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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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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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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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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 ...
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Macbook not going to sleep
My macbook does not want to go to sleep when I close the lid or manually choose sleep from the apple menu.
Things I have tried:
resetting the PRAM
resetting the SMC
According to PMSET the ...
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Booting problems when In sleep mode
I have recently put in a new PSU and Graphics card. And when I put into sleep mode everything is fine. But then when try wake (boot) it back from sleep mode it doesn't. My LED's and my fans are ...
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Hibernate Option Disappeared
A while ago I had the option to hibernate the computer. Nowadays, this option disappeared. In fact, even the standby option (when click the turn off button) is greyed out.
I have tried the "powercfg ...
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Legacy Kernel Caller preventing sleep mode
I have a problem with Windows 7 not sleeping.
PowerCfg -requests
says a "Legacy Kernel Caller" driver prevents the sleep mode.
This is not very helpful or informative.
How do I get more details ...
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Need to prevent external drive from going into sleep mode
I have a hard drive in a caddy with USB and eSata connections and I have a smart TV. I would like to use the Hard Drive to record TV shows. When I plug the hard drive into the TV via the USB and press ...
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MacBook Core 2 Duo: “Require password to wake this computer from sleep” No longer works
After recently updating my MacBook to 10.5.8, I've noticed that the option to require a password to wake the computer from sleep/screensaver no longer works. I put the thing to sleep, and it comes ...
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What is the difference between Sleep and Standby modes? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between (these four) sleep states?
What are the sleep modes and standby modes in Windows?
How can you differentiate them?
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Logoff and then sleep in Windows 7
I have a habit to logoff and then sleep the computer in order to eliminate boot time but restart all user programs. I have to click logoff, wait for the login screen and then click sleep. I wonder if ...
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Windows 7 does not 'wake up' from Sleep mode
I'm new to Windows 7, so I don't know if this is normal.
When the computer is idle for 30 minutes, the screen goes black and no key pressing or mouse movement will bring the computer out of standby. ...
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How can I make my computer play dead? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable power LED blinks during Vista hybrid sleep?
I have a laptop that when sleeping is perfectly quiet, which is great. What isn't so great is trying to sleep with ...
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computer goes to sleep / freezes even though I have high performance setting set in Windows 7
So my computer should not be going to sleep but I think it is because when I play a flash movie on videoBB or another similar site for longer than 30 mins or so the computer fan goes off and even ...
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Have soft-power button “ask me what to do”?
In Windows XP, there was an option in the power controls, to have the computer's physical "soft" power button "ask me what to do." Basically, the shutdown dialog would appear, and give the option to ...
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My Asus Eee Pc 1005P does not “wake up” when I press the on/off button
My Asus Eee Pc 1005P does not wake up when I press the on/off button.
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Linux error when resume from RAM
The last two times that I have resumed my laptop from sleep, it has hung and given me this set of errors:
[drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 1sec aborting
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Lion MacBook Pro will not load webpages with DNS just after wake
I'm working with a 2011 MacBook Pro running Lion (10.7.2), that after waking from sleep (i.e. opening the lid) takes an inordinately long amount of time (2-3 minutes or more) to get a usable internet ...
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Acer 5740 G - lid closed issues
I have problem with my laptop Acer 5740G running Windows 7. In power options I have "Change what to do when closing the lid" option, between Sleep, Hibernate and Do Nothing I have set Do Nothing. In ...
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Does sleep eject USB Drives?
I have a netbook connected to two USB HDDs when I'm at home, and most of the time when I take it with me I shut it down and then disconnect it. But sometimes (mostly monday mornings ;) ) if I'm in a ...
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How to disable scheduled sleep warning in Mac OS X Lion?
I'm creating a kiosk. Would like it to sleep at night and wake in the morning. I know about auto sleep in System Preferences > Energy Saver.
Trouble is, the Mac puts up a dialog box before sleeping ...
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How do I find out which one of those pesky programs keeps waking my machine from sleep?
Every night I put my Windows 7 machine into sleep mode, and every morning I wake up and the thing is running.
How I can find out which process is waking the thing up?
I've already looked at the ...
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Win7 becomes unstable after waking from sleep and trying to access esata drive
I have the following problem:
I have a HTPC at home which is only used for its Mediacenter but since recently has an esata storage enclosure to record all its data to. The esata enclosure has a ...
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Windows 7: sleep turning the computer off vs. leaving the computer running?
I just replaced a busted motherboard on my Windows 7 computer, and it no longer sleeps as it had before. With my old motherboard, whenever I put the computer to sleep, the screen faded to black and ...
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Is there a way to automatically prevent sleeping during the day in Linux?
I wouldn't mind if it would automatically sleep after n minutes of inactivity in the evening and night, but during the day I'd like it if it wouldn't do that, to make sure it doesn't accidentally kill ...
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Ubuntu 11.10: put computer to sleep when inactive for 4 hours
In Ubuntu 11.10, under the power menu (in Ubuntu 11.10 this menu is found under system settings--it has a battery icon), I have the option to put the computer to sleep when inactive for 10 minutes, 30 ...
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Fedora: Hibernate doesn't work
On Hibernate (i.e. KDE Kickoff - Leave - Hibernate), I immediately get a black screen with those two lines:
PM: Syncing file systems ...
Freezing user space processes ...
A few seconds later, the ...
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How do I stop OS X Lion from sleeping when I close the lid on my new Air?
Either pmset noidle doesn't work, or "sleep" doesn't mean what I think it means. If I'm playing Pandora and I shut my lid, I want the music to keep playing. Apparently there's an app called ...
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Custom sleep mode for Windows PC
On my laptop I can close the lid, and the computer enters a mode where the fans stop running, allowing me to queue up downloads for the night without having to hear the fan noise.
Can something ...
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MacBook Pro does not connect to WiFi network automatically
At some point, my MacBook Pro (3,1, Late 2007, running Lion) stopped connecting automatically to my WiFi network, e.g. when awaking from sleep. Also, it takes it unusually long (~ 1 minute) from ...
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Windows 7 login screen: how change default action to sleep?
I know how to change default to sleep in start menu after logging in, but what about in the logon screen? How do I change the red button on the bottom right to default to sleeping instead of shutdown?
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w520 sleep freeze
This laptop is driving me crazy.
Sometimes when I instruct it to go to sleep (by closing the lid or pressing hotkey on keyboard).
It either doesn't respond to the commandThe screen goes black but it ...
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No signal to monitor when waking up after sleep
I am trying to figure out why my computer doesn't wake up properly from sleep, which happens about 3 times out of 5 (see update below). Fans and HDDs spins up and looks to be working (according to ...
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pgrep faster than it takes to start process, use sleep?
I'm having some issues with my CSH script and the command:
set XVFBCHK2 = `pgre -f 'Xvfb' | wc -l`
It seems to return inconsistent values. When it should return 1 it returns 0. I'm pretty sure ...
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Windows shuts down unexpectedly when waking up from sleep
I've been facing this issue since yesterday, whenever I put the computer into sleep mode and when I wake up, it takes me to boot menu with choices; start Windows normally, safe mode, etc. in short, it ...
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Windows 7 Laptop Randomly Sleeping
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on a Lenovo laptop, and I have a problem wherein after I've put it to 'sleep' once, it will seemingly without any reason or warning go back to sleep every 10 to 15 minutes ...
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Should I symlink my /private/var/vm dir to another volume in OS X Lion?
So I just installed an SSD in my MBP and have been a bit concerned about running out of disk space. I noticed that /private/var/vm holds an 8.6 gb sleepimage file as well as swap files. I'd be much ...
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My homebuilt computer can't awake from sleep mode
So I decided to build my own computer about 3 weeks ago. Everything went smooth however I noticed a pretty nasty issue when the computer goes to sleep.
Indeed when it goes to sleep for more than ...
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Sleep shortcut in win7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the command to use to put your computer to sleep (not hibernate)?
When I try to create a sleep shortcut in windows 7 x64 using this code:
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Disallow shutdown/sleep/restart on OSX?
Is it possible to disable shutdown, sleep and restart for non-admin user on Mac OS X? (I am running Snow Leopard.)
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How To Wake Up Laptop Without Switching On The Screen?
I have setup a schedule for disk defragmenter but in Task Scheduler i cannot see the option for a laptop waking up and not switching screen. Since my laptop has always its lid closed, i don't want the ...
