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Computer restarts when turning monitors off and on
I usually leave my computer on overnight, I just turn off my two monitors which are daisy-chained. A month ago I noticed that the Computer would turn off / restart overnight. When I turned on the ...
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Windows 7 power button reverts from “sleep” to “shut down” after re-boot
I want the power button on my Windows 7 desktop to put the system to sleep. I can instruct Windows 7 to do this via the Control Panel, and this works, but every time I re-boot, the setting reverts ...
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Laptop restarted by itself
System info:
MSI GS63 7RD (few months old)
Windows 10 v1709
At the time the laptop was connected to 4 external displays (2 of them displaylink)
I left my computer awake on the lock screen. It is ...
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PC sometimes shuts down in sleep
My desktop PC is running Windows 10 64bit. Instead of shutting it down, I'm putting the machine to sleep. In the past 4 years I've never had any issues with that since the PC is powered from a UPS and ...
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Lenovo Laptop Shutdown, sleep and hibernate issues
I have a Lenovo B590 laptop. Its old. I'm having a issue in it.
Windows 10:
When I shutdown the screen turns off but the lights stay on. When I sleep, it doesn't wake up and when I hibernate it, it ...
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Macbook Pro shutting down on its own after sleep
My Macbook Pro 2013 (upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite) keeps shutting down on its own after I put it to sleep by closing the lid. It used to be that this happened a few hours after I closed it--...
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Windows 7 problems when relying on "sleep mode" rather than shutting down
After not restarting/shutting down the computer for about a week (I just leave it in sleep mode when not using it), a huge performance drop occurs. Any application loads very slowly, and apparently ...
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Disallow shutdown/sleep/restart on OSX?
Is it possible to disable shutdown, sleep and restart for non-admin user on Mac OS X? (I am running Snow Leopard.)
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Why Windows 10 won't wake up from prolonged sleep (or hibernate or shutdown) conditions?
I have a ThinkPad T420 running Windows 10 with this characteristics:
CPU: Core i5 2520m
RAM: 16 GB Crucial
Graphics: Intel HD and NVIDIA NVS 4200
Storages:
SAMSUNG SSD EVO 850 (as OS disk in a ...
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Computer freezes a few moments after startup and wake from sleep (not all the time, but often)
My computer has been freezing a few minutes after start up or wake from sleep, and I have to force shut down and turn it on before my PC will work again. Reliability history shows no error that comes ...
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Windows 10 laptop shuts down instead of sleep
For the past few days, my Acer laptop keeps shutting down whenever I close the lid or when I try to put it to sleep. When I choose "sleep" and I close the lid, and when I open it again, it takes a ...
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Sometimes, my PC don't turn off after shutting down
When shutting down, hibernate or going to sleep, sometimes the power supply remains on (I can hear the fan). I must turn it off by pressing and holding the on/off button for 5 seconds. If it went to ...
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Computer restarts itself
Problem description:
On shutdown -> After shutting down the pc, the power-LED starts blinking some minutes until the computer restarts itself. Everytime the power-LED blinks, the fan start moving ...
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Laptop doesn't shut down completely / goes to sleep. Reboot, however, works as intended.
My my machine is Lenovo Z580a laptop.
My problems is that when i shut down my laptop (using Start > Power > Shut Down) i first get spinning windows circle, then screen goes black like it normally ...
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converting all shutdown requests to sleep requests
My Windows 10 home desktop computer has a broken power button. I have already had 3 different occasions where I was messing around with cables, power outlets and slightly shifting my PC so the power ...
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