Computer won't sleep

It will turn off the monitor but won't go into standby

spdracer said:

It will turn off the monitor but won't go into standby

Hi and welcome


If you click sleep on the start menu what happpens?

Could we get some computer info?

What power plan are you uswing (hi perf, balanced, etc)?


Ken j+

My first response to this is always the same. Did you look under Power Options/advanced setting/multimedia settings/when sharing media/setting

change to allow computer to sleep.

I really dislike the fact that MS has this set to prevent sleep by default.

Otherwise check to see if their is a updated video card driver for your system. Nice monitor by the way that things a beast.

zigzag3143 said:

spdracer said:

It will turn off the monitor but won't go into standby

Hi and welcome


If you click sleep on the start menu what happpens?

Could we get some computer info?

What power plan are you uswing (hi perf, balanced, etc)?


Ken j+

If I click on sleep from the start menu it goes into sleep mode. I'm using the high performance setting

kellymac35 said:

Hello spdracer, I Also built my computer. Been up and running about a year and a half now. Just last night I got to messing around in my bios and noticed under power managment two settings S1 or S3. Mine was set to S1 and would get the same results as you, Monitor would shut down but not the computer. I change settings to S3 and that did the trick. Also if you change to S3 you must indicate how your computer will be waken. Hope this works for you.

Made these changes,will report back my findings

zone23 said:

My first response to this is always the same. Did you look under Power Options/advanced setting/multimedia settings/when sharing media/setting

change to allow computer to sleep.

I really dislike the fact that MS has this set to prevent sleep by default.

Otherwise check to see if their is a updated video card driver for your system. Nice monitor by the way that things a beast.

Made these changes,latest video drivers are installed. Will report my results

If the Power Options front screen shows Sleep removed from the window (just Display) then it is video card driver needing Updating/reinstalling.

Settings mentioned are all involved too, as are any wake timers and Power Management tabs on Mouse or Keyboard devices allowing wakeups.

Tried all the above suggestions,still no luck

Did this happen suddenly or ever since install?

spdracer said:

If I click on sleep from the start menu it goes into sleep mode. I'm using the high performance setting

Try Balanced Plan and accept defaults given.

If it sleeps when you click on Sleep then it is the timers and they may not work in High Perf since that is full-bore everything.