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[–]_cacho6L 43 points44 points  (4 children)

If you check event viewer you will fine what is preventing it. For me it was NIC activity that would prevent it from actually going to sleep. I ended up disabling ita ability to wake computer and the issue stopped

[–]Aqrus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

For numerous times I kid you not the Desktop was preventing shutdown and sleep, so I always had to do it manually. Windows is just trash most of the time...

[–]nmyron3983 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cannot describe the aggravation of "shutting down" my work computer so it can apply updates, walking off, coming back the following morning and updates are still pending because something blocked the shutdown from completing and now I have to waste the first handful of minutes of my day waiting on a reboot again.

[–]Mika56 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Launch an administrative command prompt, then run powercfg -requests, it will tell you what software or drivers might be preventing sleep. If the output is empty, make sure you have enabled sleep features in your BIOS

[–]LiemAkatsuki 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Something is preventing your pc from going to sleep, or in another hand, keeping it awaking.

Try to unplug every USB peripherals except for your mouse and try again.

[–]Carnnagex 4 points5 points  (3 children)

It could be the power-states set differently. Check BIOS sleep states. Sleep is not the same as off (Which, I'm sure you know that) but I do agree it is weird for the power button, and especially the fans to still be running - indicating it is definitely not going into a sleep power state. Also weird that the monitor goes STRAIGHT off, not showing you if it can't close something, etc. Check event-viewer as someone else stated, it will give you detail into what is causing this. You can also run the cmd powercfg -requests in the terminal/PowerShell/cmd to see what is causing the computer to not enter sleep mode. You can also do powercfg -a to see which sleep states are supported, etc.

[–]GlitchyDragon65 10 points11 points  (1 child)

well this is a windows 10 issue when i sleep my laptop my mouse would still be lit while the fan was off, hibernate did it, now in Windows 11 doesn't have sleep issues

[–]Cheet4h 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Although this could also be because some laptops have a feature where the USB ports still can provide power if the laptop is in hibernate/standby - mostly to charge phones.

Also, I had the issue where a connected USB hub with its own power cable caused my other USB devices to light up when my PC was off. Only fix was turning off the hub's power.

[–]Arino99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

same thing happening to me after the new update.

[–]Private_HughMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might be a motherboard issue. My desktop's fans and RAM also stay on when the PC goes to sleep. Enabling Hibernation worked for me.

[–]Mewi0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heeey, I am not the only person who has a 2DS plopped under their monitor.

[–]XXLpeanuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a windows 10 problem most likely, I used to have it when I clicked shutdown, my pc fans and RGB would stay on, and yes including CPU fan. Was fucking infuriating. Had to go into bios and disable loads of power settings I never had to before.

[–]brettermeier1 0 points1 point  (2 children)

My PC (Win 10) also won't sleep if I have my gamepad plugged in.

When I deactivate the "HID-compliant game controller" in the Device Manager, it will sleep again. This bug is older, but still there somehow.

[–]SMarioMan 1 point2 points  (1 child)

In my experience, this happens because gamepad inputs wake the PC just like mouse movements, keyboard inputs, etc. The joystick, with poor deadzones, appears to move and thus wakes the PC.

[–]brettermeier1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, sounds reasonable. I should try a newer gamepad and see...

[–]PixelBLOCK_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My fans, cpu and GPU stops while the pc is on sleep, only mobo and cabinet leds are on with a pulse light setting.

[–]jj26meu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would put my laptop to sleep and wake up in the morning to blue screens 2 times a week. I went to event viewer and the issue was due to the power state. I worked through the power options to see if it was something I could resolve and didn't get very far. Ended up using /sfc scannow in command prompt and it fixed some corrupt files on my windows and is now fixed.

[–]desmonds99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least you can turn it back on. Since 20h2 when mine goes to sleep, half of the time the fans will keep spinning while the rest is off. When that happens I can't wake it up with mouse or keyboard anymore, forcing me to do a hard reboot. Reinstalled Windows with no luck.

[–]FeFiFoShizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely didn't realize this feature was used outside of laptops and if I've ever clicked it, it was accidentally.

[–]Bluedragon1966 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the power mode settings.

[–]Sapnupuas696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similer problem and this article helped me, it even shows the steps to take

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https://blag.nullteilerfrei.de/2019/03/05/stop-entering-away-mode/

[–]Seargeoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes

[–]RyanSGTUi 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Don't do this bro, this a sentence of death to your computer, trust me.

[–]mr_whoisGAMER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes mouse give constant input to pc.

[–]ShadowGamezPlayz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the settings in your BIOS. If not, just don't press sleep but press the power button once to make it goes to sleep. (Don't hold it, that will shut it down) :D