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about 5 months back i had windows 7. suddenly my laptop started to put itself to sleep even while i am working with it.
i didn't want to go to a center due to the pandemic. so i installed windows 11 on it a few weeks back. the problem still remained even though i fresh installed it. i tried dual booting with ubuntu and ubuntu didn't have the problem. how can i resolve the issue on windows 11? thanks in advance.
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Do you notice if you're switching from plugged in to battery when the issue occurs?
It happens bith when pluged in and when not charging. you don't need to switch it for the issue to start.
The reason I asked is to try and see if it is a power issue/power setting or not. If it was somehow thinking it was on battery while plugged in, it could have entered a low power mode.
When you say fresh install of win 11, did you do an in place upgrade while running an install media when win 7 was booted or did you have a bootable media you loaded win 11 from? If the former, there might be a bad power setting somewhere that carried over.
When you say sleep, you can jiggle the mouse and it wakes right up? Does it show the ad screen you need to swipe away before logging in again/going to your desktop? Making sure it isn't going into hibernate due to it thinking it's on low battery.
Are you actively typing, moving the mouse when it goes to sleep or is there at least a minute of inactivity before it goes to sleep?
You can also try resetting the power settings to default in windows by using an elevated cmd prompt and use the following command: powercfg -restoredefaultschemes
I've seen some power options not available until the graphics driver was updated as well.
I used a bootable media for fresh install.
It goes to sleep even when I am typing. It wakes up when I press the power button and asks for password in the login screen. It doesn't show any ad.
I recently noticed sometimes it doesn't go to sleep when I am inactive, sometimes it does.
Cause yesterday I left my laptop open thinking it would go to sleep like it always does but suprisingly it didn't even after 4 hours!
But this doesn't always work!
Sorry for my bad English.
Under power settings, go to "Choose what closing the lid does" on the left side and change "when I close the lid" to "Do nothing".
For your power plan in power settings, go to "change plan settings". How long do you have it set to go to sleep when on battery and plugged in?
When it goes to sleep when typing, open event viewer, go to windows logs and then system. See if there's any messages regarding it going to sleep due to low power or any odd messages relating to power when it went to sleep.
I did everything you said.
Event viewer says 'the system has returned from a low power state'
Does the computer think it's low on battery and goes to sleep?
It had 77% remaining when before going to sleep.
It's hard to say without a specific error, notification as to what is causing it to enter the low power state.
When a laptop is on a battery and the battery gets low enough, it forces hibernate but there should be a mention of this in event viewer when it happens.
Using a bootable media to install win 11 should have wiped out any bad power settings but if the cause is a setting from a driver, it could have carried over through the new install. There are some drivers/devices that have direct influence on power state without a corresponding windows setting, would need to be set within device manager.
I mentioned disabling sleep from closing the lid due to a possible malfunction in the sensor that detects when the lid is closed.
Possibly try in power settings - change what closing the lid does - power button - nothing. This would be to troubleshoot if you have a sticky power button that might not be popping back up all the way, thinking you're telling it to go to sleep.
Here's info on a cmd that might be able to help.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-sleepstudy
Just tried it. Didn't work.
Hi @gs pratap
Windows 10 sleepiness is a common concern these days and as have clean installed the PC a simple registry tweak might sort this out. But make sure you are backing up the registry or creating a restore point before this.
Hope this resolves your Query!!
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