cookeys
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| [WIN7] Standby mode. Is it just a dream?
So I had Vista for a year and a half. On a clean installation, standby mode worked for awhile. But it did not take much to get it to stop working. I was hoping that Win7 would be better, but that does not seem to be the case. Here's what I've gotten installed so far:
Acronis True Image 2010
SnagIt 9.1.3
SocialSafe (Includes Adobe Air)
Adobe Acrobat Flash
Roboform with GoodSync
Foxit PDF Reader
Belkin USB Hub Control Center
Firefox
I had no problems until the other day, when I installed Foxit and Firefox. Since then my computer has only been willing to go into standby sporadically. The screensaver always comes on.
Any ideas on how I can diagose it? I've been trying to look through the event viewer, but without luck.
I checked msconfig to see what is set to run at startup. None of these are new:
Acronis Schedule Helper
Acronis True Image
Belkin Network USB Hub Control Center
As you can see, I don't have much installed or set to run at startup.
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Matt
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| There are lots of ways. I finally nailed mine down after replacing my nVidia card this weekend and whadda know, my computer now sleeps and stays asleep.
Anyway, try this from a command prompt:
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
That will show all devices that are capable of waking the machine.
Then type the following:
powercfg -lastwake
That will show you what woke your machine last time.
Let us know what it shows and we can go from there.
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cookeys
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| Thanks. I get this:
PCI Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP
HID Keyboard Device
Intel(R) 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
HID Keyboard Device (001)
HID-compliant mouse
HID-compliant mouse (001)
When I type powercfg -lastwake, I get:
Wake History Count - 0 |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | Have you rebooted since your machine last went to sleep? |
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cookeys
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clubs: | Yup. I turned it on this evening when I got home from work. |
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Matt
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| said by cookeys  :Yup. I turned it on this evening when I got home from work. You'll need to run that -lastwake command immediately after it wakes unexpectedly. It doesn't seem to retain that information across reboots.
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cookeys
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clubs: | It's not that it's waking unexpectedly. It's never going to sleep. I have my computer set up with a password, and it has to be entered at login and once it wakes up. It is never ending up at the login screen. So it's never going to sleep. |
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Matt
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| said by cookeys :It's not that it's waking unexpectedly. It's never going to sleep. I have my computer set up with a password, and it has to be entered at login and once it wakes up. It is never ending up at the login screen. So it's never going to sleep. Oops, I apologize. I totally misunderstood. Post back the results of the powercfg -requests command. That should catch any software that may prevent sleep.
If you get none for each category, one of the following devices is likely keeping your machine from sleeping:
PCI Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP
HID Keyboard Device
Intel(R) 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
HID Keyboard Device (001)
HID-compliant mouse
HID-compliant mouse (001)
I would place my money on the fax modem, but the NIC is frequently the cuplrit too. Go into device manager and on one of the tabs is a setting to "Allow this device to wake the computer," try disabling that.
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cookeys
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clubs: | This is what I get when running it:
DISPLAY:
None.
SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] \FileSystem\srvnet
An active remote client has recently sent requests to this machine.
AWAYMODE:
None. |
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Matt
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| Ah ha. Try disabling the ability of your NIC to wake the computer and see if that helps. You can change your power plan temporarily to sleep after 1 minute to see if it even tries to sleep. You may find that it tries but immediately comes out, thus not engaging the password prompt?
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cookeys
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clubs: | I disabled everything except the mouse and it still won't go to sleep. |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | Do you have file sharing enabled and do you have folders configured for sharing and/or Homegroups enabled?
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cookeys
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clubs: | I just undid all the file sharing stuff. It seems to do all that by default. |
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Matt
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| said by cookeys :I just undid all the file sharing stuff. It seems to do all that by default. Will it still not go to sleep?
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cookeys
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| said by Matt :said by cookeys :I just undid all the file sharing stuff. It seems to do all that by default. Will it still not go to sleep? Nope.  It goes into screen saver just fine, but it will not go to sleep. |
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Matt
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| said by cookeys :said by Matt :said by cookeys :I just undid all the file sharing stuff. It seems to do all that by default. Will it still not go to sleep? Nope. It goes into screen saver just fine, but it will not go to sleep. Post the output from a powercfg -a for me.
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cookeys
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| Here you go:
The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby ( S1 S3 ) Hiber
nate Hybrid Sleep
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Not sure what the second message means. It was sleeping just fine up until a couple of days ago. |
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Matt
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1 edit | That looks good, S1 and S3 are the most common. I had never even heard of S2 until I started trying to track down my sleep issues.
The last thing I can think of to try is to go into your power plan, change your advanced power plan settings, click change settings that are unavailable, and disable hybrid sleep and allow wake timers.
You may want to reboot for good measure if it doesn't sleep after changing those. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas. Hopefully some of the big brains in here will come along with ideas of where to look.
EDIT:
One more setting. At the very bottom is "Multimedia Settings." Change when sharing media to allow the computer to sleep.
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jeffster1970
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My vista machine never slept...I gave up after a while. I ended up putting Linux on a partition if I needed it to sleep..that worked. I never had those issues with XP, btw. |
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cookeys
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I uninstalled everything that I installed before the problem and rebooted. It seems to be working once again. I'm not saying that fixed the problem, and I will do more experimentation to figure out if it really did. I can't imagine something like firefox causing the problem. Weird. |
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