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I realize this probably has been asked before but I've tried everything in this thread and still nothing has worked: Why won't my computer go to sleep automatically?

Summary: PC is no longer going to sleep automatically or even turning off the monitor. I can manually put it to sleep and awake it with no issues. I currently have it set to sleep after 1 minute for testing.

Running Win 10 Enterprise x64

Things I've tried:

  • Removed all peripherals, mouse, keyboard
  • Closed all applications
  • Windows fully updated
  • Disabled wake timers
  • Checked power plan and disabled all "keep pc awake" settings; disabled hybrid sleep, enabled allow computer to sleep with media
  • Checked device manager and made sure nothing can wake PC.
  • Checked Task Scheduler for running tasks and ended them
  • I use Plex Media Server, but I've tested shutting down the service.

cmd powercfg /requests or /waketimers shows nothing: https://i.sstatic.net/eZ356.jpg

Only recent changes to my PC have been adding a Gigabyte RTX 3070 GPU and I added a new monitor so now I have two.

I feel like I've tried everything I could find on google so now I'm trying here. Thanks in advance to anyone reading this.

coolbreess
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Well, after posting this. I saw a post in the sidebar that caught my attention: Windows 10 Desktop PC will not go to sleep automatically based on set idle timer no matter what I try. What else can I try? An answer from user Aenfa, who posted an AutoHotkey script that helped isolate the issue:

loop
{
  Sleep, 500
  Tooltip, %A_TimeIdle%
}

ESC::
ExitApp

I ran the script and started unplugging things and found that the issue was with my PS4 controller connected via usb. I was sure I had unplugged it to test, so either I didn't wait long enough, or some other things I tried helped as well.

coolbreess
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