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My Student Laptop Forgets How Wi-Fi Works After Unplugging The Charger

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in Device Manager > Network adapters > your Wi-Fi adapter > Properties > Power Management, untick Allow teh computer to turn off this device to save power. this is the most common cause of Wi-Fi not coming back after sleep.

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  1. Vik Schmidt
    @vschmidt_30

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im getting realy tired of this.. xD student laptop, Wi-Fi works perfectly all day until I put it to sleep. After unplugging the charger, this:

    Network & internet

    Network & internet
Wi-Fi  •  HomeNet_5G
No internet, secured

Connected, but nothing loads. Troubleshoot problems?

    other devices in the house are fine, so the router isn't the problem. the Wi-Fi driver updated through Windows Update recently, and teh timing lines up perfectly, i've already tried forgetting teh network and reconnecting, what settings should i look at before i roll teh driver back?

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  2. Aiden Haddad
    @aiden.haddad

    hmmm what does powercfg /a say about available sleep states? ??

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  4. Tess Ueda
    @cipher_monk

    ok update: did what @maya_tiny said and its fine now thank u thank u thank u

    thumbsup

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  5. Tess Ueda
    @cipher_monk
    in reply to @cipher_monk

    On the Advanced tab of the same adapter, look for options like MIMO Power Save Mode, Roaming Aggressiveness or Power Saving Mode and set power saving to the maximum performance/disabled value as a test. lmk how it goes

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  6. Maya
    @maya_tiny

    Check what sleep state u use: run powercfg /a in a terminal. If it shows Standby (S0 Low Power Idle), thats Modern Standby, which relies heavily on the network driver behaving. Getting the Wi-Fi driver from the laptop makers support page is often more reliable here.

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  7. Maya
    @maya_tiny

    oh ive been there lol if it started with the update, roll back: Device Manager > adapter > Properties > Driver > Roll Back Driver. if its greyed out, install teh previous package from teh Wi-Fi chip makers or laptop makers support page.

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  8. Aiden Haddad
    @aiden.haddad

    @vschmidt_30 did u ever fix it?. same issue here on my brand new build. no idea whats going on ?

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  10. Aiden Haddad
    @aiden.haddad

    Look in Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System around the wake time for events from the Wi-Fi driver or WLAN-AutoConfig. A driver that fails to resume usually logs an error there. hope that helps :)

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  12. Mila Sorensen
    @mila_vector

    oof honestly just reset the cable and save yourself teh pain good luck man!

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  13. Aiden Haddad
    @aiden.haddad
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    in Device Manager > Network adapters > your Wi-Fi adapter > Properties > Power Management, untick Allow teh computer to turn off this device to save power. this is the most common cause of Wi-Fi not coming back after sleep.

    printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

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  14. Tess Ueda
    @cipher_monk

    following, having the same problem... which version are you on?

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  15. Tess Ueda
    @cipher_monk

    im literally losing my mind here my old thinkpad is officially haunted

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  16. Vik Schmidt
    @vschmidt_30
    in reply to @aiden.haddad

    @aiden.haddad WOWWW rolled back Fatal1ty X79 Professional Lan Driver and the problem vanished. ill wait for a newer release before trying again.

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