Sleep mode is an useful way to get your computer ready for use without wasting the power. Sometimes, you may find that the sleep mode does not work. It will bring inconvenience to us that you have to power down the laptop or the power will run out of in a short time. Is there any way to fix the sleep mode problems? Similar to other computer issues, we need to diagnose the problems to find the solutions.
Check sleep mode setting
First, you need to check the sleep mode settings. Go to control panel>Power options, click Choose when to turn off the display. Check if you have set up the option, Put the computer to sleep. You should not choose Never. The sleep mode is used to save your monitor from burn-in and prevent laptop from wasting its battery life. So the laptop cannot enter sleep mode will cause other problems.
Check the drivers
If your Windows driver is outdated, such as the chipset drivers, network drivers, BIOS drivers, you need to update them.
Check active power request
Some software installed on your computer may keep the computer to awake. So you need to check the power request. To achieve this, you need to open the elevated command prompt, type powercfg –requests in the window and press enter. It will list all the active power requests. You can learn from this list to know which program interfere with the sleep mode.
Troubleshoot your computer
Go to the control panel>Troubleshooting, click View all.Find the Power and System Maintenance to know if they can work normally.
Boot your computer in safe mode
You can boot your laptop in safe mode to know if it can go to sleep mode. If it can, you still need to perform a clean boot. Go to System Configuration, click the Service tab. Check the option of Hide all Microsoft services and click the Disable all button. Then you should open the task manager and disable all the items to launch at startup. Restart your system, you may found that you are able to go to sleep mode now.
PC recovery software to retrieve lost files
Whenever you have data loss, you can turn to the data recovery software for help. Whether you can recover all the data from your computer depends on the valid data on the hard drive. If your lost data have been overwritten by new data, they will never be recovered. The key to effective data recovery is a professional data recovery software and no data overwritten. Even if you have write some new data to the hard drive, you still have great chance to retrieve your data.