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Old September 27th 17, 05:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
OREALLY
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in my
power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius

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Old September 27th 17, 08:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
philo
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

On 09/27/2017 11:27 AM, OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in
my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius




Look in Power Management advanced settings
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Old September 27th 17, 08:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
OREALLY
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

It's set to NEVER!

"philo" wrote in message news
On 09/27/2017 11:27 AM, OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in
my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius




Look in Power Management advanced settings
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Old September 27th 17, 09:22 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in
my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius


I don't have any canned answers for this one.

1) There is a tick box in some backup utilities, to
shut down the computer when the backup is complete.
Would that option cause the computer to sleep ?
Probably not.

2) The computer can shut down on THERMTRIP if
the computer CPU overheats. But that's a dirty shutdown
and doesn't look like Sleep either. You would lose
the current session, and see a clean desktop at
next startup. That doesn't match your symptoms either.

My problem is, I don't know of a way to get to
"Sleep" state with one of these ideas.

The "powercfg.exe" utility has an option for LastWake.
It remembers what woke up the computer (if you're having
problems with the computer springing back to life). But,
I'm not aware of that utility doing anything for sleep
problems. And I don't think the energy option would
know the answer either. But that utility, is the closest
thing on Windows, to a useful tool for these problems.
Even if it doesn't cover every possibility.

Paul
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Old September 27th 17, 09:59 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
al
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

On 9/27/2017 12:27 PM, OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in
my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius



https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w7itprogeneral
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Old September 27th 17, 11:09 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

al wrote:
On 9/27/2017 12:27 PM, OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set
in my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep
mode nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius



https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w7itprogeneral


And I found there is an option in Powercfg

powercfg /sleepstudy

Even though the description is a bit terse. I selected
Sleep from a system menu, and it listed the source
of the sleep request as "Application API". On purpose,
I used the Power Button on the front of the machine,
and the report does put the "Power Button" as the
reason for wakeup. That was to help me verify
I was on the correct line in the report.

https://s26.postimg.org/yiwyb4jzd/Sleep_Study.gif

Paul
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Old September 28th 17, 05:31 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
OREALLY
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Default Windows goes to sleep !

Thanks for your reply!

"Paul" wrote in message news
OREALLY wrote:
My HP Windows 7 Desktop goes to sleep due to system idle. I have set in
my power plan for it NEVER to go to sleep,
yet after a few minutes when running backups it will go into sleep mode
nevertheless!

How can I keep the system awake?

Orealius


I don't have any canned answers for this one.

1) There is a tick box in some backup utilities, to
shut down the computer when the backup is complete.
Would that option cause the computer to sleep ?
Probably not.

2) The computer can shut down on THERMTRIP if
the computer CPU overheats. But that's a dirty shutdown
and doesn't look like Sleep either. You would lose
the current session, and see a clean desktop at
next startup. That doesn't match your symptoms either.

My problem is, I don't know of a way to get to
"Sleep" state with one of these ideas.

The "powercfg.exe" utility has an option for LastWake.
It remembers what woke up the computer (if you're having
problems with the computer springing back to life). But,
I'm not aware of that utility doing anything for sleep
problems. And I don't think the energy option would
know the answer either. But that utility, is the closest
thing on Windows, to a useful tool for these problems.
Even if it doesn't cover every possibility.

Paul
 




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