Computer won't automatically sleep

[Oifish]

When I first built this rig it would sleep automatically after 45min like I set it to. Now it will only sleep if I tell it to. I have checked the power options and everything is set correctly. Are there other settings I should check? Sorry if this is very generic but I really have no idea where to start troubleshooting.

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe a USB device is keeping it awake. Some ports are hot, and a mouse or wifi adapter will keep it awake. Is everything plugged into the same port it was before?

 

[Oifish]

hmm.. I have jumbled around the USB ports. I'm pretty sure the external HDD has stayed in the same port, but I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse.

 

[lxskllr]

I pulled up your mb manual, and it looks like all the usb ports are the same. Maybe try setting sleep to a very short interval(1 minute if possible), and then reboot if it still doesn't work. Setting it to a short period is just to see if it works in a timely manner. It doesn't matter for functionality. Windows maybe just needs a kick in the ass to start working right :^D

 

[JackMDS]

Indexing and Backup applications can contribute to this as well.

Pings from the Network, if the NIC is allowed to wake the computer on traffic, can do it too.

 

[notposting]

Do you have USB keyboard/mouse. Finally went USB for my wife's machine and lo and behold, the dirty little ah heck wouldn't sleep. Went into Device properties and unchecked the "let this device wake the computer" or whatever it is button.

Of course I couldn't get it to go to sleep--it would power down and immediately resume. As Jack said, NICs can do it too.

 

[SimMike2]

While sleep works good on notebooks, really saving energy, sleep mode on my homemade desktop doesn't save hardly any energy. This is because all the fans and power supply stays on in sleep mode. Hibernation really saves energy. Maybe I can go into my Gigabyte BIOS and adjust the settings, but I haven't tried just yet.

You also have to turn off "event timers" waking up the computer in Windows 7.

 

[RebateMonger]

While sleep works good on notebooks, really saving energy, sleep mode on my homemade desktop doesn't save hardly any energy.

It sounds like you haven't used Vista's or Win7's sleep modes with fully compliant hardware. The PC goes awfully dead. Mice and keyboard stay powered so the machine can be awakened, and memory power is maintained, but that's about it.

Windows has the "Powercfg" command to analyze sleep issues. I used it last week to determine (and fix) why my new Win7 PC wouldn't wake back up froom Sleep Mode:

http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-diagnose-powermgt.html

 

[nickbits]

While sleep works good on notebooks, really saving energy, sleep mode on my homemade desktop doesn't save hardly any energy. This is because all the fans and power supply stays on in sleep mode. Hibernation really saves energy. Maybe I can go into my Gigabyte BIOS and adjust the settings, but I haven't tried just yet.

You also have to turn off "event timers" waking up the computer in Windows 7.

S3 sleep only uses a couple watts and all fans are off.

S1 sleep still uses a lot of power and the fans stay on.

 

[Oifish]

I pulled up your mb manual, and it looks like all the usb ports are the same. Maybe try setting sleep to a very short interval(1 minute if possible), and then reboot if it still doesn't work. Setting it to a short period is just to see if it works in a timely manner. It doesn't matter for functionality. Windows maybe just needs a kick in the ass to start working right :^D

Ok tried that, but no changes.

It sounds like you haven't used Vista's or Win7's sleep modes with fully compliant hardware. The PC goes awfully dead. Mice and keyboard stay powered so the machine can be awakened, and memory power is maintained, but that's about it.

Windows has the "Powercfg" command to analyze sleep issues. I used it last week to determine (and fix) why my new Win7 PC wouldn't wake back up froom Sleep Mode:

http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-d...-powermgt.html

powercfg- requests said: "[DRIVER] Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM) (PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_00211102&REV_00\4&278ccf74&0&10F0)
An audio stream is currently in use.

AWAYMODE:
None."

Odd I don't stream any audio/video and itunes is closed...

 

[Oifish]

anyone?

 

[KeypoX]

take out Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic w/ Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 and try again...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...avclient-ff&rlz=1B7GGLL_enUS369US369&ie=UTF-8

 

[Oifish]

take out Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic w/ Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 and try again...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...avclient-ff&rlz=1B7GGLL_enUS369US369&ie=UTF-8

Yep, that was it. I disabled the card and it went to sleep without a problem. Is there any way to fix this, because I really like this sound card...