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    Laptop Intermittently Enters Sleep Mode in Windows 8 Pro

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Rodster, Jun 29, 2013.

  1. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Wow i'm stumped on this one. It's a Toshiba Satellite A355-S6998E. It randomly enters sleep mode by itself with NO user interaction. I disabled sleep mode in the power settings and it still does it. I even reinstalled the OS, no luck. I do have a Microsoft Explorer Wireless mouse hooked
    to the laptop and that's it for external devices.

    Specs are:
    Satellite A355-S6998E
    Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor P7350
    Windows 8 Pro (64-bit)
    4GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz SDRAM
    320GB HDD (5400rpm, Serial ATA)
    DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash™ drive
    Intel® Wi-Fi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/g/n)
    No Bluetooth (No Antenna)
    86 key US keyboard
    CD/DVD Buttons (Play/Pause, Stop, Prev Track, Next Track)
    Media button
    Mute button
    Touch pad pointing device
    Li-Ion (4000mAh, 6-Cell)
    1-eSATA/USB (2.0) combo port with Sleep and Charge
    3-USB (2.0) with Sleep and Charge
     
    Rodster, Jun 29, 2013
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    JOSEA NONE

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  3. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    My guess here is the computer is bored, you just need to spice things up a bit...... :)

    So you said sleep is disabled, so then is it hibernating now or still sleep to ram?
     
    TANWare, Jun 30, 2013
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  4. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    It did come with Vista, never used Vista long enough to find out. It was Windows 8 little brother IMO. :p

    I do think it's OS related, so I installed Windows 7 multi-boot to find out what might be causing this issue.
    Ha, yeah it could be due to boredom, never thought of it that way. :)
     
    Rodster, Jul 1, 2013
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    I started from scratch and reinstalled Windows 8 in a dual boot mode. Windows 7 is fine no sleep issues whatsoever. So far Windows 8 is stable with no random sleep entries. What I did this time is I only installed Windows 8 SECURITY-CRITICAL updates. No MS drivers or improvement updates were added.

    One thing I noticed immediately is that when I now perform a disk cleanup to remove Windows 8 update entries the hard drive no longer sits for several hours thrashing trying to perform a cleanup and the CPU is not pegged @ 99%. This has happened on several laptops where all Windows 8 updates both critical and non-critical were installed..
     
    Rodster, Jul 4, 2013
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