Computer won't sleep at night.

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  1. Posts : 180
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
       #1

    Computer won't sleep at night.


    OK, I'm seeing strange behaviors on my machine...

    My sleep settings are set for 5 minutes for screensaver, 10 minutes to turn the screen off, and after 15 minutes the machine goes to sleep.

    I've edited the system so updates, and everything of the like happen during business hours [8-Cores, it's not going to lag...] and it doesn't have a problem sleeping during the day.

    I'll be up at midnight, 3 in the morning, and MOST of the time, the screen is still on, not even a screensaver, and when it is not, I hear the fan of the CPU, and the power light tells me the machine is running at full power.

    What can I do?
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Try hibernation instead.

    I have it set 10 minutes for display, 30 minutes for sleep, and 45 minutes for hibernation, and it works perfectly.

    Almost forgot Power Plan = Balanced.
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  3. Posts : 180
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Tried that...Failed...
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  4. Posts : 4,566
    Windows 10 Pro
       #4

    Did you take a look at this?

    Sleep and hibernation: frequently asked questions

    Although I am trying to understand. Do you want it to wake from sleep and do the updates and stuff that you have it doing?

    Or do you want to prevent programs from waking your machine up, because that sounds like that is what is happening.

    3am is the default time windows is set for updates and disk defrag and all that general maintence unless you change it. Which it sounds like you have.

    If you see the link above it shows you how to prevent programs from waking the computer.

    Let us know if that was not what you were looking for.
    I might have misunderstood.
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  5. Posts : 180
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    andrew129260 said:
    Did you take a look at this?

    Sleep and hibernation: frequently asked questions

    Although I am trying to understand. Do you want it to wake from sleep and do the updates and stuff that you have it doing?

    Or do you want to prevent programs from waking your machine up, because that sounds like that is what is happening.

    3am is the default time windows is set for updates and disk defrag and all that general maintence unless you change it. Which it sounds like you have.

    If you see the link above it shows you how to prevent programs from waking the computer.

    Let us know if that was not what you were looking for.
    I might have misunderstood.
    As far as I'm aware, I've done all that stuff. I've changed all the updates and stuff like that to happen during the day, so at night the computer just sleeps. It has no reason to wake up during the night.
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  6. Posts : 4,566
    Windows 10 Pro
       #6

    Ok


    JoesMorgue said:
    andrew129260 said:
    Did you take a look at this?

    Sleep and hibernation: frequently asked questions

    Although I am trying to understand. Do you want it to wake from sleep and do the updates and stuff that you have it doing?

    Or do you want to prevent programs from waking your machine up, because that sounds like that is what is happening.

    3am is the default time windows is set for updates and disk defrag and all that general maintence unless you change it. Which it sounds like you have.

    If you see the link above it shows you how to prevent programs from waking the computer.

    Let us know if that was not what you were looking for.
    I might have misunderstood.
    As far as I'm aware, I've done all that stuff. I've changed all the updates and stuff like that to happen during the day, so at night the computer just sleeps. It has no reason to wake up during the night.

    So then disable wake timers as shown in the link
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  7. Posts : 180
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    andrew129260 said:
    JoesMorgue said:
    andrew129260 said:
    Did you take a look at this?

    Sleep and hibernation: frequently asked questions

    Although I am trying to understand. Do you want it to wake from sleep and do the updates and stuff that you have it doing?

    Or do you want to prevent programs from waking your machine up, because that sounds like that is what is happening.

    3am is the default time windows is set for updates and disk defrag and all that general maintence unless you change it. Which it sounds like you have.

    If you see the link above it shows you how to prevent programs from waking the computer.

    Let us know if that was not what you were looking for.
    I might have misunderstood.
    As far as I'm aware, I've done all that stuff. I've changed all the updates and stuff like that to happen during the day, so at night the computer just sleeps. It has no reason to wake up during the night.

    So then disable wake timers as shown in the link
    As far as I can tell, It's not going to sleep to begin with, or even going over to screensaver.
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  8. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #8

    Try setting the screensaver to blank.
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  9. Posts : 180
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    I have not set the screensaver to blank [I likes screensavers, especially the second purpose of to entertain] but I did turn off the wake for scheduled events.

    It does the screensaver, shuts down the screen, but I can hear the CPU fan working at any time of the night...
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  10. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #10

    My understanding is the cpu fan does not care about all those settings. It only comes on with temperatures that indicate the fan is needed. Other than the fan coming on what other indications do you have that the system has woke up.
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