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Windows 7 not sleeping?

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IcarusSC

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Just got my new computer up and running. I have the power options set to Power Saver, and it worked just fine for three weeks.

Two days ago, I noticed that my computer wasn't sleeping after 10 minutes the way I had it set. I double-checked my power options, and they're still what they were. All I can think of that I did in the past two days was update to the new Catalyst drivers and switch over to the Steam UI beta. I tried closing CCC and shutting down Steam, but no dice. I changed my power options -- still nothing.

Anyone have any idea what could be causing it? I'm at a bit of a loss ... :confused:
 
I know you stated what you added already, but by any chance did you add a virus scanner or adaware? On my wife's computer, the adaware live protection thingy was causing hers not to sleep at all. Once I disabled that, it worked fine. Also, make sure you don't have any other utilities scheduled to run, like disk clean up, defrag, virus scan, etc.
 
A friend of mine had a similar issue that happened to be caused by a really high mouse sensitivity paired with a glossy/worn down mouse pad. The mouse would move a few pixels every now and then on its own, enough to keep Windows from sleeping.
 
I was having a problem where my computer would seemingly randomly wake up from sleep after I upgraded to 7. It turns out that one of the power options is something like "allow computer to wake from timed events." As soon as I turned this off, my problem stopped.
 
I had the same issue and I fixed the problem by going into my network adapter properties and turning off the wakeup option.
 
Other things to check that will wake your computer up:

1. Media Center TV guide
2. Media Center automatic update
3. Windows automatic update
4. scheduled task - specifically ones that are set to wake computers up
5. network adapter in Device Manager
5a. uncheck "allow this device to wake the computer"
5b. under Advanced tab (if you have nVidia adapter), make sure Wake on (whatever) are all disabled.
5c. under Advanced tab (if you have Intel adapter), under Wake on Settings, disable it.

If your computer wakes up on it's own, you can determine what woke it up by opening Command Prompt and typing the command:

powercfg -lastwake

It will tell you which hardware is waking up the computer. But you must make sure that YOU aren't waking up the computer (with your mouse for example).

Another thing to try is to go into MSCONFIG and remove all of the non-essential start-up programs and see which ones are waking your computer up.
 
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Shutting off Wake-on-LAN from the device manager seems to have done it. Odd that it would suddenly start causing problems.

Thanks for your help, guys!
 
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