I have a Dell desktop with Windows 8 and it will wake up from sleep mode if not in use for awhile but if left for longer periods it goes into sleep mode and will not wake up. I have tried to wake it touching mouse touching power button using windows key + C no results unless I do a hard power down Now it has started to download windows updates without installing them The best I saved for last...it will not shut down it only goes into Power Save mode very frustrating...suggestions please?

What and where can I find BIOS?? Thank you.

Are you serious Sheshanarayana Ravishankar? After EIGHT pages of posts about the same issue! Then when someone has a solution available. Then you feel the need to chime in. Wow! I am most certain that you guys can do better than that.

by following the original suggestion: doing a hard reset. if still doesn't display at least the initial post to your screen, you have a different issue.

How can I do any of this if it won't wake up! Windows 8 just updated yesterday

windows 8 won't wake up from sleep mode

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I have a Dell desktop with Windows 8 and it will wake up from sleep mode if not in use for awhile but if left for longer periods it goes into sleep mode and will not wake up. I have tried to wake it

touching mouse
touching power button
using windows key + C
no results unless I do a hard power down

Now it has started to download windows updates without installing them

The best I saved for last...it will not shut down it only goes into Power Save mode

very frustrating...suggestions please?

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Was having this same problem and I fixed it. Check to make sure it's actually not waking! In my case the computer itself was waking but the display adapter was not. I could hear the processor fan come back on, the hard drives spin up, but nothing on my screen. In my BIOS, there was an option to not let the integrated graphics adapter sleep. It was called "RC6 Render Standby" and I turned it off -- fixed!

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2015-09-03T20:44:33+00:00

What and where can I find BIOS?? Thank you.
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2015-08-01T16:01:11+00:00

Are you serious Sheshanarayana Ravishankar? After EIGHT pages of posts about the same issue! Then when someone has a solution available. Then you feel the need to chime in. Wow! I am most certain that you guys can do better than that.
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2015-07-20T14:07:51+00:00

by following the original suggestion: doing a hard reset. if still doesn't display at least the initial post to your screen, you have a different issue.
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2015-07-20T11:48:48+00:00

How can I do any of this if it won't wake up!

Windows 8 just updated yesterday
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