power settings

I have Windows 10 Pro running on a old Lenovo Thickcentre M58 desktop computer. when the computer is idle for 1 min 30 secs to 2 minutes, it goes into sleep mode even through it is set up for maximum performance power plan. I checked the BIOS and just the hard drive timeout is disabled. My power...

I have power settings which make computer go to hibernation on reaching critical battery level, and my critical battery level is set to 30% for on battery. Since yesterday, my PC won't go to hibernation on reaching 30%, instead there is a red crosshair which keeps blinking on the battery...

After the recent update (either on 10th or 24th of August, I can't remember, probably 24th) my computer won't shut down properly sometimes. The screen will go dark and the keyboard and mouse lights will go off, but the chassis and CPU fans are still spinning and the computer LEDs are still on...

Hi I have my power settings set to the normal settings, monitor turns off after 15 minutes of inactivity, computer goes to sleep after one hour. But what I'm seeing is that my monitor goes black after a few minutes of inactivity. It doesn't shut off, the monitor is still on, but it stops...

The sleep mode on my computer doesn't work properly. I go to Start->Power->Sleep and the computer turns completely silent (like it should), but after a few minutes it begins making noise. Why? I have tried to turn off "hybrid sleep mode", but with no luck.

I have spent months trying to diagnose why a couple of my systems will not enter any power save states. Late last year i narrowed it down to the fact that i have several game controllers plugged in. When googling 'Windows 10 joystick sleep' i suddenly became aware i was not alone. It seems now...

I've been having some issues with my battery. I have a Sager X8100 gaming laptop. Specs are i7 Q840, dual Nvidia 285m in SLI, 8gbs RAM, windows 7 64 bit. Its a fairly old rig.. 2009 or 2010 not sure which. I bought it used in 2012. Had a 1 year warranty. I noticed the battery wouldn't keep it...

I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 a few months ago and all was well until a few weeks ago. I started getting frequent Store Exception Errors and hard drive errors. I ran chkdsk /scan and it found 228kb of bad sectors which hasn't gone up since running it. I tried changing the power...

this machine just has 1 user - me. in user settings, i'm listed as administrator of course. yet i'm still always bombarded with "administrator privilege" prompts, and currently............ i'm trying to untick "fast startup" under power settings. it's greyed out, as if i don't have...

I've done a fairly cursory search through the forum, and haven't seen my specific issue mentioned, so here goes. I have Win7 and the screensaver is acting weird. Before anyone asks, I've checked all the settings regarding the amount of time before the screensaver comes on, before the computer...

I bought an HP laptop for my daughter for the holidays. Once she started using it the computer was giving us issues, so we sent it back to HP for repairs. Turned out it had a bad power supply or something. Anyhow, I didn't have any issues with it until today when my daughter can't play her...

After a reset all is fine except I have lost sleep. I have followed all the Google advice but nothing. I went to power advanced and clicked 'features that are not visible''. I tried everything I could but still I only have restart and shut off. I found a cmd prompt that did not work which makes...

I can put my system to sleep and it will wake up after about 5 seconds. I found something I had not seen before and was wondering if anyone knew what it was. As far as I know, I do not have any streaming music happening. I just changed my power settings to see if the Multimedia Streaming...

For some reason my computer has just started turning the brightness on my laptop to 100% when the battery is connected. This is a seriously pain in my eyes and i usually keep my brightness around 20 unless watched videos. So at first i would just alter the display settings of the 'Balanced...

Recently Windows shuts down when idle after the pre set sleep interval expires. When I set my display to blank after 15 min and my PC to sleep after 20 min my PC will shut down rather than go to sleep as it is suppose to. I have extended the sleep interval to an hour to avoid shutdown. I...

Hi there, I am transferring a large amount of data and need to leave the PC on overnight. I believe I have configured Windows 7 Professional so that automatic restarts for updates are disabled, yet the PC still sometimes shuts down when left on for long periods. Any advice on how to prevent...

Here's the situation: • I have Windows 7 SP1 running on an MSI Z97-G55 mobo with latest BIOS (updated today). • My router, a Linksys E3000, is running DD-WRT (updated today) Here are the steps I have taken to try to get it to work: 1. Static IP is set and works just fine. 2. I've added the...

Hey guys I hope someone can shed some light on this for me as I am at a complete loss. I have a HP pavilion dv6-1129tx laptop it still has the genuine battery in it which is about 4yrs old but I assume it is still alright as it holds charge for over an hour running in battery alone. OS is...

Windows 7 professional 64 bit , i put my computer to sleep and it take about 1-2 min then my computer shuts off completely and i have to turn it on by pressing the power button, and windows starts and says windows did not shut down properly, restart normally or safe mode , command prompt, why...

When I turn on my brand new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, my older PC also powers on. Turning on the PC does not power up the laptop though. Both are running 8.1 and both are associated with the same hotmail account. PC connected to router with Ethernet cable and laptop is connected to wifi. I can...