Windows 10: Laptop sleep no longer works when plugged in

So a couple of days back my laptop suddenly stopped sleeping properly after pressing sleep as it only dims the screen but everything in the background is still running. I managed to find a workaround which is setting my laptop to automatically sleep after 30 minutes, but even that has stopped working today.

But when I unplug the power the laptop sleeps just fine, whether it's pressing the sleep button or closing the lid.

So far I've tried disabling all wake timers from powercfg, restore all power options, new power options, power troubleshooter, windows update, bios reset, shutting down all running processes before sleeping, and none of them worked.

I've already factory reset my laptop once and it ended up pretty bad so I'm not looking into that option rn. Any help?

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Require sign-in after sleep not working (plugged in only)

Hi Bernard,

Thank you for the suggestions!

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have changed the behavior of my laptop after attempting all the steps you listed above.

It reset some of my display power preferences, like changing the brightness on battery power, but otherwise I didn't notice any changes after resetting the power profiles. The power troubleshooter didn't find any issues either.

I think the computer simply does not fall asleep at all. I noticed the activity light on the side of the laptop goes dark when I shut it on battery power, but it continues blinking when I shut it while plugged in. Furthermore, pressing the power button (which
is currently set to make the computer Sleep) also just turns off the screen and the computer does not actually sleep, just like shutting the lid.

If you have any other suggestions, I would love to hear them.

 

Windows 10 Sleep Mode no longer working

I upgraded to Windows 10 with no issues. After about a week, sleep mode stopped working. It works fine if I force it into sleep mode by selecting Power...Sleep. But, it will no longer go into sleep on it's own once the specified time interval has elapsed.
I tried a couple of suggestions offered on this subject:

Under advanced settings.....Multimedia.... I set "Sharing Media" to "Allow to sleep".

Under sleep I enabled "Hybrid Sleep".

Neither of the above had any affect. Are there any other suggestions? Perhaps there is a way of determining which function is causing the laptop to NOT enter sleep mode?

Thanks.

 

Laptop does not sleep when plugged in

Hi

My laptop does not enter sleep mode according to the power settings used when it's plugged into AC power. I have reset all my power settings to default, but it still does not work. The laptop only enters sleep mode according to the power settings when it
is running on battery.

I have Googled and tried numerous "solutions" offered by people having sleep issues with Windows but none of them work.

I would greatly appreciate a solution to making the sleep setting work when it's plugged in since this is how I usually use my laptop.

Thanks