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Laptop shuts down instead of going into sleep mode when I send it to sleep
I'm using an Asus laptop. It's more than a year old. This has been going on for maybe a month. I've looked into all the basic settings but can't find what's causing the problem. Here are the settings: ...
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Computer waking up from sleep by itself
My PC, running Windows 8.1, is waking up from sleep by itself.
I have wake-up timers disabled:
And there should be no hardware that is allowed to wake my device:
In the second picture, we do see ...
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Laptop waking up from sleep because of "power button"? (Windows 8.1)
My computer is brand new but has a serious problem - it wakes up from sleep mode on its own in the middle of the night, usually a couple hours after I put it into sleep mode. This problem is ...
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Windows 8.1 Laptop; Is there a way for closed lid to cause sleep but not when there is a monitor hooked up?
Is it possible to make a laptop sleep when the lid is closed UNLESS there is an external monitor that is plugged in? Perhaps a registry hack or third party software?
The control panel power settings ...
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Delay sleep/login page when closing laptop lid on Windows?
I want to be able to close my laptop lid, but not have the laptop got to sleep for a set amount of time (e.g. 5 minutes). If I open the laptop in that time, it bring be back to where I was without a ...
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USB devices not waking PC from sleep on windows 8.1
I have a new build based on MSI H97M-g43 motherboard.
None of USB devices are able to wake the PC back from S3 sleep.
Two methods that do wake up the PC are the power button and wake timers.
The usb ...
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How to find out what's causing a laptop to take too long to go to sleep?
Until recently my laptop took at most around 5 seconds to go to sleep when the lid is closed. This was the case for several months. Recently however, my laptop takes around 2 minutes (maybe more) to ...
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Computer hibernates when I tell it to sleep
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When I tell my computer to sleep, it hibernates instead of sleeping. This occurs regardless of whether I tell it to sleep using the button on my keyboard or using the UI. Interestingly, when ...
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Close lid to sleep just about and open lid to wake up asap without requiring password if done soon enough
I am sure at some point this tablet-like laptop was doing the thing I've briefly described in the title. That is, within the first couple of months that I've started using this thing.
I am using a ...
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