Windows 7 Power settings how to make it sleep

[barnabas1969]

Try installing MCE Standby Tool. Run the tool, and choose the default options. You can then uninstall it if you wish. It will have already set the power options in Windows correctly.

If this doesn't work, then you have a hardware or BIOS problem, or possibly something on your LAN is waking it.

Are you attempting to put it to sleep via a remote desktop session or something? Have you tried doing it when logged in directly to the PC itself?

[JackatForum]

What does that Registry entry do???

[JackatForum]

Tried putting to sleep from the PC keyboard/house. Not remotely.

Installed MCE Standby tool. It asked what setting do I want. Sleep was not an option by StandBy was so I picked it. It says updated. Tried sleeping and the video shut off but power light still on, N900 light on, fan still going. While I was typing this the video came back on but not at the login but back to the desktop so it looks like Sleep just shut the video off for a while. I will now reboot and retry.

[barnabas1969]

Standby = Sleep.

It sounds like it went into Away Mode. Was a recording in progress when you attempted to put it in Standby? If so, then this is normal behavior. Try putting it in Standby when there are no recordings in progress.

[Shackleford]

Possibly s5 sleep.

[barnabas1969]

Possibly s5 sleep.

S5 is off.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_C ... wer_states

[JackatForum]

Nothing was happening on the PC or actually nothing should have been going on. I just never sleeps.

I do not know about S5. I did not see anything in the BIOS about S5.

Sounds like S5 is a real power off except for the power button and that would PREVENT WMC from recording. From the postings and doc it looked like I wanted AWAY mode. That is how the tower was setup and seemed to work.

So should I turn on S5 and if so how? Or how should it be setup. It seems that that fans are noisy now even when nothing is happening when it should be asleep.

[Shackleford]

No, what you want is s3. There are different levels of "sleep", some will still leave certain components in different states meaning fans will still spin. All that is controlled in the motherboard bios under power management. Make sure its set to s3. Some bios I have seen the default set to "s1&s5".

You can also just unplug the Ethernet cable from the pc to see if it sleeps then. If so the network is likely keeping it awake.

[JackatForum]

There is no ethernet cable but only the USB NetGear N900. I have already unplugged the adapter from the USB extension cable and it still did not sleep.
I did not see anything that said S5 in the BIOS Power Management.

[JackatForum]

The PC now goes to sleep both manually on automatically and did wake up to record. This started happening after I enabled hibernation ( I could have sworn I did this weeks ago and even hibernated it but I seen that it was missing from the shutdown menu).

Good but now it doesn't stay awake for the recording. I had it set to sleep after 10 mins. So it woke up at 9 and went back to sleep at 9:10.

So how do I now keep it awake while recording.

[JackatForum]

Sometimes it sleeps via timer sometimes not without changing any settings.. I cannot figure out what it's doing.

[JackatForum]

I am able to put it to sleep via the shutdown/sleep or the power button which I have set it to sleep. It still wakes up at 3:54 AM and PM.

This is the first entry in the WIndows Log after waking up
Source BROWSER
The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{CAD76B40-DAF7-4974-A315-656332CD6E2C} because a master browser was stopped.
then
Source Kernel-General
The system time has changed to ‎2013‎-‎07‎-‎16T19:54:09.500000000Z from ‎2013‎-‎07‎-‎16T10:02:39.930388500Z.

If anyone out there is looking at my posts (I wouldn't either since I always have these types of issues:-)