windows 8 turns off my laptop in sleep mode

[cyberrich]

My laptop wasn't performing with the windows 8.1 update so I restored it to windows 8. It's fine again, but now turns itself off in sleep mode. What can I do keep my laptop in sleep? Thanks.

 

[photonboy]

Is it OFF or just in HIBERNATION?

Check the Power Options to see what settings you have for Hybrid Sleep etc.

 

[cyberrich]

Hi, no it's off. It used to hibernate, and when I opened lid it came back on. How do I alter power options? Thanks.

 

[reedo_43]

Go into control panel, power options, change plan settings.

 

[cyberrich]

Thanks. I've just brought up change plan for power options. It's currently set as 'balanced'. By put computer to sleep, on battery it's set to 15 mins, under plugged in it's set to 30 mins. When I bought the laptop just over a year ago it always stayed in sleep mode, when I closed the lid. 2 weeks ago I upgraded to 8.1 which messed my laptop up so I've refreshed and returned to windows 8, but now my laptop turns off as soon I put it in sleep mode. What times should I opt for, re putting computer to sleep. Options go from 1 min to 5 hours, then never. Thanks.

 

[reedo_43]

That is all just personal preference. Look at power button and lid action. You must shut down completely at least once a day or you are just looking for trouble. Are you saying you can't wake it up from sleep or is it actually off? I know, it is a pain until you get it dialed in.

 

[cyberrich]

Hi, yes I do shut down once a day. What I've noticed since I've reverted back to windows 8 is that when I open the lid after leaving it in sleep mode I now have to press the on button. It used to just come back on without me pressing anything when I opened the lid, and the on button would show the blue light immediately and I'd hear the laptop starting up. Now though, there's nothing until I press the on button. After I've pressed the on button, it does come out of sleep and I've noticed the page I was looking at before is still there. Would you call this hibernating? Is it harmful for the laptop for me to keep pressing the on button though? It seems the only way to bring it out of sleep now. Thanks.

 

[reedo_43]

If it was hibernating, it would say resuming Windows. I would say it is not harmful. Sorry I couldn't have been more help. I am staying away fro 8 as long as possible.

 

[Lenovo_Y500]

Did you solve the problem? It happens the same to my Lenovo Y500.
Regards,

 

[eyvawv]

It seems (from trying to find a solution myself) that there are many possible causes of this problem, including a whole category of programmes that somehow override or interfere with your power settings. In my case I now believe the culprit to be "Intel Rapid Start Technology", which came pre-installed on my Dell XPS 15 (Windows 8.1). Under settings, the option "Timer" was turned on, which the mouse-over help described as "Enables system to transition to Intel Rapid Start Technology after a period of time in sleep".

I think this is supposed to actually save your session to the hard drive (not sure how this is different from hibernation, other than it happens during sleep and it specifically works for SSD drives), but I suspect that it somehow fails to do so on my machine, and so the result is indistinguishable from a regular shutdown.

I've only just discovered this so I haven't yet had the chance to see whether my problem is actually solved now, but I thought I'd share it while I've still got this page open.

 

[Anwaar Ulhaq]

Try this:

Click on Start Button and type "Change when the computer sleeps" and press enter

Click on "Change advanced power settings" the blue highlighted

Now find "Sleep" in the list of advance settings and expand it

Now you'll find "Hibernate After"

Change "On battery" and "Plugged in" to Never or your desired time

I hope it should work

 

[Branden Patey]

My laptop was doing something similar and I found that pre-installed toshiba software was overriding my power settings, look around in some of your pre-installed software if the regular solutions don't fix it.

 

[DanTheGoodman]

Try this:

Click on Start Button and type "Change when the computer sleeps" and press enter

Click on "Change advanced power settings" the blue highlighted

Now find "Sleep" in the list of advance settings and expand it

Now you'll find "Hibernate After"

Change "On battery" and "Plugged in" to Never or your desired time

I hope it should work

this worked for me, although I had to take a different route to get to advanced settings in windows 8.1, but huge thanks to you man you saved me