why does no pc ever stay a ******* sleep?

unwashed potato! · 27 May 2020 at 09:59

i have had 3 desktop pcs now all of which do not stay asleep when you put it to sleep. can be as little as 30 seconds later and it's back awake and remains awake never going back to sleep as it's sat on the login page.

all new hardware each time.

so annoying as it can be sat turned on for a couple days sometimes before i realise and it's wasting energy

Django x2 · 27 May 2020 at 10:57

You have something keeping it awake. Simple. Could be LAN/WiFi, GFX, USB. You can disable hybrid sleep, set a sleep timer, set a blank screensaver, disable S1 and S3 sleep states (the most common), all of which will solve your issue.

powercfg -lastwake or powercfg -devicequery wake_armed. Might give you some direction

A common culprit in Win10 is a scheduled task for Windows Update

ALD · 27 May 2020 at 21:04

Turning allow wake timers to off in advanced power settings fixes it for me.

unwashed potato! · 30 May 2020 at 01:00

C:\Users\>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
HID-compliant mouse (005)
HID Keyboard Device (004)
HID-compliant mouse (009)

C:\Users\>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Wake Timer
Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker)
Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

this is what i got. i came to my computer just now and the computer was awake from sleep.

Django x2 · 30 May 2020 at 13:31

Django x2 said:
A common culprit in Win10 is a scheduled task for Windows Update

You're welcome...

Coolasmoo · 30 May 2020 at 14:49

If your using any optical from a sound card or onboard that can also keep pc awake.

Had that problem years ago which took a while to fix.

VaderDSL · 2 Jun 2020 at 19:29

ALD said:
Turning allow wake timers to off in advanced power settings fixes it for me.

Same

unwashed potato! · 3 Jun 2020 at 10:12

Django x2 said:
You're welcome...

Didn't seem to fix it for me. I have allow wake timers disabled and it still comes out of sleep

Django x2 · 3 Jun 2020 at 16:14

Apex said:
Didn't seem to fix it for me. I have allow wake timers disabled and it still comes out of sleep

This ignores wake timers. Technically because it's not a wake timer. You need to disable the scheduled task

unwashed potato! · 4 Jun 2020 at 01:02

Which scheduled task is it?

Django x2 · 4 Jun 2020 at 13:50

Apex said:
Which scheduled task is it?

\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator

AHarvey · 4 Jun 2020 at 18:50

Mine is the same in that it won't go to sleep even when I tell it too, and then it wakes up randomly.

I've looked into it, can't find the reason, stays on all the time now