How to Get Win8 CP to sleep properly.

johnpombrio

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I had a couple of major issues when trying to get my desktop to sleep properly in Win8 CP. I finally pinned down the last of the issues and it now works without errors, rebooting, getting hung up, and/or waking my other computers. I will list out the stuff that I needed to do:
Set the BIOS to S3 sleep.
Turn off hibernate in advanced power options.
Kill the mouse and network "let these devices power on the computer" in device manager's properties.
Make sure that the network adapters are allowed to go to sleep in the DM properties.

It was this last one that seemed to do all the damage. By not turning off the network ports, Win8 was trying to come on during sleep when another computer came on the network ( I THINK...). When I let them get powered down, sleep was not interrupted and my HTPC does not come out of sleep any more.
Here are the setting I used:
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit GA
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    i7-4770K Haswell
    Motherboard
    ASUS Z87-PRO
    Memory
    16 GB of Corsair 1866
    Graphics Card(s)
    GTX 780
    Sound Card
    Cooler Master Storm Headphones
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell 27 inch U2711 IPS
    Screen Resolution
    2560 by 1440
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 840 Pro 250GB SSD plus 2 3 TB drives
    PSU
    Corsair-750
    Case
    Corsair White Graphite Series 600T
    Cooling
    Corsair H00i Water
    Keyboard
    Corsair K90
    Mouse
    Logitech G9 Laser
    Internet Speed
    6.3 MBps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    MS
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