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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
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!
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.
What and where can I find BIOS?? Thank you.
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?
I finally had to disable hibernate, why, I don't know, this all started after the last windows 10 update. Before that, the computer would come out of hibernate with no problem.
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!
it would be really helpful if you could give a step-by-step of this... it seems you have the perfect solution, but unfortunately i don't know how to edit this 'BIOS' and where to find this 'RC6' thingamajig.
your help is greatly appreciated.
