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    HDD keeps going to sleep and wakes on AW15 Win10

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Durendal, Nov 24, 2015.

  1. Durendal

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    Hi,
    yesterday I have encountered a strange issue. I left my Alienware 15 on Balanced plan with "Disk turn off" set to Never for both Battery and PlugIn mode. However, when screen goes dark after some minutes (5min I got set), disk is also switched off. Then it constatly be switch on and off every several seconds... After 30 min (I have sleep switched off) it was almost 100 start/stop cycles... When I have power plug in, HDD is not stopping. It looks like HDD or OS is not taking into account power settings if PC is on battery... Do you have any idea why disc is sleeping and waking up when screen is set off? How to change this?

    I will add, that this is only visible on balanced power mode. On High Performance there is no issue. I have switch off hdd set to never on both power plans
     
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    Durendal, Nov 24, 2015
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