Question Laptop turns itself off after being left in sleep mode at night ?

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Stellarplacebo

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Laptop Model: Lenovo Ideapad 330-17IKB 81DM001UUS​

The OS is Windows 11.​


When putting the laptop in sleep mode and closing the lid, and leaving it overnight, the laptop turns itself off (and is off in the morning) and has to be restarted. It starts up and runs fine after being restarted.

I have tried several things in Control Panel > Power Options but nothing seems to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
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I should have stated things a little better. Closing the lid options only gives you "Do Nothing, Sleep, Hibernate, or Shut Down". I just looked around in Power Options and that was all that was there. I have not tried Hibernate but will do that this evening. For "Change when the computer sleeps", I did not see anything besides setting how long before putting the computer to sleep when plugged in. So no help there.

I don't see anyplace else to go besides those two places in Power Options. Any other thoughts appreciated.
 
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Colif said:
At first I didn't realise this was you:

I suspect what they mean by reinstall Power management is resetting it to defaults - https://www.makeuseof.com/reset-power-plans-to-default-in-windows/
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Lol, yes I thought placing the question with the Lenovo Community might help. Also, thanks for the interpretation. I reset the power plan to default but no luck. I tried Power Options to "hibernate", but it immediately turns the laptop off.
 
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Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

thats just checking its not a program causing it.
 
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Colif, hmm...I came in this morning and opened the lid and did not have to start the pc. It went right straight to the desktop.

Yesterday I only did two things...in Power Options I reset the power plan to default (I'm positive I had done that before), and instead of choosing a "time" to "Put the computer to sleep" I chose to "Never" put it to sleep.

I forgot to look and see if it was blinking and asleep when I opened it, or whether it was not sleeping and was on and running all night. I will change it back and put a "time" in it today and let you know what it does in the morning.

I'll have to get my nerve up before doing the clean boot option.

Blink11...thanks, I'll take a look at the video.
 
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Have you tried turning off the Windows System Uninterrupted Timeout feature?

That you have to do in the registry and all it does is involve changing a 1 to a 2, and then opening the power control panel. I don't know how comfortable you would be changing registry values, but that's always an option.
 
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g-unit1111, thanks, I will keep that definitly as an option if things don't get resolved. I'm not afraid of getting in the registry when I trust the source. But I'm pushing 80 next year and it's been awhile since I've had to get into it and save a backup of it and all that stuff. 😳 😊
 
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Stellarplacebo said:
I'm not afraid of getting in the registry when I trust the source.
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Back it up before changing anything in registry - https://neosmart.net/wiki/backup-restore-registry/

I guess from last comment you know that already.

One thing that can cause problems with sleep is old drivers, if it was still on after you turned sleep off, makes me wonder if its not just crashing every night.

have you run auto update? https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/...ooks/300-series/330-17ikb-type-81dm/downloads

Curious, can you look in reliability history and see if you had any hardware errors. Windows sees an unexpected restart/shutdown as an error. I don't know laptops but maybe they won't turn themselves back on if screen is shut?
 
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Colif said:
Back it up before changing anything in registry - https://neosmart.net/wiki/backup-restore-registry/

I guess from last comment you know that already.

One thing that can cause problems with sleep is old drivers, if it was still on after you turned sleep off, makes me wonder if its not just crashing every night.

have you run auto update? https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/...ooks/300-series/330-17ikb-type-81dm/downloads

Curious, can you look in reliability history and see if you had any hardware errors. Windows sees an unexpected restart/shutdown as an error. I don't know laptops but maybe they won't turn themselves back on if screen is shut?
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Yes, definitely. I wouldn't recommend it unless you absolutely for sure knew what you are doing.
 
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Yahoo...I came in this morning and the sleep light was blinking. When opening the lid it went right straight to desktop.

Yesterday in Power Options I forgot and instead of choosing a "time" to "Put the computer to sleep" I left it on "Never" put it to sleep. This seems to be the only thing that I changed and it corrected the problem. I appreciate all the suggestions and help.
Colif, I do have the Lenovo Vantage app installed and run driver update scans as part of my routeen maintenance.

I don't know how to check the reliability history to see if I had any hardware errors, but you may have found something relating to hardware because I have been having problems with my printer.

When installing the software for my Brother MFC-J485DW printer the scanning utility called ControlCenter4 pops up an error window saying that it cannot install because it is already running. When this is closed it will go ahead and finish installing the rest of the software and everything works except the ControlCenter4 scanning utility. Any thoughts?
 
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Thanks for the Brother printer help link. I really thought it might fix the printer problem, but no luck. I think I'll just relax and use my wife's laptop if I need to scan something. I hardly ever have to do that anyway.

As for the original post, the laptop sleeps like it should now and the solution seems to have been choosing "Never" (to put it to sleep) in Power Options. Odd... but it worked. I'm hesitant to try putting a time to sleep back in Power Options as long as it's workingb ok.

Colif, also I don't want to mislead anyone because even though I'm going to be 80 next year and haven't taken any computer classes, I've been playing with them as kind of a hobby for quite awhile. My first pc was a Gateway 433 MHz, 64 MB, 10 GB with Windows ME. That was tricky and fun with ME and dial-up, lol. I've also put together several custom builds over the years. Anyway, I love to keep learning and try to keep up. : )
 
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it doesn't make sense that turning sleep off means it sleeps right now... unless that action reset something and you have since turned it back on. As it can't sleep if sleep is set to never

ME was something to say you survived. Don't remind me about dial up. 4 hour session limits, try to download a 40mb file before internet gets cut off.
 
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Totally agree it didn't make sense. Yesterday I went ahead and reset all the power options back to defaults and this morning it was still sleeping like it should. All is well.

I've had some strange things happen with Windows 11 that I didn't have with 10. Examples are the printer and power problems. I've run system file checker dozens of times and it finds and fixes corrupted files or says all is good. Anyway, my latest problem is with Disk Cleanup. For some reason it will not clean up 1.3 GB of Temporary files. I am going to look into cleaning them up manually when I get time.

Cheers
 
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ubuysa said:
Did this laptop come with Windows 11 or was it originally on Windows 10?
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It came with Windows 10, and then when I put in a new SSD I did a clean install of Winsows 10. Then Windows 11 came out later and after running the PC Check it said it was eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade. So I let it go ahead and upgrade from there...pretty sure if I remember right.
 
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this might help SFC

right click start
choose terminal (admin)
if it doesn't open as Powershell, click the drop down arrow in title row and select it from there
copy/paste this command into window:

Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth

and press enter

Then type SFC /scannow

and press enter

Restart PC if SFC fixes any files as some fixes require a restart to be implemented

First command repairs the files SFC uses to clean files, and SFC fixes system files

SFC = System File Checker. First command runs DISM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-11
 
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Stellarplacebo said:
It came with Windows 10, and then when I put in a new SSD I did a clean install of Winsows 10. Then Windows 11 came out later and after running the PC Check it said it was eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade. So I let it go ahead and upgrade from there...pretty sure if I remember right.
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That may be your problem. In-place upgrades should work but there are so many different hardware and software platforms out there that oft-times it doesn't work as well as it should - usually leading to the sorts of niggly problems like yours.

If this were mine I would be doing a completely clean install of Windows 11, deleting existing UEFI partitions in the process.
 
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ubuysa, you are probably 100% correct. I'm a compulsive perfectionist and a few years ago I would not have hesitated to do a clean install. Problem is I'm getting lazy in my old age and I've found myself looking for the easy way to do things, lol. Things like a system restore, or a system reset, etc., where you let the computer do the work.

Colif, I'll try to use your fix suggestion first and get back with everyone. Thanks. By the way, I spoke to soon about the power options fix. The only setting that lets the laptop sleep overnight when closing the lid is to set it to "Never" sleep. I know it doesn't make sense, but it is the only thing that works.
 
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Colif, it said WindowsImage was healthy and SFC didn't find any integrity violations. I have a JPEG picture of it but don't know how to attach it to the post.

I'd like to get your opinion, and evryone else, about doing a system reset.
 
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No need for screenshots, that is a normal reaction

Stellarplacebo said:
I'd like to get your opinion, and evryone else, about doing a system reset.
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if you mean clean install, its up to you. They fine provided you prepared and have copies of everything you need elsewhere so you don't lose anything. Resets aren't as good and I seen them delete windows entirely so might as well just clean install.

follow this guide: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/ - its mostly the same, that is the reason we never made a 11 guide.
 
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