Windows 11 battery draining in sleep mode

Anonymous
2021-10-11T15:47:45+00:00

Hi everyone,

After the upgrade to Windows 11, I've found that my laptop won't go to sleep after closing the lid. The fan keeps making noise with the lid closed, and the battery is drained.

When opening the lid again, the computer won't respond to anything (blank screen, power button does nothing, keyboard doesn't respond), but it's active because the fan is working.

This was working fine before the upgrade and is a major problem, because the battery dies pretty quickly.

Laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 530 i7 8 GB ram.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best!

David

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Sleep and Power on, off

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T02:31:59+00:00

    That is correct. when I close the lid, the laptop also mutes but DHCP is still running, and take more battery. and win 10 I don't have this problem, and I didn't test specifically on win 10. I want to use win 11 and fix this error somehow simply. currently, when I want to sleep, l turns off Wi-Fi. It will work fine.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T02:33:33+00:00

    can you expand information? I still don't quite understand what you are saying

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-30T19:35:35+00:00

    Brand new laptop came with Windows 11.

    I've noticed that it doesn't actually sleep in sleep mode. The battery still drains at roughly the same rate as when I'm using the laptop, the body of the computer remains warm as if it's still running.

    How do I get it to actually sleep during sleep mode? Sleep mode in virtually every other computer I've used at least doubles the battery life but this sleep mode doesn't function at all.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-30T22:28:54+00:00

    Hi DM_1701,

    Good day! This is Jhakesong and I will be happy to assist you with this.

    I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience. Some settings might be affecting the computer to actually go into sleep mode. Here is a guide on how to troubleshoot sleep mode feature that is not working. Hope it helps.

    https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-sleep-mode....

    Let me know how it goes. Have a great day!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-01T01:02:29+00:00

    Hi JhakeSong,

    I wish I had done a more scientific procedure to see which setting actually fixed the issue, but it seems like all the changes made while going through that page has had a positive effect. I'd like to see if this is consistent over the next couple days. If so, I will mark this as the solution.

    Thank you!

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