PC won't sleep - have tried EVERYTHING I KNOW OF.

[MamaBear2017]

Windows 8.1 Won't go to sleep automatically

I've done quite a bit a research and nothing seems to support my case. My computer will GO to sleep and STAY asleep if I ask it to as in, I manually put the computer to sleep. But if I don't manually put it to sleep, it won't go to sleep, only the monitors turn off and the computer is still running. I checked powercfg and it doesn't say anything is keeping my system from sleeping. I also checked all my power options and all of them are set to sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity. “


I have the same issued and have literally tried EVERYTHING. ALL the above. ( except BIOS - cant imagine how that would be causing this? ) I have no file sharing set up. I've checked every powercfg option and even did one where you run a power report that generates an html file. I have the file and there are errors, I think, but nothing that could do this. Help would be appreciated.

From just now: ( and the /energy test doesn't show anything that would keep it awake either! )
BUT every time I do a Windows update, it will go to sleep automatically for maybe a few hours or a day, then go right back to not automatically sleeping again! This is driving me bat crazy!

 

[MamaBear2017]

Think I finally got to the bottom of this.

I had to allow selective suspend, then run powercfg /energy again.

I don't know why the resulting energy-report file is so hard to work with. The only browser I could even view it with was Chome.

It cant be copied or sent as an attachment.

Anyway, here's what I got with the latest test now - the meat of it:

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[TD="class: detail-name"]Scan Time[/TD]
[TD]2017-12-28T04:42:21Z[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Scan Duration[/TD]
[TD]60 seconds[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]System Manufacturer[/TD]
[TD]ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]System Product Name[/TD]
[TD]M52BC_M32BC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]BIOS Date[/TD]
[TD]12/11/2014[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]BIOS Version[/TD]
[TD]0303[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]OS Build[/TD]
[TD]9600[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Platform Role[/TD]
[TD]PlatformRoleDesktop[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Plugged In[/TD]
[TD]true[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Process Count[/TD]
[TD]96[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Thread Count[/TD]
[TD]1248[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: detail-name"]Report GUID[/TD]
[TD]{ff20705e-ba81-49ce-a0af-432e462e1c12}[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[h=3]Analysis Results[/h][h=4]Errors[/h]System Availability Requests:System Required Request
The device or driver has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep.

Requesting Driver Instance	HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_104385C9&REV_1003\4&10f948d2&0&0001
Requesting Driver Device	Realtek High Definition Audio

System Availability Requests:System Required Request
The device or driver has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep.

Requesting Driver Instance	BTHENUM\{0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_LOCALMFG&005d\7&6dbe9dd&0&00023C414960_C00000000
Requesting Driver Device	Realtek Bluetooth A2dp Device

Now the question becomes what can be done about it, and whether Realtek gives a hoot, or has any better drivers?

These are apparently NOT settings I can get to, to change them.