Vista won't go to sleep on it's own

My dv6000t will not go to sleep as scheduled in the power options.

I have been searching and reading dozens of forums looking for solutions. I have found lots of Vista sleep issues, but no solutions specific to my issue. Because of my fruitless searching I tried to be careful to phrase the title of this thread to facilitate future searching of this topic.

If I manually put it to sleep it works flawlessly. It will appropriately wake up for Windows update or to record a TV show on time. I can set the power options for "turn off the display" and "put the computer to sleep" to any setting I want and the screen will turn off as scheduled, but the computer will never go to sleep.

It is annoying to come downstairs at 7am and find the whole notebook is hot because it has been running all night, I know this is not good for the pc.

Any advice before I plunge into another long chatting session with HP Support India's department of redundancy department?

I have faithfully been using HP update and Windows update. The problem started about 5 days ago. I have no external keyboard or mouse, wireless is turned on and connected. I have a USB external hard-drive, an HP printer/scanner/copier (which I added about 5 days ago, hmmmm), and that is about it.

Thanks

 

Mmm.. Thats weird.. Well did you try unplugging the HP Printer to see if thats conflicting with anything? Also did you install any drivers for the Printer because maybe thats conflicting with something.. Mmm... Are you setting a certain time for the computer to go to sleep or are you setting it to sleep after the computer goes idle for a certain amount of time?

 

I removed the printer and deleted it's entry, no change. I did however notice that there were 13 windows updates today. I will install them tonight and report if there is any change.

I don't know how to tell if it is a certain amount of time or a certain amount of idle time, is this a setting I don't know about? All I have changed you can see if you click on the battery icon in the system tray, click on more power settings, click on change plan settings, you will then see the options that I referenced.

 

I actually had this happen to me right after I changed the Screen Saver to something other than Windows Logo(I really don't care what SS is shown actually). So I changed back and all is well again. Don't ask why cause I don't know but I had uninstalled everything back to a certain point and that didn't fix it. So change the SS back did.

--Mickey

 

A user of TabletPCReview provided this answer and it worked, thanks for all your help.

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You may have enabled "Away Mode" in place of Sleep. To check this, go to the Power Options, click "Change plan settings" under your currently selected plan, click "Change advanced power settings", scroll to the bottom and expand "Multimedia Settings" and "When sharing media" and change the setting to "Allow the computer to sleep" if it isn't already set to that. If it is, scroll up and expand "Sleep" then "Allow hybrid sleep" and make sure it's set to "On".

Hopefully one of those suggestions will work. Good luck!

 

geez, i had this same problem. thanks for the fix.

 

I had the same problem and tried to communicate with HP. After a long chat they finally said there is something wrong with my video driver and to reinstall it. Needless to say that wasn't the problem at all. Wow it was that simple and HP Tech Support didnt know about it? I am amazed that they have an award for one of the top 10 support sites. I give them an award for on of the top 10 crap sites.

 

i continued to have problems with Vista not sleeping. finally i took note of the blue screen i got sometimes and it was "power_driver_state_failure" which i looked up on google. saw a faint reference to backup or security software and another case in XP where Norton Ghost was the issue. so i just uninstalled Norton Ghost today and so far so good. I'll report back either way on the results. Usually happens at least once every 2 days so I should know soon.