Maintainin
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Man....talk about a pain in the @ss....
I installed windows 8 on Friday and have been fiddling with it all weekend. One thing I noticed is that the pc would not go to sleep. Fiddled with the power options and made sure everything is set right in the bios acpi settings(set to S3, otherwise known as standby, sleep, or suspend to ram). But it would not go to sleep at the scheduled time I set in power options. Setting the power button to put it to sleep and pressing it simply caused the pc to go to sleep for about two seconds and then start right back up.
So I figured something must be preventing it from going and staying alseep. Did some reading and came across a handy command prompt command:
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
This command lists devices that are currently configured to wake the computer from any sleep state. I had three devices come back. The mouse, the keyboard, and the nic card. I unplugged the mouse and keyboard USB dongle and tried putting it back to sleep. Still didn't work . The pc came right back on again after a couple of seconds. I then went into the nic card properties and disabled the wake on LAN. BINGO! The computer went to and stayed asleep. And then came the next problem.
Trying to resume from sleep resulted in the computer basically restarting again from boot. It acts like its going to come back up, and then promptly reboots and my graphics card fans spin at full speed for like 5 seconds. So did some more reading and came across this command:
Powercfg.exe /hibernate off
That commands disables hibernation and it fixed it. It now sleeps and resumes like it should. Don't ask me why disabling hibernation fixed it considering I didn't have it set to hibernate anywhere I could find, but it did.
Just thought I'd share. thanks!
I installed windows 8 on Friday and have been fiddling with it all weekend. One thing I noticed is that the pc would not go to sleep. Fiddled with the power options and made sure everything is set right in the bios acpi settings(set to S3, otherwise known as standby, sleep, or suspend to ram). But it would not go to sleep at the scheduled time I set in power options. Setting the power button to put it to sleep and pressing it simply caused the pc to go to sleep for about two seconds and then start right back up.
So I figured something must be preventing it from going and staying alseep. Did some reading and came across a handy command prompt command:
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
This command lists devices that are currently configured to wake the computer from any sleep state. I had three devices come back. The mouse, the keyboard, and the nic card. I unplugged the mouse and keyboard USB dongle and tried putting it back to sleep. Still didn't work . The pc came right back on again after a couple of seconds. I then went into the nic card properties and disabled the wake on LAN. BINGO! The computer went to and stayed asleep. And then came the next problem.
Trying to resume from sleep resulted in the computer basically restarting again from boot. It acts like its going to come back up, and then promptly reboots and my graphics card fans spin at full speed for like 5 seconds. So did some more reading and came across this command:
Powercfg.exe /hibernate off
That commands disables hibernation and it fixed it. It now sleeps and resumes like it should. Don't ask me why disabling hibernation fixed it considering I didn't have it set to hibernate anywhere I could find, but it did.
Just thought I'd share. thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro 64 bit