No sleep mode with GA connected?

Has anyone found a way to put their laptop to sleep while the graphics amp is connected? Honestly, I haven't dug into settings yet. I've only noticed that when I close the laptop display, the laptop no longer sleeps.

Anyone know if there is a setting? Or would I just be wasting my time looking for a way to allow it to sleep with the GA connected?

 

Check the power settings in control panel. "Change what closing the lid does" option.

 

Also, you might want to look at the PCIe settings in the windows power management settings. I seem to remember an option in there that would modify something or other when sleeping and PCIe devices.

 

I'll have to check that.

On a related note, the option to put the laptop to sleep is completely gone from the start button when the GA is connected.

 

It may be a tweak in the driver to disable that option because it could cause issues. I'll check on our lab and let you know my findings ASAP.

 

Awesome! Thank you, good sir!

 

I just want to echo what this guy said. I've been using the GA with the latest Nvidia beta drivers and I have no option to sleep anywhere. Even when I go to create a power plan, the only options I have is to restart or shut down.

 

Yeah it's a drag when you step away from the laptop for a "minute"...only to get caught up doing something for an hour instead. Then you come back to the laptop and find it still chugging away.

 

@Alienware-L_Porras Any news on this? I've also discovered that on top of a lack of sleep mode, if I leave it running for say an hour or so not only does it not sleep, but the whole system actually locks up. I have to hard shutdown as the system doesn't respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes. I don't like my new system completely locking every time I leave it idle and it doesn't go to sleep!

 

Bump...

One more time before engaging tech support and/or returning items.

 

The locking up definitely sounds like a driver issue. The sleep mode is something I have not experienced myself mainly because I do not use sleep mode though so I can't help you there.

 

Mine sleeps fine - both the GA and the laptop power down.

 

Seriously? That's almost unbelievable. What GPU are you using and which Nvidia drivers are you running?

 

Agreed...I'm sure its some combination of the driver and the fact that the laptop should be going to sleep, but instead it sits there running.

 

Yeah we need more detail to help. Which laptop, which video card in the GA, which driver?

Truth and I both don't even have a sleep option anymore...much less any luck with it going to sleep after sitting idle for a while.

 

I have the exact same rig and I have the GTX980 in the GA, no sleep or hibernate options. I went through all of the windows stuff and they just are not there. Any help would be awesome.

 

Obviously trolling.

 

^^Obviously trolling.

GA disables sleep by design - no matter what GFX card you have and it is NOT the GFX card drivers.

Imagine you disconnect the GA thinking that your laptop was shutdown but it was only asleep? Dell/Alienware need to work out a way so the board does some kind of smart switching between the GA and internal board in order to get sleep back. But for now, we don't have that feature.

 

Thanks, I thought it might be something like that. Cheers!

 

I'm kind of annoyed that anyone would just accept this the way it is. It's almost a waste of even opening this thread.

Is there a way to override the bios? A custom bios? A custom driver? Registry hack? Third party program? Something. Anything. But accepting "oh it's how it's supposed to be? Ok." Is not acceptable with a problem this large.

What are we? Commoners? We just roll over when someone tells us the earth is flat?

 

The latest BIOS and GA software (released I the last couple of days) mention something about power states. Has anyone tried to see if these updates allow the laptop to sleep?

 

I just left my laptop + GA by itself for about an hour, and to my surprise, it fell asleep.
As well, Sleep and Hibernation options are present as well.

 

I know that a majority of you are on laptops, but the aga actually let my desktop sleep too. X51r3 slept and hibernated just like normal.

 

Am I SOL? http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/alienware-15/drivers the last bios update was in 2015 for my computer. Or am I looking in the wrong place?

update:
just ran the update in the link i posted and it's still the same for me.

 

Given you have the R1 (the Skylake laptops got a BIOS update), the best you can do is update the GA software.

 

when i run it, it says "the installation package is not compatible with this computer". My GA is always plugged in.

from Dell website :
Computer Model
Alienware 15
BIOS Vendor
Alienware
BIOS Version
A06
BIOS Date
7/24/2015
OS Version
Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise

 

Strange, I wonder why it only works with the Skylake laptops. The launch version of the software used to work with the Haswell/Broadwell laptops.

 

I installed the aw13 version, it installed.. No sleep though

This thread is about a custom fw. Is there a simple way for me to make my own? With just the sleep fix? When the official one with it comes (if it does) I'll update. http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-15-r2-17-r2-and-r3-performance-vbios.780158/

 

Having a custom vBIOS won't help, and you can't unlock/modify the [system] BIOS with these laptops unless you soldered a custom BIOS chip (I think).
Seems like old laptops won't get such a feature. If something changed in the BIOS level to enable Sleep/Hibernate, I'm skeptical you can just edit the registry to enable them.