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All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 15 > Sleep Mode Not Working Properly (HELP)
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Opium
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 5:08AM
i'm having a problem with sleep mode in windows 7. i had sleep and display set to enter sleep mode after 2 hours (sometimes i come back to my PC after making dinner or something and didn't want "wear & tear" to occur by the PC entering sleep mode only to be wakened again shortly). it was working fine the first few days and then it just stopped entering sleep mode. i did some googling and tried disabling the wake timers but that didn't help. so i called gateway and they advised me to set sleep mode to enter after only 10 minutes or even less. so i changed it to 10 minutes and now it's entering sleep mode again. any thoughts/advice on this?
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Edited by - Opium on May 29 2012

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ninja1
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 12:20PM
My thoughts: There is some background event(s) occurring, which prevents your computer from having 2 full hours of being totally and completely idle. I did a quick google and some people say iTunes and/or other Apple things screw up their sleep mode. That is just one example, but there are likely lots of possible culprits. If you really want to get to the bottom of it, you could use task manager to see everything that's running, and use ProcessLibrary.com to analyze every one of them. I'd put any "automatic updater" program high on the list of suspects.
Edited by - ninja1 on 5/29/2012 12:55:00 PM
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Opium
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 1:40PM
thanks for the info. not exactly sure what automatic updater is but if it's windows automatic updates i actually disabled them as soon as i got the PC. the good thing at least is it seems to be staying in sleep mode once it enters. i just wish i could set it longer than 10 minutes.
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ninja1
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 2:03PM
^I was saying automatic updater as a generic term. Lots of stuff you install has a feature whereby it periodically automatically communicates with the "home base" for one reason or another, unbeknownst to the user. It'd take some detective work to find out if that is what's going on with your computer, and if so, what is the specific application responsible.
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RandomPrecision
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Posted - May 29 2012 : 9:51PM
I had a problem with my sleep mode on Vista a while back. It would go into sleep mode but it would wake back up for no apparent reason.
It turned out that the LAN was waking it back up (Or at least if it wasn't, it coincidentally stopped happening after I changed that setting). There are settings somewhere where you can set it so different devices can bring it out of sleep mode. I'm not sure if that's what you mean or not but it took me a while to figure it out. It's unbelievable how convoluted they made these power saving features considering they expect ordinary people to use them.
Edited by - randomprecision on 5/29/2012 9:53:42 PM
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