sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again. Putting your computer into the sleep state is like pausing a DVD player—the computer immediately stops what it’s doing and is ready to ...
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Windows 7 not waking from sleep from USB keyboard through KVM
I have an IO Gear GS1204G (nice KVM) that I use to control one each of Windows 7 64bit, Ubuntu Linux, Mac, and ChromeOS computers. This KVM emulates the presence of the keyboard at all times, so it ...
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Laptop wakes from sleep, once, due to audio controller (Windows 7)
The laptop is a recent Dell XPS 15z and the problem is as follows (reproducible about 90% of tries):
put laptop to sleep using either Start->Sleep or closing the lid
laptop goes to sleep after about ...
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How to put an individual USB port to sleep?
I have a few external drives that i don't always use and want to be able to have them shutdown when i am not using them. They shutdown when the computer goes into sleep mode but I would like to be ...
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GNU/Linux: sleep-like mode
I'm using GNU/Linux on my netbook and I have my own Apache server, I want to make it won't stop when I'm making my netbook sleep.
Is this possible to still run processes when computer is in ...
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Windows 7 has trouble reconnecting to wireless network when waking up
I am somewhat-supporting a laptop that connects to a wireless router via WiFi. When the laptop is resumed from "sleep" mode, the network connection is often gone. Someone on site has reported that ...
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shortcut to put monitors to sleep [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Turn off display in Windows 7 without additional software
I have windows 7 installed with two monitors connected to it.
I want to create a shortcut that will put both ...
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IdeaPad Y570 Wakes Up when Closed?
I have a Y570 that will wake up from sleep when the lid is closed. At first I thought the touchpad was too sensitive, and it was sensing the lid closing, so I disabled the touchpad, sleep'd it, and ...
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HDD Disappears after sleep mode
I recently purchased a HDD and it works fine except if I go into sleep mode. Every time my computers comes out of sleep mode the HDD disappears completely. I have literally tried EVERYTHING to fix ...
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Black screen when macbook returns from sleep
I have a macbookpro unibody late 2008 15p and use OS X Lion, 10.7.3. I use always an external monitor and close the lid. When I finish my work day I put the macbook in sleep mode and it switches off. ...
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Computer goes into uninterruptable sleep
I've got a friends computer that randomly goes into what seems to be a "sleep", but it doesn't respond to keyboard/mouse input. Like a bad little techie, I did absolutely no prior research, but ...
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Find out what standby/sleep mode I'm under when on Windows 7
How can I find out which standby/sleep mode I'm under (S1, S2 or S3) when on Windows 7? My BIOS does not have such a setting.
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What subsystems are operational when a computer is at sleep mode?
Is it only the RAM, a RAM controller, and perhaps a BUS controller related to RAM controller and a Power system? I assume the CPU is dead, because that might require cooling. And I don't see any ...
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Ubuntu server 11.10 keeps going into power save mode
I have a clean ubuntu server install that keeps going into sleep mode if it receives no requests for a while and the only way to wake it up is to physically press the power button. I can't imagine ...
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Macbook restarts when closing lid
Recently I built an SSD (128GB Samsung 470) into a late 2007 Macbook, and swapped the old HDD with the Superdrive, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer the system, Desktop, Applications, Library and ...
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Are there any tools for Windows that will point out unseen issues related to starting after putting your laptop into sleep or hibernate?
It seems to me that my laptop runs slower after I've started it up again after putting it to sleep or making it hibernate.
Are there any tools that will analyze unseen problems that bringing your ...
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What happens when computer goes into Sleep (Suspend ) mode when the RAM is full
When the computer goes to sleep or suspend mode, the state of the OS and all the processes are stored in your PC's Random Access Memory (RAM)
What if the RAM (physical or virtual or both) are maxed ...
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Windows 7, TrueCrypt and Sleep - automount when resuming machine
Is there a way to get a TrueCrypt container to mount automatically when resuming from Windows 7 Sleep? I have the container saved on my system disk, it's not on a separate external hard drive. The ...
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Laptop Randomly Turning On and Off
So, I have a pretty new laptop, and one of its quirks is that, at random times (though typically in the middle of the night), it seems to wake up from sleep mode, churn a bit, and then go back into ...
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DNS lookup fails after resume from sleep
My Windows 7 Ultimate x64 PC has a strange networking issue. When I resume from sleep, no web pages will load (other programs such as Hamachi VPN are also unable to locate their servers). If I use ...
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Windows 8 does not wake from sleep
Windows 8 does not wake from sleep for me, I have this issue on 2/3 rigs.
When in sleep mode, pressing the mouse, keyboard and power buttons don't so anything
Bios update did not help
Motherboards:
...
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Can I prevent tv-out from disconnecting when monitor sleeps?
I have my TV connected to my computer (windows 7) through an HDMI cable that also carries the sound.
I like to put on music on my TV, but the problem is when my monitor goes to sleep back in my ...
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Laptop with Windows 7 turns on spontaneously while being in “Sleep” state
I own a laptop(HP Pavilion DV7) with Windows 7 installed for already half a year.
Usually when I finish my work I do not turn machine off - closing is enough to get is into "Sleep" state.
...
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What happens when a computer goes to sleep? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between (these four) sleep states?
What exactly (hardware and software-wise) happens when a computer goes to sleep? Do the actual processes turn ...
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Would it harm a USB device (like an iPod) if it's plugged in while a laptop goes into sleep or hibernate mode?
I have my iPod syncing/charging right now. Is it safe to keep the device plugged into the laptop via the USB cable and close the lid and allow it to go into sleep or hibernate mode?
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Why does waking a PC up with a timer act differently than with the power button?
I have a Windows 7 machine set up as a server. It has no monitor and is only accessed through remote desktop. I set up two scheduled tasks, one to put the computer to sleep at night and another to ...
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Windows 7 wake from sleep and UTC?
I've been having problems with windows 7 waking from sleep after one minute or so on my laptop. I also have ArchLinux installed on this computer. A while back I tried a registry tweak to get windows ...
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Should I ever put my computer in sleep mode? [closed]
Besides the cost of electricity, is it detrimental if a computer never goes into sleep mode? Obviously, servers are running 24/7, but is it different for a personal computer?
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Windows wakes up my external hard-drive whenever a software opens directory tree
I have two different external USB hard-drives which goes to sleep mode when not used for a while.
When any software program (or I, myself) opens directory tree, open/save dialog box or my computer ...
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1answer
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Vista laptop keeps waking up a minute after I put it to sleep
I have used the command
powercfg -lastwake
to determine what is waking up my computer. Here is what it produces in prompt
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake ...
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Disable Sleep in Ubuntu 11.10
I recently migrated from Fedora to Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. I'm really happy with the change so far, except that I often have the need to run a series of hour-long jobs overnight, and as best I can ...
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195 views
How to remap HID keyboard keys?
I got some "close to useless" USB sleep buttons for computers from a marketing campaign and was wondering how to use it to something cooler. Like.. Playing sad trombone when pressed.
So I went around ...
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Network connection problems in OSX Lion after waking from sleep
In the past two days, when I wake my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.7.3) from sleep, none of my applications can access the internet. The wifi still shows as connected, but there's no internet. The browser ...
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Stop programs from starting with Windows when it wakes up from sleep
I know that MSConfig is used to check and prevent programs from starting up (from boot), as explained in the answers to this question, but I want to know how to check the programs that open when my ...
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Allow Internet Sharing via PCIe Network Card While Computer Sleeps?
I've just built my own PC (after using Macs exclusively since the 90s). Since i don't have a wireless router, I chose to purchase a PCIe network card to share internet throughout my apartment. ...
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378 views
Computer randomly goes into sleep mode
For a while I have had no problems with my Asus laptop running Windows 7. It is a decent computer and I need it to run almost 24/7. I restart it every few days but it does continuously run. However, ...
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Estimated power draw for different power states?
What would be a raw estimate of the power draw of a semi-modern desktop PC, in different sleep states? Will the suspended state (with powered RAM) draw much more power then the PC in hibernation ...
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Removing USB Devices and Sleep Mode Windows 7 Pro
The issue is that when I remove a USB device (I've tested hard drives and mice), the computer wakes up from sleep mode.
The only thing I've been able to find are links with this solution: ...
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396 views
High CPU usage after waking up from sleep
About a month ago I reinstalled windows 7 (x64) on my laptop again. A couple weeks later, every so often when I wake my computer from sleep, the CPU starts working at 70%-95%. I tried waiting it out a ...
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My notebook keeps waking up from sleep immediately
I have similar problem as this one.
Things I tried
disabled "Allow device to wake up my computer" in device manager
after wake, I tried to run powercfg -devicequery wake_armed, which just output ...
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Why am I having issues waking up my machine (and how to debug)?
Recently I switched from buying off the shelf machines to building at work (Building AMD FX-6100 or FX-8100, older ones are A8 series or Phenom II, with Windows 7 Pro). Without going in to the ...
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bash loop in an increasing sleep time?
I would like to have a while loop in bash like this:
while read i
do
~/bin/submit_job $i
sleep N
done
But I would like N in sleep N to be short at the beginning, then progressively increase ...
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1answer
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Fedora 16 wakes on mouse - how to prevent this?
I have a desktop computer with PS/2 (!) keyboard and mouse, running Fedora 16, just recently installed. It goes to sleep OK, but moving the mouse wakes it up. I'd like moving the mouse not to wake ...
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How do I stop Windows 7 from preventing itself from hibernating if a youtube video is on, even if it is not playing anymore?
Or at least I hope that's what is doing it. If you have any ideas let me know. The mouse for example may be disabled and it still doesn't hibernate.
The settings are: Sleep: never, Hybrid sleep: off, ...
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Dell studio xps - windows vista unltimate - goes to sleep at random times?
My laptop goes to sleep randomly for no reson regardless of what I'm doing.
There is no setting that put the computer to sleep, that I know of. Under the power options in the control panel I set ever ...
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1answer
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How do I tell Windows 7 that I don't have a battery backup?
One of my computers recently started going to sleep at seemingly random intervals. Upon examining the system log, the reason is always the same. "The system is entering sleep. Sleep Reason: ...
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1answer
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System insomnia! Wakes up after 50 seconds after going to sleep
My desktop won't stay asleep. It consistenly wakes back up after approximately 50 seconds.
This happens regardless of whether I manually select Sleep from the start menu, or if it goes to sleep on ...
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PC version of Nook software needs to restart after coming out of sleep mode
I am running Nook for PC v. 2.5.5.9347 (local software only, not the tablet) under Windows 7. It seems to work fine, but if I shut the lid on my laptop, and later open it up again, Nook puts up ...
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Win7 x64 going to sleep randomly, most often during gaming?
I have a Win7 x64 on a HP 625 laptop. I've reinstalled Windows twice or thrice because of other problems, but this issue keeps popping up:
Mostly when gaming, but completely randomly, Windows goes to ...
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Sleep function not keyboard-wakeable
When I press the Sleep button on my keyboard, I get the Sleep I want, which allows the computer to wake up from a mouse click or key press. My wife is used to her desktop shortcut, however, and when I ...
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How Can I keep my Computer from going to Sleep when certain programs are running but let it go to sleep when those program are not running ? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Prevent Windows 7 PC from sleeping while a download is in progress
"How Can I keep my Computer from going to Sleep when certain programs are running but let it go to ...
