allow wake up times off in power settings.
Cant think of any software that is stopping it

Windows 10
5820k water cooled

have the same problem, sometimes it will go into sleep straight away or sometimes it will wake back up and i need to put it to sleep again. I have just learned to get used to it, not the end of the world really...

RTJ

Gabbatek · 27 Oct 2016 at 20:58

haha well if i turn the pc off and on again, then it'll sleep no problem. Sometimes it's just a little temperamental.

Only reason i don't shut it down is that i like all my monitoring programs open on the second monitor and a cold boot means i have to rearrange them again

Bantu · 28 Oct 2016 at 12:16

could it be waking on LAN?
If not it could be silly things like moving the mouse slightly... that sometimes takes my PC out of sleep.

How about hibernate? would that help? then you get to keep the arrangement and it's also a full shutdown.

physichull · 28 Oct 2016 at 12:38

I get this with my ageing system, i7 920 overclocked to 3.4 GHz. Most of the time it stays asleep but often I come back to find it up and running. Some days it won't sleep at all and turns back on instantaneously. I've turned off the options to wake up on mouse movement to eliminate that as a suspect. Keyboard or power button are the only things that SHOULD wake it up.

Gabbatek · 29 Jan 2017 at 18:44

I FINALLY FIXED IT!!!!! woooooooooo

went into command prompt and typed in

'powercfg -lastwake'

It was my ethernet waking up my computer from sleep or hibernate :mad:

in device manager i found my ethernet adapter and under it's properties it has power management, i turned off 'allow this device to wake the computer' and 'allow the computer to turn off this device to save power'.

As if this has plagued me for soooo long

varkanoid · 30 Jan 2017 at 13:57

Sleep mode is evil. Ban it.

Rroff · 30 Jan 2017 at 14:02

varkanoid said:
Sleep mode is evil. Ban it.

I've never found it works well with desktop Windows PCs - only really on systems that have been designed from ground up to support it like tablets and laptops.

Had some really odd issues due to it on systems I've supported that took quite a lot to narrow down i.e. one system after resuming from sleep the NIC would get slower and slower but only after resuming from sleep and another which would stop recognising their scanner and I didn't realise they used sleep mode so it was difficult to duplicate the problem for awhile.