If you’re a notebook user, chances are you’ve encountered an issue with getting your computer to go to sleep peacefully. Something is either keeping it from drifting off to the land of 0’s and 1’s, or it can’t stay asleep, the hard drive just keeps tossing and turning and you open your bag to find a notebook so hot you could cook an egg on it.
What are the most common causes of notebook sleep issues?
- A process running on the system does not allow the system to enter sleep mode.
- A hardware interrupt, such as some peripheral devices for example.
- An unstable driver which does not properly support sleep states or is just buggy.
I’ve owned several notebooks over the years, and almost every one of them have had an issue with sleep mode in one way or another, and over time I’ve learned a certain "practice" which ensures that sleep mode generally works when I close the lid of my computer…