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Windows will not go to sleep windows restarts instead of sleeping

#1 PakiBaller4Lyfe

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 01:52 PM

Everytime i hit sleep, about 99% of the time it just restarts my computer. i've ran malware byte's and removed everything from there. i did a virus scan with symantec antivirus and cleaned everything up from there as well. What are all the remaining steps i need to check to fix this? this never used to happen until recently.

#2 garmanma

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 05:30 PM

Corrupt video drivers can play tricks with Standby/Hibernate
Try replacing yours

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#3 keny111111

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 10:27 PM

hello

this is a link to change the sleep button. maybe somehow yours got changed. this will help you check and see.

hope this helps.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...s-to-shut-down/

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#4 PakiBaller4Lyfe

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Posted 18 April 2009 - 09:17 PM

i checked my sleep settings already. those are fine. i also set devices under BIOS not to awaken computer from USB ports. as well as LAN to keep it from waking up computer either. now the computer will even restart from hitting the shutdown button as well.

#5 keny111111

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Posted 18 April 2009 - 09:42 PM

PakiBaller4Lyfe, on Apr 18 2009, 10:17 PM, said:

i also set devices under BIOS not to awaken computer from USB ports. as well as LAN to keep it from waking up computer either. now the computer will even restart from hitting the shutdown button as well.

sounds like you need to reset your BIOS back to default settings !!! :huh:

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#6 PakiBaller4Lyfe

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Posted 19 April 2009 - 06:45 PM

the reason i changed my BIOS to do that was in attempt to keep it from starting the computer back up. it was doing this under normal settings to begin with. if i set it back to on, it can add to re awakening the computer...