Won't enter sleep and stay in sleep Win11 24H2

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My computer won’t go to sleep and/or won’t stay asleep.

When I command it to go to sleep (with the lid open), the screen goes black for ~1 second, then it goes to the lockscreen, then after a bit it eventually goes black. The power button LED stays lit throughout this, except for one flash off within a few seconds of me commanding it to go to sleep.

If I wait a few minutes, eventually the power button LED will usually start the fade-in/fade-out glowing which is the normal indication for sleeping. But if I wait a few more minutes, the screen turns on and it shows the lock screen again.

It’s driving me nuts as it’s been doing it for months now while I’ve tried various things to fix it. I thought it might be Discord, or the new free Outlook app, or an external mouse. I think it may be multiple causes, but I continue having the issue when all I have connected is the charger.

  • Win11 24H2
  • Framework Laptop 16 w/ AMD 7940HS
  • Installed Driver Bundle 2025-04-02 and BIOS 3.05 from Framework Laptop 16 BIOS and Driver Releases
  • BIOS reset to defaults many times, with only customizations being Battery Extender and optimizing RAM for gaming (which the explanation says allocates 4GB of RAM to GPU rather than just 2GB).

Windows Event Logs are pretty unhelpful. If I try waking it up using the touchpad, I get the expected event “The system is exiting Modern Standby. Reason: Input Touchpad.” But if I just leave the computer alone, after the screen turns itself back on the events are “The system is exiting Modern Standby. Reason: Input Mouse” and “The system session has transitioned from 225 to 226. Reason: InputHid BootId: 81” This is extremely unhelpful because I have no mouse connected, just the built-in touchpad.

I’ve tried using all of these which is what led me to look at Discord and Outlook. But the issue continues even when powercfg shows nothing.

powercfg /waketimers
powercfg /lastwake
powercfg /requests
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

I also tried these instructions:

  1. First run - powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
    (Don’t close the window)
  2. Then put your PC to sleep and wake the PC from your mouse,
  3. Then run - powercfg /lastwake

But powercfg is not saying an app is causing it, which aligns with the Windows event log which blames it on “Input Mouse”.

To be clear, this happens with nothing connected besides the power cord. Removing the power cord does seem to help, but that should not be necessary. And it doesn’t completely eliminate the issue right away. It’s possible if I unplug and wait awhile, then it eventually eliminates the issue on its own, but I’m not a fan of leaving it unplugged when I’m not using it.

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Hi @Micah_Lindstrom,

I think many of us have just relegated ourselves to using the Hibernate function in Windows for this reason and the fact it is only takes seconds longer than coming out of standby. This way it is for sure off and will not “wake on its own” in a bag potentially cooking itself.

It is turned off as an available option by default on Windows 11 (the ability to select it from the power menu that is) a quick google search will show you how to enable it. I have it setup so when I push my power button it will hibernate automatically and it has been great.

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