PC won't sleep automatically?

jkteddy77

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Let me list what I've already tried so we get right to things I haven't tried
-Allowed sleep with remote opens in power options
-Disabled wake timers in power options
-Allowed computer to sleep when sharing media in power settings
-Disabled the Homegroup Listener, Homegroup Provide, and Windows Media Player Network Sharing Services to exile homegroup from keeping it up.
-Tried "powercfg -energy" to produce an energy report and no warnings came up that could be hindering sleep (only suspended USB, which says that it doesn't affect sleep)
-"powercfg requestsoverride" to "srvnet" for both System and Awaymode incase that was the issue.
-"powercfg requests" shows absolutely no processes, drivers, etc. that are requesting it stay up. All list "None" every time I check
-Only my primary mouse and keyboard are checked to allow PC to wake, and it still doesn't sleep even with those unchecked completely.
-updated all Mobo USB and Sata drivers incase those were being picky, didn't help.

Now note, the PC's Display will go out, but the PC will not sleep automatically. It just sits with displays off and PC/Mouse/Keyboard running.
Sometimes it will sleep fine, but other times I feel as though if I do certain things or windows does certain things, it develops insomnia until I restart the PC again. I have narrowed down that PC gaming, video streaming, and web browsing don't keep it awake, as it will still sleep if I do those all after a fresh PC start. Cannot narrow it down.

Just another notice, I have AI Suite 3 for my mobo, and its Awaymode profile when enabled doesn't put the PC to sleep, it sits awake with the displays turned off, but if I manually "Sleep" through windows, it goes right to sleep.
Not sure if AI Suite 3's Awaymode is supposed to allow the PC to sleep or if it is malfunctioning and taking over Windows Automated sleep profile with its own Awaymode instead?
I'm really not sure

Any help here would be very appreciated
 
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9 times out of 10 this is the result of a 3rd party software interrupting the "sleep mode" shutdown... usually a gpu related software OR a motherboard manufacturer's related software

so yes. it's highly likely something in the AI suite is blocking the pc from entering sleepmode. try exiting out of the ai suite and see if it sleeps automatically then. the asus software package is pretty worthless anyway.
9 times out of 10 this is the result of a 3rd party software interrupting the "sleep mode" shutdown... usually a gpu related software OR a motherboard manufacturer's related software

so yes. it's highly likely something in the AI suite is blocking the pc from entering sleepmode. try exiting out of the ai suite and see if it sleeps automatically then. the asus software package is pretty worthless anyway.
 
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