My PC has insomnia!

af_thefragile

My PC can't seem to go to sleep or hibernate. Every time I put it to sleep, it wakes up on its own after 2-3mins and then if you leave it alone, it goes back to sleep after 15 or so mins and then wakes back up again after a few mins and it keeps doing this.

Does anyone know why my PC can't seem to go to sleep?
Its a windows 7 if it helps...

Cheers.

Overheal

Turn your ridiculously over-sensitive mouse upside down.

af_thefragile

I don't know if its just the mouse though cuz I don't even touch the thing and it wakes up out of sleep mode... And its not a very sensitive mouse either. Its just a cheapo mouse I found lying around my house...

I'll see if turning the mouse upside down makes any difference...

johnnybmac

Could also be your network card or another piece of hardware...

Full instructions here (Including how to find out what's waking the computer) http://www.cravingtech.com/fix-windows-vista7-sleep-mode-from-waking-up-by-itself.html

Hal Emmerich

Turn it off?:D

The Internet Explorer

Sing to it or something.

Hal Emmerich

Overheal wrote: »

Turn your ridiculously over-sensitive mouse upside down.

OPs fragile enough without being blinded by the lasers!

marco_polo

http://www.screensaver-network.com/savers/content/USContent1303.html



* Its really probably Wake on lan as per post #4

af_thefragile

johnnybmac wrote: »

Could also be your network card or another piece of hardware...

Full instructions here (Including how to find out what's waking the computer) http://www.cravingtech.com/fix-windows-vista7-sleep-mode-from-waking-up-by-itself.html

My pc is still waking up by itself so I followed the instructions on the link you gave me and this is what I got:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Af>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Device
Instance Path: USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&36206eee&0
Friendly Name:
Description: USB Root Hub
Manufacturer: (Standard USB Host Controller)

C:\Users\Af>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
HID Keyboard Device
ASMedia XHCI Controller
ASMedia XHCI Controller (001)
USB Root Hub (002)
USB Root Hub (003)
Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
HID-compliant mouse (002)


Now I don't know much about computers so all of that makes little sense to me but could ye guys help me figure out what it is that keeps waking my PC back up from sleep and how can I stop it waking my PC up from sleep??

Thanks.

bonzodog2

Try hibernating instead, I find it a lot quicker than a full shutdown/bootup.

af_thefragile

How do you hibernate on Win 7?
I can't find the option anywhere...

bonzodog2

Don't know on W7, in XP its in Power Properties

Slippin Jimmy

af_thefragile wrote: »

How do you hibernate on Win 7?
I can't find the option anywhere...

Go start, beside shut down, click the arrow. Should be there.

af_thefragile

Duffff-Man wrote: »

Go start, beside shut down, click the arrow. Should be there.

Its not there. I've only got "switch user", "log off", "lock", "restart" and "sleep".
There's no option for hibernate.

Might be disabled. Run:

powercfg -h on

from an elevated command prompt.

af_thefragile

Karsini wrote: »

Might be disabled. Run:

powercfg -h on

from an elevated command prompt.

It says I do not have permission to enable or disable hibernate function...
Like I've only got the one account on my pc so its not like I'm working from a guest or non-admin account...

Slippin Jimmy

af_thefragile wrote: »

It says I do not have permission to enable or disable hibernate function...
Like I've only got the one account on my pc so its not like I'm working from a guest or non-admin account...

Does it not give you an option to run as admin?

bonzodog2

Check your drivers. I put XP onto a laptop for someone recently, and it didn't give the hibernate tab in Power Properties until after I'd installed the ACPI driver. Might be worth a look.

af_thefragile

af_thefragile wrote: »

It says I do not have permission to enable or disable hibernate function...
Like I've only got the one account on my pc so its not like I'm working from a guest or non-admin account...

Did you run the command prompt as an admin (via the right-click menu) before sending the command?

af_thefragile

OK, I ran cmd as an admin and typed in that and well... nothing happened.... Everything's still the same...

Yep, getting no response is normal. Do you have the Hibernate option on your Start menu now? It's in the same place as Restart and Sleep.

af_thefragile

Karsini wrote: »

Yep, getting no response is normal. Do you have the Hibernate option on your Start menu now? It's in the same place as Restart and Sleep.

nope, its still the same...

Slippin Jimmy

af_thefragile wrote: »

nope, its still the same...

Hopefully [http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html]this site[/url] will help you.

Capt'n Midnight

Duffff-Man wrote: »

Hopefully [http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html]this site[/url] will help you.

fixed url
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

af_thefragile

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

fixed url
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

I have that selected, still can't see it in the start menu...

ejmaztec

My W7 64 bit system wouldn't go to sleep either, and after trying all instructions known to mankind, I couldn't cure it. I only discovered by accident that it was because I had a USB3 hard-drive caddy connected to the USB3 interface, and this was preventing sleep-mode.

I suppose there's some way of setting USB3 to allow the computer to sleep, but I haven't looked into it yet.

Capt'n Midnight

try it in safe mode to rule out apps

try with ALL perhipherals removed

note WoL packets can wake up network cards , modems can also wake PC's so try without cables if all else fails

really weird would be if it set an alarm to wake itself up, (just mentioning because it's technically possible but totally improbable)

Hal Emmerich

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

try it in safe mode to rule out apps

try with ALL perhipherals removed

note WoL packets can wake up network cards , modems can also wake PC's so try without cables if all else fails

really weird would be if it set an alarm to wake itself up, (just mentioning because it's technically possible but totally improbable)

That looked like a tongue twister but nope....it's not.

Capt'n Midnight

Hal Emmerich wrote: »

That looked like a tongue twister but nope....it's not.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sick sheep.

Hal Emmerich

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sick sheep.