How to get your computer to come out of sleep or hibernation mode when it fails
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 03/02/2014 07:45 AM
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Occasionally people run into a problem getting their computer to start up if they leave it on for long periods of time or even if they never show up. This is one of those problems that can show up all of a sudden when it worked fine before.
One thing you can try is to push the power button quickly. Sometimes when the touch of the keyboard or shake of the mouse fails, this will wake your computer up.
If you are using a laptop remember that you should plug it in if you can. Power saving could put you into hibernation and make it more difficult to resume on a low battery.
Finally, you might want to disable power savings for some devices. Your USB devices and wired or wireless devices are a good place to start:
Go to Start, Control Panel, Power options.
Look for the selected plan and click on "Change plan settings", then "Change advanced power settings".
Now expand USB selective suspend settings (may be different names depending on operating system) and simply use the drop-down to disable as seen in the screenshot below.
A second choice would be to look for wired or wireless adapter settings and choose "Maximum Performance" in that drop-down.
There are a couple other things you can play with there but those two should solve your problem. Remember to always let your hard drive sleep because that's the most common thing to break in a computer so good drive health is important.
One thing you can try is to push the power button quickly. Sometimes when the touch of the keyboard or shake of the mouse fails, this will wake your computer up.
If you are using a laptop remember that you should plug it in if you can. Power saving could put you into hibernation and make it more difficult to resume on a low battery.
Finally, you might want to disable power savings for some devices. Your USB devices and wired or wireless devices are a good place to start:
Go to Start, Control Panel, Power options.
Look for the selected plan and click on "Change plan settings", then "Change advanced power settings".
Now expand USB selective suspend settings (may be different names depending on operating system) and simply use the drop-down to disable as seen in the screenshot below.
A second choice would be to look for wired or wireless adapter settings and choose "Maximum Performance" in that drop-down.
There are a couple other things you can play with there but those two should solve your problem. Remember to always let your hard drive sleep because that's the most common thing to break in a computer so good drive health is important.
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