Only while plugged in, the Laptop screen(goes black) doesn't respond after idle screen timeout.

Anonymous
2020-10-20T05:51:57+00:00

Hello there,

I've been facing this issue since 2 years now, seems like a simple problem but mine is really weird, I didn't get any query regarding my issue hence I decided to post it myself. Please read my post completely and please help me resolve this issue.

When I leave the laptop (HP Pavilion 15-cc1xx, win 10 64 bit, Intel core i5-8250U) idle, the screen turns off to save power & doesn't respond to any inputs even external connected USB mouse light turns off (I saw that when this happens the HDD LED turns off I suppose the HDD is not waking). After screen turn off it is suppose to go to sleep but the power LED and fans are continuously on until I hard reboot using power button.

Here is the weird part--- This only happens if my laptop is plugged in and doesn't occur while on battery. The power options screen is shared below

I've tried doing almost all troubleshooting like updating drivers, BIOS, and sfc scan and also reset but all in vain.

Sometimes, this also happens when I put it to sleep, but this sleep issue occurs very rarely cannot predict when it happens I've to hold my breath when I press sleep and wait until the power LED starts blinking for confirmation or else I've to again hard reboot only to loose unsaved data. Although this sleep issue happens very very rarely.

I think the issue is only with HDD since the HDD LED stops blinking when this happens ***.***When it is blinking then I'm sure that the screen will turn on as I've seen it for myself many times.

Here is the picture of power and HDD LED I was talking about,

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-21T06:15:10+00:00

    Try these last steps.

    1. Click on the Windows Start button, type, and then open Device Manager
    2. Locate System devices and expand the trail
    3. Locate and right click on "Intel (R) Management Engine Interface" then select Properties
    4. Select Power management tap
    5. And uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
    6. Save it and close it.

    Turn off Fast Startup

    1-Click on Windows Start button

    Type control.exe and open Control Panel

    2-Go to Power Options -> Choose what the power button does

    3-Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable

    4-Uncheck Turn on Fast Startup

    5-Make sure you press Save changes button

    6-Close the window

    Please check this link for more information.

    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Knowled...

    Tried it. Even these are not working

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-21T05:50:55+00:00

    Hi Chaitanya,

    Good to hear from you. If I were you I will go for clean install because HP has no solution right now for you.

    Good luck

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-21T05:41:21+00:00

    I've not seen that article before but now I saw it and there are all same steps which are discussed here.

    I did contact HP but even they are giving the same suggestions. I think I'll just do the clean install again using USB if don't find any fix to this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-21T04:55:55+00:00

    Try these last steps.

    1. Click on the Windows Start button, type, and then open Device Manager
    2. Locate System devices and expand the trail
    3. Locate and right click on "Intel (R) Management Engine Interface" then select Properties
    4. Select Power management tap
    5. And uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
    6. Save it and close it.

    Turn off Fast Startup

    1-Click on Windows Start button

    Type control.exe and open Control Panel

    2-Go to Power Options -> Choose what the power button does

    3-Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable

    4-Uncheck Turn on Fast Startup

    5-Make sure you press Save changes button

    6-Close the window

    Please check this link for more information.

    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Knowled...

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