power settings

I've been having this trouble on my laptop where the power setting just changes at will. I usually put it at power saving when i use it to write but it just takes 10-20 seconds before it by itself changes to High performance. Its been doing this all day today, does anyone know why it would be...

I wanted to start this thread to warn people about things that have come up during my time testing Windows 8. The largest things that I was hoping to put out is the stuff that is a major break down, and could cause your system to have to be cold shutdown. That was the major idea I had, but...

I have a dual monitor system with W-7 Pro Power settings are to turn off the display after one hour and has been doing that for a year. A couple of days ago, System just started to turn off the displays after about 60 seconds. They come right back with a mouse shake or keyboard tap. Set for 1...

When your Windows-based computer has been idle for an amount of time that is sufficient to make your hard disk turn off, your hard disk may not turn off. For example, even though your setting is set to 3 minutes, your hard disk might not turn off until... More...

Hello, When my computer running (Windows 7 64 bit) tries to sleep I have found that Windows cannot sleep but it freezes the computer and I get white noise from the speakers. The keyboard or mouse do not work. The only thing I can do is do a restart by pressing the restart button. It hasn't...

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...

Hello everybody, I've been having a recurring problem with my Dell Latitude D620. I bought it around four years ago with Windows Vista, then I downgraded to XP with few problems.* Around half a year ago, I upgraded to Windows 7, and everything was going ok until my computer started mysteriously...

Hey Guys, Hopefully one of you can help me cos im getting really frustrated. I have tried searching online for solutions but to no avail. My laptop is just under 12 months old and other than the battery dying already I have never really had any problems until last week. Its a Dell Inspiron...

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I've got a strange problem. Whenever I restart my computer, the Power Management settings on my wireless adapter keep reverting back to the defaults. This is a problem because the option "Allow this device to wake the computer" is enabled by default for this wireless adapter. Not only is this...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my USB. It seems that any USB storage device I plug in either 1) is not recognized at all (no error message or anything), or 2) displays an error message that the device is not recognized, or driver wasn't installed correctly. This problem seems to pertain...

Hi, Most mornings during the first 10 minutes after startup - but sometimes several hours after, my display will switch off (with the computer still running). If I put the computer to sleep and straight out again, the display comes back on. Very occasionally, it will go strainght off again and I...

i recently built my machine. it was working fine doing things in windows and out. i have an SSD now and liked how smoothly the computer would resume from the default sleep mode power settings that came with win7, so for the first time i've actually been using them on my desktop. however...

I have a HP Pavilion a6607c with Windows 7 64 bit installed, the computer goes to sleep just fine, but when I try to wake it from sleep everything turns on but no fully fans working but the LED light goes from blue back to orange as if it is stuck in sleep mode, I have updated the bios but im...

Hello, I am using Windows 7 Home edition. I have found that the turn off monitor and sleep functions do not work. When I set these from edit plan settings and save changes it does not do anything. I have tried restarting my computer to see if this would work but to no avail. I have no...

I have a new Desktop with Windows 7. After I start the computer and leave it running for a while, (10 to 15min), it will automatically revert to the password screen. Also it won't go to screen saver. I have the screensaver set to not require password after waking. Also I have my power...

There are several threads about the network card going to sleep when a laptop is idle, but all of them I've seen just suggest the same things regarding various settings. I still have the same problem despite having set the following settings... In "Change Plan Settings"...

I have a puzzling problem, my new laptop allows a variety of power adjustment settings, however the only choice *sleep* for the lid closing, it is greyed out so I cannot select anything else, in the advanced settings no matter which configuration I choose for the rest, I am given just one...

When I open the Lid on this Toshiba L675-OOX Laptop, everything pops up out of sleep the way it should. When I run it on Battery power, I can lift the Lid but it will not come out of Sleep. If I move the mouse, it does. Can someone point out to me how to fix this so that when I lift the Lid...

I have a problem with hibernate/sleep in windows 7. when i set pc to hibernate or sleep, the power turn off, but it does not resume. I press any key on keyboard, power does not come back on, then i push power button, power on and display not windows unexpected shutdown screen, choose safe...