Is anyone suffering from PC Narcolepsy on Windows Vista or 7, where the system woken by Wake-on-LAN or a scheduled task goes back to sleep in two minutes? Not XP, where this setting is not available (a separate solution for XP is in development).
I’ve got a simple task written here to set the System Unattended Sleep Timer to something other than two minutes, but the computers in our lab don’t seem to suffer from PC Narcolepsy for various reasons.
Is anyone interested in trying out these tasks to see if they solve your problem? Any feedback would also be appreciated.
I am seeing this on a couple Windows 7 machines as well. I tried using the Wake On Lan web utility to wake them up, then one minute later it goes to sleep.
If you have something for me to test out I will gladly try it.
This fixlet seems to fix the problem. However, I think that the “PC Insomnia” fix forces the PC to sleep before the full Sleep Timer time has passed.
For example, I deployed this action and set the time to 90 minutes. However, BigFix will execute the Insomnia action about 30 minutes after being woken up. With the Insomnia action stopped, the computers will remain awake the full 90 minutes.
Can anything be done to make the Insomnia and Narcolepsy fixes play nice with each other?
Would it make more sense to have the Narcolepsy fixlet simply set the timeout to match the standby period of the current power setting, instead of asking for user input that may or may not be followed?
In my case, I would rather input the time. But I suppose some people may want the time to be the same as the idle sleep time.
We currently have our idle sleep time set to 1 hour and the Narcolepsy action set to 90 minutes. The problem is that the insomnia fix puts the computer to sleep 20 - 30 minutes after it woke up, which was the same problem with the normal windows idle sleep timer. So essentially your fix works for the normal Windows power savings, but it doesn’t change the fact that BigFix still thinks the computer should be sleeping. So BigFix eventually shows relevant on the Insomnia fixlet and forces the computer to sleep long before the Windows System Unattended Sleep Timer has finished.