Will not auto-sleep

[Guest]

Vista will not go to sleep automatically. The screen turn dark but machine
will not sleeep. Even after a clean re-start.

If I manually press the sleep button on the keyboard it works fine.

Why will it not auto-sleep

 

[Terry]

On 4/12/2007 12:00 PM On a whim, Paul pounded out on the keyboard

Vista will not go to sleep automatically. The screen turn dark but machine
will not sleeep. Even after a clean re-start.

If I manually press the sleep button on the keyboard it works fine.

Why will it not auto-sleep

You need a bigger sledge hammer ;-)

Check the power settings to verify the length of time before sleep is to
occur. Is this an upgraded computer or a new computer? Possibly legacy
hardware is preventing it also.

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[Guest]

If I set it to 2 minutes or 1 hours it does not matter.

It is a brand new Vista based PC. Infact I have 4 of them!

 

[Terry]

On 4/12/2007 2:40 PM On a whim, Paul pounded out on the keyboard

If I set it to 2 minutes or 1 hours it does not matter.

It is a brand new Vista based PC. Infact I have 4 of them!

It could be a program that is running. I would start looking at
programs that you have installed. see what ones run processes and
disable them one at a time see if you can track down what it is. It
could also be a driver problem. I'm not sure if power settings are
active in Safe Mode, but try it and see if sleep occurs in Safe Mode.
If it does, it is probably a driver preventing it.

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[Guest]

If I click the sleep button it sleeps. It I let it do it automatically it
does not. same programs must be running.

I can re-boot and not open anything and the result is the same.

 

[Francois]

Do you have you sidebar up? And if so do you have the analog clock?

That kept my machine from sleeping or in fact going into the screen saver...

Francois

 

[Guest]

I turned off the Media Cener's updates and that seems to have done the trick
(so far)