power management

The question has come to me in the past: A distant relic of a time gone by. But today, it is a featured story on both Link Removed and Link Removed. This is an age old question for computer users by now, and especially technicians.Mr. Link Removed from PCWorld writes: Most consumer computers...

Windows 7 Power Management settings may show hibernate as the default setting even though hibernation is not supported or has been disabled. Link Removed

I built a system a year ago, & sleep has always worked fine until a few weeks ago when Windows 7 began to start waking instantly the moment I put it to sleep. Now I have to turn off the power management settings of the mouse & keyboard to stop it from waking. Sometimes it works in reverse...

I have an issue with Bluetooth that has me tearing my hair out. Sometime last year I bought a HP Laptop DV6 1218TX and Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 to use with it. I'm running Windows Ultimate 64 bit. At first, the Bluetooth mouse worked absolutely fine and then suddenly, after a...

Hi My USB power doesn't restore from sleep. I't used to. The only recent change was after installing the HP WiFi mouse. The mouse was a disaster and was returned. I now have a logitec Link Removed - Invalid URL but alas when coming out of sleep my USB power doesn't restore anymore. I...

No points for calling this one, but Microsoft confirmed today that Windows 8 will indeed boast support for the USB 3.0 specification, and "robust" support at that. That includes not just the higher transfer speeds you'd expect, but the promise of better batter life thanks to the improved power...

I know this is a well worn topic, but I can't seem to find the answer. My ASUS P8Z68-Vpro Windows 7(64) system will go to sleep manually (from the shutdown menu). I have power management set to turn off the monitor and go to sleep after one minute. After a minute the monitor turns off, but...

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

Hi from what i can tell, these crashes are somehow related to power management. everything is fine until the machine turns off display, at which point weird things start happening. first it was constant usb device added/removed sounds. so i tinkered around with power options, making sure to...

Hi ppl. I recently had BSODs and freezes. I was under the impression these were related. I found that the BSOD was a driver related to a logitech camera, which i ahve unistalled. I have since completed accidently stumbled upon "summary page events" in event viewer and have noticed all these...

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Hello, I hope anybody can help me out here. This is my problem: it's already about a year know since I've assembled my computer. My motherboard seems not to completely shutdown the power of the usb ports. The motherboard I use is a Asus P6T se, I've been searching trough the forum but nothing...

My computer wakes from hibernation. I’m using windows 7 x64. My BIOS doesn’t support any configuration settings about wake, and the LAN device driver states that it doesn’t support wake on LAN. It’s a Dell Lattitude laptop, about 2 years old. No events are relevant. This started...

My Toshiba laptop is running really hot. Running Windows 7. I have gone into the settings and it is on active cooling in processor power management. It goes up to 190 degrees. I have blown out the vents with an air can, it’s all clean. I look at task manager and there is little CPU usage, so...

I am having trouble with my machine not going into sleep mode after the specified time. I ran Powercfg -Energy and got the following message. System Availability Requests:System Required Request The program has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep. Requesting...

my computer's power options have been acting up. it started after i downloaded a windows update and the computer failed to restart. my computer is a laptop and it wont give me the option to choose what happens when i close the lid and nothing happens. also, i do not get a battery icon in the...

Hey pplz, im getting a driver_power_failure (or somthing) BSOD.. it goes off screen too fast! Ive had it twice in 8 days. Both occured on a Sunday at 7:36 (about 2 seconds.. and one week apart!) I checked this with BLUESCREENVIEW which pointed to ntoskrnl.exe but i understand that that is not...

hi there , Where are the settings to set the power down times per hdd on my windows 7 ? thank you

I'm running Windows 7 32 bit and have been having multiple Sleep-related issues. When I leave the computer alone and it goes into Sleep mode, it crashes. When I manually put the computer into sleep mode, it powers off and then when it starts again says that Windows wasn't shut down properly or...

I just bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad T400. This is my 5th Thinkpad. It is a 2767-P1U. It is running Windows 7. I have the Lenovo drivers installed and have upgraded them to the latest available. I have also got Norton Anti-Virus 2011 and Office 2007 Professional. Windows is fully updated as well...