dean-dean

Try this.

Open Command Prompt and type

powercfg -a

Press Enter on your keyboard. This reports the available sleep states on
your system, and attempts to report why sleep states are unavailable.

Another consideration is to update your display adapter driver, if that's
possible.

"BuzzLightyear" <BuzzLightyear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> sorry, but that didn't work for me...
>
> "dean-dean" wrote:
>
>> You might want to check out this setting.
>>
>> Go to Control Panel\Power Options, and under your chosen Plan, on the
>> right-side of the window, choose "Change plan settings".
>>
>> On the new Edit Plan Settings window, click on "Change advanced power
>> settings". A new dialog will pop up. Expand the "Multimedia settings"
>> entry, and then expand the "When sharing media" entry. Change it to
>> "Allow
>> the computer to sleep" (Apply, OK).