Win 8.1 Power Plan Problem

zom247 · 13 Aug 2014 at 22:15

I changed the power plan so that the monitor and hard drives don't turn off and also for no password when waking from sleep. However, everytime I wake from sleep or start my PC it has been reverted back to it's default settings. I am saving the changes but not sure what's causing this. Any ideas?

kfouwels · 13 Aug 2014 at 23:15

Probably some pre-installed OEM crapware "power management tool", have a look through your installed programs.

zom247 · 14 Aug 2014 at 05:26

kfouwels said:
Probably some pre-installed OEM crapware "power management tool", have a look through your installed programs.

Nothing in there stands out as OEM crapware so guess I'll keep searching.

ron3003 · 14 Aug 2014 at 09:16

You don't happen to have HD Tune installed by any chance? It's a known bug that everytime it's run it resets some power settings.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 14 Aug 2014 at 09:20

I have issues with Samsung Magician (came with SSD) software. It runs it's own power profile, and even with the HDDs set to never power down, they still do. Which is a pain when I run a game and have to wait for the drives to spin up...

zom247 · 14 Aug 2014 at 10:37

ron3003 said:
You don't happen to have HD Tune installed by any chance? It's a known bug that everytime it's run it resets some power settings.

I do actually as I'm checking some HDDs before selling them. I've only had it installed for a couple of days which now fits the timescale of the changes. As soon as I've finished checking the HDDs I'll uninstall it.

Thanks very much