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W520 & Sleep issue?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:30 am
by plympton
I have Win7Ultimate on my W520, and for some reason it wants to sleep after about 2 minutes, and ONLY after it has slept before. This is seriously a "WTF?" kinda thing - all timers are disabled in the Control Panels, and I can't figure out where or why it is set to sleep. I'm sure it's a glitch - there are a few other glitches as well (Firefox bookmark menu causes tearing - I don't think Optimus is ready for Prime-Time).
Is there a way to check things from the command-line or reset them? Are there registry settings I can poke around in?
I'd wipe-and-reload, but I've got all these tweaky settings that need attending... <sigh>
Anyone? Thanks!
-Dan
Re: W520 & Sleep issue?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:41 pm
by ausmike
Sorry you have this issue - I havrnt come across that on any W Series machines we got so far -
but we didnt have a report of two T530 with that (going to sleep regardless of what optiosn you chose) > so I RE-Installed PM and Driver for X64 - which was recently updated
Maybe you ought to try that
Hope that helps
Cheers
Re: W520 & Sleep issue?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:54 pm
by plympton
ausmike wrote:Sorry you have this issue - I havrnt come across that on any W Series machines we got so far -
but we didnt have a report of two T530 with that (going to sleep regardless of what optiosn you chose) > so I RE-Installed PM and Driver for X64 - which was recently updated
Maybe you ought to try that
Hope that helps
Cheers
Just re-installed PM, and going to install the Optimus driver to see if that helps. I've got a Win7Pro install that's almost tweaked & ready to go, but I don't want to fight my Firefox & Thunderbird settings.
There's also a new BIOS (UEFI BIOS? I'm assuming the EFI BIOS emulates old-school BIOS for most people), which I might throw on there for good measure.
Otherwise it's a great machine. Frustrating when your Join.me sessions get booted after 2 minutes of gawking, though... :-/.
Thanks!
-Dan
Re: W520 & Sleep issue?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 8:22 am
by davidhbrown
If you're technically inclined, you could take a look with
Powercfg.exe to to get a more detailed report on your current scheme, e.g.,
Code: Select all
C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -q
Power Scheme GUID: 8ac1bdbe-a8cf-4d81-ab30-c1d8d5cd3918 (Dave)
[....]
Subgroup GUID: 238c9fa8-0aad-41ed-83f4-97be242c8f20 (Sleep)
Power Setting GUID: 29f6c1db-86da-48c5-9fdb-f2b67b1f44da (Sleep after)
Minimum Possible Setting: 0x00000000
Maximum Possible Setting: 0xffffffff
Possible Settings increment: 0x00000001
Possible Settings units: Seconds
Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000384
Would be interesting to compare that output before and after your computer sleeps to see whether the power scheme is actually changing or if something else it going on.
Re: W520 & Sleep issue?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 1:16 pm
by plympton
Great advice! I got frustrated, and decided to go all Nuke-tastic on it.
I believe that something in the automated Settings transfer wizard brought some cruft with it. So, I wiped (again), reloaded (again), reinstalled (again), and manually dragged over my files & settings. That which didn't arrive, I probably didn't need (though I have an image, just in case). Today is an organizing day.
Poof, my graphical glitches & sleep issue (appears) to have gone away.
Happy Day.
-Dan