Vista no longer sleeping

manic111 · 4 Jul 2008 at 12:32

When I hit "sleep", the monitor goes to standby, but the mouse and keyboard remain on and the hard drive light flashes continuously. The computer does not go to sleep. Any ideas why? Cheers!

deadite66 · 4 Jul 2008 at 14:52

did you accidentally delete the hibernate file with disk cleaner?

in an elevated cmd console run
powercfg /hibernate on
should re-enable it.

manic111 · 4 Jul 2008 at 15:03

Er...how do I open an elevated command console?

Snakedoctor · 4 Jul 2008 at 15:07

Sleep has nothing to do with hibernation, that hybrid sleep. It should still sleep regardless. My guess is a memory or driver problem. Make sure you have things like keyboard not set to wake and mouse as well. Have you recently started to overclock it? That can prevent them from sleeping. TBH, you are far far better off shutting down than setting to sleep as things tend not to behave themselves after a sleep!

manic111 · 4 Jul 2008 at 15:47

All seems to be working again, I rebooted and then set all of the power settings back to default. Cheers!