Solved Computer Wont sleep

Mitchell

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Hi,
After updating from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 my PC doesn't seem to want to sleep.

I've done some googling and cant really find anything. I found a command prompt thing I should do. I did that and it said nothing was keeping my computer awake.

Any advice or ideas?

Thanks,
Mitch
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 duo E7200 @2.53GHz 2.27GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP43DS3
    Memory
    4GB Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
Sorry but bump.
I know not much info has been included, but i dont know what should be included.

Edit: I ran powercfg -energy, and it came up with some errors. it gives me a link to show the error. It opens up IE and says the page does not exsits. Any idea?? Type the address heaps of times
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 duo E7200 @2.53GHz 2.27GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP43DS3
    Memory
    4GB Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
I manged to open it up in note pad, but don't understand what it says D:
 

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 duo E7200 @2.53GHz 2.27GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP43DS3
    Memory
    4GB Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
I don't know what I did.
I was stuffing around with some settings and the problem seemed to fix itself
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 duo E7200 @2.53GHz 2.27GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP43DS3
    Memory
    4GB Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
Saw a similar problem reported recently where the problem was corrected by exiting Homegroup and disabling the Homegroup services, then using Workgroup to access local network. Had to reboot after these changes and sleep worked.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
The energy report is an HTML file. Please do not attach it as a .txt file. You can zip it and attach it correctly, but it is almost impossible to read as a Text file.

Edit: Never mind, I changed the extension to .html and it looks fine. But you seem to be running uTorrent, and I have no idea how it interacts with the system. The command you may want to run is powercfg /requests to see what might be keeping it alive. The Windows 8.1 update seems to set up a homegroup without your permission, so it might be involved, but I am seeing srvnet indications on my system.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Grown
    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
Mitchell, the reason why the energy report HTML file wouldn't open is because you opened it up in the Windows System folder, which has administrative limitations. Copy and paste the file on your desktop, and reopen from there. Worked for me. I have the same issue, fyi and am in the midst of solving it with Dell. Will let everyone know on this site, among others, how I fixed this.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 12
    CPU
    Intel i5 1.7 GHz
    Memory
    4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    McAfee Internet Security
I've been playing around with the "computer won't sleep" issue for several days now. Tried just about everything I've seen suggested on this and other forums to no avail. What finally worked was pure, dumb luck because I'm no "techie". I've found that if I go to the Control Panel, Power Options, selected the Balanced plan, went to "change plan settings" and set the times I wanted in both options and THEN went to Advanced Power Settings and hit the + button by "Sleep" and then set the time there to agree with what I'd set under Power Options, that it would sleep automatically just fine. The key here seemed to be making the two times agree because it will not happen automatically on my computer, anyhow, unless the two times are identical. This is, by the way, 8.1 upgraded from 8.0 on an ASUS desktop.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
Thank you Jayhawker for the exciting new revelation! I will try it ASAP when I come home tonight.

Did your computer fail to sleep automatically ONLY? Or is it like mine, whereby it fails to sleep automatically, or when instructed by closing the laptop lid, AND refuses to shutdown when I request it to shutdown from Windows?

Mine basically just blacks out the screen and becomes unresponsive, but still on. The fan is still humming away, and keyboard backlight, LEDs etc still on. Only way to get out of it is by hard reset by holding down the power button. Thanks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 12
    CPU
    Intel i5 1.7 GHz
    Memory
    4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    McAfee Internet Security
My desktop would shut off the monitor at any time I set it to do so. It just wouldn't sleep until I made the two times mentioned agree with one another. Hope this works for some folks because Google is loaded with queries about this.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
But what I was asking is, did your computer FULLY SHUTDOWN when you selected shutdown in Windows, before you fixed this problem?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 12
    CPU
    Intel i5 1.7 GHz
    Memory
    4Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    McAfee Internet Security
I don't understand why the settings are different in the two locations. Changing one should change both.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
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