Can't get computer to sleep automatically

[Jarsky]

Hey all,

 

Been struggling with this ever since I built my new PC. I just cannot get it to go into sleep mode. 

Specs are in my signature, and its the latest Windows 10 (21H1) build 

 

Troubleshooting ive done: 

 

Reset the power plan to defaults

Disabled Wake timers

 

 

Checked Powercfg -requests

 

PS C:\Windows\system32> powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
None.

SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] Legacy Kernel Caller

AWAYMODE:
None.

EXECUTION:
None.

PERFBOOST:
None.

ACTIVELOCKSCREEN:
None.

 

Tried making an exception for this "Legacy Kernel Caller"

 

powercfg -requestsoverride DRIVER "Legacy Kernel Caller" SYSTEM

 

If I run a Sleep Study I can see it definately never went to sleep overnight

 

 

I ran a Sleep Diagnostic which showed me 'MoUsoCoreWorker.exe' (Some Windows Update thing) and Discord were quite regular, so I made an exception for each of those

 

powercfg /requestsoverride process MoUsoCoreWorker.exe execution
powercfg /requestsoverride process Discord.exe execution

 

Heres the new diagnostic, still not sleeping... (Not even sure what green means in the context of this diagnostic report?)

 

 

 

I even completely reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows yesterday, (these screenshots are from doing the same steps again today on the new build) and still won't sleep.

At a loss as to what the problem is....

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

It might be that the mouse is putting in slight movements every now and then, so that the sleep isnt engaging.

 

But why do you want it to sleep? Its known to break things, never been great.

[Tech87]

I've noticed a few of these posts recently.

I wonder if a Windows update borked something again.

[Jarsky]

7 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It might be that the mouse is putting in slight movements every now and then, so that the sleep isnt engaging.

Nope, there was no input detected per the reports for the 35 minutes I gave it in the latest test (Sleep set for 30 minutes)

 

The system idle time was reset because: The system detected user input.	0:13:58	2021-06-1811:27:49

 

7 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

But why do you want it to sleep? Its known to break things, never been great.

 

I've been supporting Windows systems as an engineer for about 15 years, and I've been using sleep on PC's as long as ATX has been a thing and Sleep/Suspend has been a function of Windows, never seen it "break" anything...

 

 

[Jarsky]

9 minutes ago, Tech87 said:

I've noticed a few of these posts recently.

I wonder if a Windows update borked something again.

I was wondering if this might be, i did just recently upgrade to the May 2021 (21H1) build, and this new refresh is the same build as well. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Jarsky said:

I've been supporting Windows systems as an engineer for about 15 years, and I've been using sleep on PC's as long as ATX has been a thing and Sleep/Suspend has been a function of Windows, never seen it "break" anything...

Really? It's always had issues with me. Displays not coming back online automatically  (primary will, secondary sometimes not), having to remount USB drives manually, little things like that.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Jarsky said:

I was wondering if this might be, i did just recently upgrade to the May 2021 (21H1) build, and this new refresh is the same build as well. 

I have a copy of the 20h2 installer on a a laptop, you can use that if you want to test that (I don't think you can download old ones officially).

[Tech87]

1 hour ago, Jarsky said:

I was wondering if this might be, i did just recently upgrade to the May 2021 (21H1) build, and this new refresh is the same build as well. 

Perhaps someone else will pop in here that is also on the latest build and can test.

I'm still running the old build.

[Warlock Sanders]

Hi,

 

What version of Windows 10 you using? Pro or Home?

[Mark Kaine]

On 6/18/2021 at 2:30 AM, Jarsky said:

Nope, there was no input detected per the reports for the 35 minutes I gave it in the latest test (Sleep set for 30 minutes)

 

The system idle time was reset because: The system detected user input.	0:13:58	2021-06-1811:27:49

 

 

I've been supporting Windows systems as an engineer for about 15 years, and I've been using sleep on PC's as long as ATX has been a thing and Sleep/Suspend has been a function of Windows, never seen it "break" anything...

 

 

Maybe sounds dumb, but have u tried enabling wake timers…?

 

hint: that setting doesnt work anyway, but seriously, maybe windows needs it to... "wake up" hence it cant go "sleep" (yes, its a bug, not a feature)

[Jarsky]

On 6/21/2021 at 4:57 AM, Warlock Sanders said:

Hi,

 

What version of Windows 10 you using? Pro or Home?

Pro

 

On 6/21/2021 at 1:29 PM, Mark Kaine said:

Maybe sounds dumb, but have u tried enabling wake timers…?

 

hint: that setting doesnt work anyway, but seriously, maybe windows needs it to... "wake up" hence it cant go "sleep" (yes, its a bug, not a feature)

Yup i've tried both with wake timers enabled and disabled. This is the wake timers

 

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /waketimers
Timer set by [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe expires at 4:00:00 am on 騁2.

Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 11:52:48 pm on 22/06/2021.
  Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Schedule Wake To Work' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 0

 

[Warlock Sanders]

If you're using Pro, have you tried creating Group Policy through gpedit.msc?