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Sleep mode is a low-power state designed to provide very fast resuming of a computer's operation, with minimal power consumption.

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Screen goes grey after coming back from Sleep

I've been getting a strange error lately. When I put my computer in sleep mode and recover from it, the screen goes gray. I am then obligated to force-reboot (holding the power button) my computer. ...
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Windows 10 Kernel-Power 41 error after go to sleep

I have a recurring problem with my ASUS G56JR notebook under Windows 10, somehow the the system crashes after to go sleep. When I awake it, the eventlog shows the following: I read a guys problem in ...
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My laptop seems to be stuck in a low power mode

My asus vivobook was asleep. I tried to wake it up but before anything appeared on the screen I changed my mind and started to hard shut it off. While I was holding the power button I noticed the ...
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Having issues with dark wakes due to EC.RTC/Maintenance and EC.RTC/SleepService

Usually, using pmset -g log | grep -e "Wake from" -e "DarkWake" -e "due", I get 1 one darkwake every 8-10 hours on my mac. However, last night, I was getting 1 every 2 ...
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loginctl-hooks + slock not working as expected

I have openrc init system and I want to lock my loginctl session with slock on running loginctl suspend. I am using the loginctl hooks for the purpose. loginctl man page : Hook directories [/usr]/lib[...
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All USB devices go to sleep in idle mode on Windows 7

A strange thing happened after a few updates to the system: Intel rapid storage SSD firmware update Intel Ethernet adapter update GPU Intel update When the computer turns off the screen (after five ...
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Stop Windows 11 from waking when plugging in/out

So I just bought a new asus vivobook and I noticed an issue, that it is perfectly fine if I close the lid to put it to sleep (either plugged in or out) , but whenever there is an event of either ...
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YouTube won't let my PC sleep

I see that there are many people looking for a way to prevent sleeping when they are watching a video, like this one. I am sorta opposite. With the help of powercfg -requests I have determined that ...
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Incorrect reading of battery status after wake up (linux only)

My computer is a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2. OS is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed / Slowroll, dual boot system with Windows 11. I am having this issue since around February. In Windows everything works fine, but ...
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No sleep or hibernate options on my Windows 7 PC

I've been looking around and couldn't find the right answer to fix my problem. I build my computer today from scratch, but for some reason the Sleep & Hibernate options are disabled and won't let ...
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Task Scheduler Windows 11 not waking the computer

I know that variations of this have been asked previously and I have read most of the responses to older threads. However I am using a newer OS and those older threads have helped me get this far but ...
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Turn off Windows screen without locking screen in Windows 11

I usually have my computers set up to require a login after waking up from sleep or hibernate, but I don't want to enter a password if the screen is just turned off, either from a timeout or if I ...
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Laptop Keyboard disabled after suspend or sleep Debian 12, How do i fix it?

My Dell laptop has Debian 12, every after I suspend or sleep the laptop the keyboard is disabled when I wake it back. even after using on-screen keyboard to log in, it stays disabled. I tried changing ...
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Can I run my MacBook in clamshell mode without being connected to power?

At home, I run my MacBook in clamshell mode (closed lid, external display). This works fine when you're connected to the power adapter, but it doesn't work when running on battery. That's how it's ...
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Preventing closed Macbook from sleeping at startup

I have an old Macbook that I'm going to be tucking in a cabinet for use as a media server. It's currently running InsomniaX to keep it from sleeping when the lid is shut. This works great when I ...

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