Sleepy Computer

For the past few months, the computer has been going to sleep from time to time despite powercfg -requests showing that an audio stream is active. I can detect no pattern to this. This morning, after the music was playing for perhaps one hundred fifty minutes, the music stopped and the computer went to sleep.

So far, I have only encountered this when using Google Chrome so that I don't accidentally close a tab in Firefox, being used to listen to SiriusXM or the Albuquerque, NM, classical station, KHFM. I was listening to the latter today as the restoration of the power line to the mountaintop main translator had to be shut down again for a few days, so I started Google and logged on to the station. I am not certain if the strange sleep event has happened with SiriusXM. A search on-line and here did not turn up any information about the problem.

No problems with power settings; The monitor and the computer go to sleep when they should and I am not using the machine. For example, the computer normally goes to sleep after two hours, nor the two and one-half hours of today's occurrence.

Does it happen in Edge as well? If you have extensions in Chrome disable them and see if it still happens.

glasskuter said:

Does it happen in Edge as well? If you have extensions in Chrome disable them and see if it still happens.

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1. I don't know if it happens when using Edge, and it might take a very long time to determine that, given that I normally only use Google Chrome once a week to listen to SiriusXM. Yesterday was an exception, as KHFM had to turn off its main transmitter again so that the electrical coop could make some final changes to its line damaged during a wild fire. Trying to find out if the problem is present when using Edge could be trying to prove a negative.

2. Extensions in Chrome: Malwarebytes Browser Guard and Print Edit WE. As with testing with Edge, disabling these could be another attempt to prove a negative.