W520 & Sleep issue?

[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

[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

[plympton]

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

[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.,

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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.

[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