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Computer will not sleep or hibernate.

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by davidworsnop

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I have an AMD Athlon 64bit machine. I used to run XP but now have Vista Home Premium. With neither of the operating systems could I get the machine to sleep or hibernate. It powers down and seems to be working OK then immediately decides to power-up again. I have tried various power settings without success and recently bought an "eco button" which should also put the machine to sleep but I get exactly the same situation, can anyone help please.

David

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by rob miners

You will need to check the Bios Power settings and look for settings like these.

S3 Suspend to RAM (Sleep)
or
S4 Suspend to Disk (Hibernate)

Common BIOS entry Keys
F1
F2
DEL
ESC
F10
A user will know when to press this key when they see a message similar to the below example as the computer is booting. Some older computers may also display a flashing block to indicate when to press the F1 or F2 keys.

Press to enter BIOS setup

Tip: Hold a Key down, this will cause a stuck key error, which may allow you to enter the BIOS setup.

by computercookie

turn the bloddy thing off or on.

If you setup the PC properly it doen't take take much longer to startup than it take to come back from hibernate.

by computercookie

hibernate!

Go to run, type in "powercfg /hibernate on".

This will bypass all the stupid power setting!

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