Sleep mode not working if logged in

[bibulous]

Hi all,

Instead of shutting down I tend to choose sleep mode (not automatically after x minutes, but via the start menu)
If I have already signed out this works fine, however, if I am signed in it goes into sleep mode & then wakes up again immediately.

Is there something that is causing the pc wake up again, for example signing me out.

I appreciate that there is not a lot of information here, so if there are any more details that would help then please let me know what they are.
If there is a tool or command I can use to monitor what is going on then again, let me know & I can provide the results.

Having done a little bit of google searching some people have had similar issues, but those all seemed to be around sleeping after x minutes.

Any assistance or thoughts would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Steven...

 

[Nelviticus]

I had a similar problem when I had a Logitech wireless mouse attached. The driver installs both a mouse device and a keyboard device; I had to turn off 'allow device to wake computer' for both of these.

The following article is about Windows 7 and mentions powercfg, which I don't think works in Windows 10, but it does show you how to turn off 'allow wake' for devices:
How To Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally

Nelviticus

 

[xwb]

The minor vibration caused by my desktop means the mouse keeps on moving and the PC never goes to sleep. To fix that, I place the mouse on its back.

 

[bibulous]

Thanks for your thoughts, I tried them all over the weekend, but to no avail.

The link that Nelviticus provided had a few more ideas, but again they did not help.

If I ever find a solution I will post it, but for now I will just accept that I have to sign-off first.

 

[strongm]

The link also described using powercfg. Did you try that (contrary to Nelveticus' earlier assertion it does work on Windows 10) and, if so, what did it tell you?

 

[bibulous]

Hi strongm no I didn't. I will give that a go tonight when I get home from work.

 

[bibulous]

So what normally happens when you try to recreate an issue, it stops happening. The same happened to me last night, so I could not identify the culprit.

I did check what can wake my computer & there were no waketimers. There were three devices however,

Mouse​

Keyboard​

Something by Realtek​

I will spend more time over the weekend trying to recreate the issue (unless it just happens by chance in the meantime).
I will also look into the Realtek thing & see if that could be the cause. If so I will either try to disable it in the wake-devices or see if there is anything other than Realtek installed that I could use.

Thanks again for all your help.

 

[strongm]

I suspect it might be the Realtek network adapter, and it may well be set to wake on lan.

 

[bibulous]

Thanks strongm, that would make sense. When I ran the same checks on the PC at work I got three devices again, Mouse, Keyboard & LAN connection.

I have done a quick google search and there are a few ways of changing that, so I will give that a go.