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Yesterday, the "sleep" option disappeared from my power options. When I go into control panel--hardware and sound--power options--system settings to define power buttons/change what the power buttons do, the only options are shut down, hibernate, turn off the display, or do nothing. Sleep is not an option on this menu or in the regular settings menu where you decide what you want your power settings to be. As of two days ago, I could hit the windows button the machine and then select sleep to put the computer to sleep. Now, that option is gone with seemingly no way to restore it. I am on a desktop, so there is no physical sleep button I can push.
I ran the command prompt to re-enable hibernation support and then verify which sleep states Windows reports as available, and got the following from the command prompt:
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Hibernate
Fast Startup
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Graphics
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Graphics
Standby (S3)
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Graphics
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Hybrid Sleep
Standby (S3) is not available.
The hypervisor does not support this standby state.
So this isn't actually a windows/microsoft issue I guess. Is rolling back whatever recent update was made to the relevant firmware the only option? Should I just wait and hope they fix it in their next update? Is it worth contacting the graphics card company to mention the problem?
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Hi,
I quick fix for it should be there.
Please supply the following Information.
Right-click the Start button and Choose the Run option
Type in msinfo32
Press enter.
Take a screenshot of the System Summary window and post it in the next reply.
I look forward to your response and am eager to collaborate until we find a solution.
I was able to get myself back up and running. For some reason, after the last windows update, my graphics card driver got deleted (?? how?). Reinstalling it fixed the issue.
