Windows 7 will not goto sleep automatically - sometimes!

Hello Ken,

And thank you for your reply.

This is very odd (my computer, I mean). I have my BIOS set to S3, and the control panel settings are the same as yours. Oh well, I'll keep on investigating. Thanks for your trouble by posting the screenie of your CP power setting. :)


Hi Lehnerus,

haha, not only are you a compatriot, we also got into the whole thing at approx 1984! I only bought a mobile phone early last year, and only because of my job's circumstances. And the phone HAD to resemble a computer, so I got an Android-based phone. A pure phone for me, just would not do. Just not cricket.

Seriously, though, yours is top advice. There have been times where I've had to google for the same thing two or three times. Had I kept a record, it would have been just the one google. Come Ivy Bridge, I'm going to implement this practice.

You might try running "powercfg -requests" from the Prompt Command window when the system should be in the S3 State. That is what gave me a hint of what was keeping my problem system from occasionally not entering the automatic sleep state.

Oh cool, thanks! I'll check it out in a short while. (PS. I've got a Gigabyte board - I didn't make that clear in my previous post). I'm sure I've done something very simple and I just keep overlooking it.