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Have you perchance setup a keyboard shortcut to put the computer to sleep?
--Joe
Is your BIOS/UEFI up-to-date? Is your display driver up-to-date?
--Joe
Never mind. The solution is comical: I occasionally wear acupuncture magnets on my wrists/palm to treat or prevent whatever. They were triggering the lid-close magnet sensor.
solved
from @krism: “Never mind. The solution is comical: I occasionally wear acupuncture magnets on my wrists/palm to treat or prevent whatever. They were triggering the lid-close magnet sensor.”
I will definitely have to remember that one.
Yes that is funny, funnier than what I was going to suggest : Write something more exciting so your computer does not fall asleep on you.
Oops I see is was not solved, no humor yet in order.
Though I have marked this solved because my original problem of sporadic sleep was solved, I now find that regardless of the sleep settings, at about 5 minutes the lock screen appears and perhaps 45 seconds later, screen goes to black. While this doesn’t bother me particularly, As an experiment I set everything to 15min. no change. same thing at 5 min.
anybody know why?
Two guesses hoping that one of them is the reason for the settings not taking effect after you’ve set them.
The first is that perhaps for some reason the settings aren’t making it into the registry in the right location in order to take effect after having been set.
The second guess is that perhaps for the settings to take effect, you need to reboot the laptop. During the reboot, the computer is supposed to read the registry and apply any settings contained therein.
I hope this helps!
Hey there. I’d suggest checking Personalization > Lock screen > Screen saver Settings. It may be set to 5 mins with a Blank Screen saver (eg Black screen)
Technically neither the screensaver or power settings should trigger while you’re active doing something as typing so something is certainly messing up there but I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else that hasn’t already been suggested atm. Good luck!
I did not get a notification of your post, thus my delay in answering, BUT, you get the prize! I looked at the settings (below) and changed the time to 11 and screen appropriately went black at 10min. it says none, but I believe I added the checkmark to open with lock screen (because early on this laptop would not present lock screen when lid raised (see ribbon repair) ) and that may have done it. I don’t understand it, but for the second time, SOLVED. THANKS!!!
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