For laptops, it helps save the battery, but for both PC and laptop, you can prevent burn-in for the monitor screen. With the Windows operating system, there are several options you can use to conserve power when you’re not using your laptop or computer, like Sleep, Hibernate, and/or Hybrid Sleep. However, sometimes you can’t put the laptop to sleep, and this can be annoying because you may have other things you want to attend. Another option would be to want to keep it off such that others won’t access your documents, yet you don’t really want to shut it down completely. Sleep is usually controlled by your display driver, so if this happens, there could be something preventing your laptop from going to sleep, so try the troubleshooting fixes below to resolve the issue.

What to do if my laptop won’t go to sleep?

1. Scan for malware

Malware applications can cause sleep issues. That’s why you should scan your laptop for malware in order to resolve the issue. As always, you can use Windows Defender or your own antivirus program. However, if you want better security, we recommend you use a third-party antivirus as well. Many good security utilities have very high detection rates and are equipped with a complete set of features that ensure real-time protection against all threats. If you do not know where to start, you can try out a few options, because most worthy antivirus software have free trial versions.

2. Change Windows Update Services setting

3. Install version 9 or 10 of the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) driver

You do not need to uninstall version 11 before installing version 9 or 10. An existing version of the driver must be installed in order to install version 9 or 10. SPONSORED

4. Run the Windows 10 Show or Hide Updates troubleshooter package

Another option to consider is running the troubleshooter package. All you need to do is to hide updates to the MEI driver. This will block your system from automatically reinstalling or showing updates for version 11 of the MEI driver.

5. Reset the Update Services setting

You can also try to change the Windows Update Services setting from Manual back to Automatic (Delayed Start). After doing that, do not hesitate to restart your computer in order to complete the process.

6. Change the power settings in Windows

7. Disable Hybrid sleep

Hybrid sleep may cause your laptop not to go into sleep mode, but you can change the advanced power settings to disable this setting. use the above steps in that regard.

8. Generate Power Report

The power report can reveal why you can’t put your laptop to sleep. To run it, do as described above.

9. Easily fix the System Required Request error

One of the errors that cause your laptop not to sleep is the System Required Request: The device or driver has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep. Driver Name FileSystemsrvnet The SRVNET error is the most common culprit when you can’t put a laptop to sleep. To resolve it, consider applying the above tips. Did any of these solutions help? Let us know in the comments section below.

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