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[SOLVED] My PC doesn't sleep ?

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Please help me, I can't put my PC into sleep mode manually. When i choose sleep mode the screen goes black and everything is still running and it'll start back up if I click the mouse or press keyboard key. It used to sleeps only when I set it to go to sleep automatically after a given time but now it not working anymore. Is there any easy way to fix this ?

CPU: Intel CoreI9 gen 7
Motherboard: X299 Aorus Gaming 9
Ram: 32 gam ( 4x Gskill Trident Z RGB (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR) 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz
SSD/HDD: CORSAIR FORCE Series MP500 240GB
GPU: MSI GTX 1080 Ti Lightning
PSU: Hydro 600W
Chassis: In Win Infinity
OS:Window 10 pro
Monitor: ASUS TUF GAMING VG27AQ 27" IPS 2K 165Hz G-sync HDR
 
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Solution
Try this:

Type each of the following codes into Powershell (as administrator).

High Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Ultimate Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Power saver: powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Balanced: powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

This will restore all of your power profiles to default.

I'd say you've changed something in a power profile, and not remembered. This could lead to a component not sleeping when it should.

You can also use Ultimate power plan, to ensure your PC never sleeps, but that's not what we want now.
um i did these commands and now theres 8 power...
Please help me, I can't put my PC into sleep mode manually. When i choose sleep mode the screen goes black and everything is still running and it'll start back up if I click the mouse or press keyboard key. It used to sleeps only when I set it to go to sleep automatically after a given time but now it not working anymore. Is there any easy way to fix this ?

Hey there,

This is possibly something simple like a change in power plan, manually or otherwise. As @Lutfij mentioned, listing your full PC specs, will help us diagnose.
 
Some service may be running that is preventing the computer from going to sleep.

One day my computer didn't turn off. The problem was that at that moment the windows 10 update files were being downloaded

It seems to me that your computer goes into standby mode instead of hibernation
 
Some service may be running that is preventing the computer from going to sleep.

One day my computer didn't turn off. The problem was that at that moment the windows 10 update files were being downloaded

It seems to me that your computer goes into standby mode instead of hibernation
is there anyway to detect the application thats still running when i try to put my pc into sleepmode?
 
is there anyway to detect the application thats still running when i try to put my pc into sleepmode?
Try this:

Type each of the following codes into Powershell (as administrator).

High Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Ultimate Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Power saver: powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Balanced: powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

This will restore all of your power profiles to default.

I'd say you've changed something in a power profile, and not remembered. This could lead to a component not sleeping when it should.

You can also use Ultimate power plan, to ensure your PC never sleeps, but that's not what we want now.
 
Try this:

Type each of the following codes into Powershell (as administrator).

High Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Ultimate Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Power saver: powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Balanced: powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

This will restore all of your power profiles to default.

I'd say you've changed something in a power profile, and not remembered. This could lead to a component not sleeping when it should.

You can also use Ultimate power plan, to ensure your PC never sleeps, but that's not what we want now.
um i did these commands and now theres 8 power plan what should i do next
 
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