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Boot Camp Win 10 wake problems on Macbook Pro

I haven't paid too much attention to this, since I don't boot into Windows terribly often, but I noticed that if I allow my Macbook Pro to go to sleep while booted into Windows 10, I cannot wake it back up. This also occurred when I had Windows 8.1 installed prior to cleanly installing Windows 10. Note that I have attempted using both the macbook's keyboard, a wireless keyboard with USB dongle and an apple wireless keyboard/magic trackpad. None of these seem to wake the machine at all. I checked all input devices and all are set to wake the computer. Short of disabling sleep, which I don't want to do, I am out of ideas as to what could be causing it. Each time, I have to completely reboot the machine by holding the power button to get back into it. I should note that I have only allowed the laptop to sleep while the lid is closed, so I cannot confirm if this happens with the lid open--however, I have Windows configured to not sleep if I close the lid on both power and battery. Any thoughts into this issue are very much welcome.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Aug 22, 2015 8:52 PM

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Bevi

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Posted on Sep 9, 2017 7:54 PM

Here's what worked for me...

(Apple OS X 10.12 Sierra, Bootcamp, & Windows 10 Pro 64-bit)

Made sure Bootcamp's start-up disc was set identically through both the Mac Bootcamp manager application as well as the Windows Bootcamp Control Panel. I set mine to Windows on both platform.
The Windows platform clock needs to be reset. Follow the instructions in this Microsoft forum post:

Microsoft Community See the 2nd post from Senator949 on August 13, 2015, beginning with "And the fix is:"

Instructions are reproduced here in case the links/threads get messed up over time.

1. Open a Commnad Prompt window

(Run as Administrator by right-clicking on the executable)

and enter the following command:

C:\WINDOWS\system32> bcdedit /set

useplatformclock true

2. Verify that useplatformclock is on/true. (Run the following below and check that the result is listed as useplatformclock Yes)

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit/enum

Screen returns the following. Scroll to the lower section and confirm useplatformclock Yes

Windows Boot Manager

--------------------

...

Windows Boot Loader

-------------------

...

useplatformclock Yes

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

3. Restart the computer then test the SLEEP function.

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Rokyo

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Sep 8, 2015 10:54 AM in response to peterthegreat657

This totally worked! You just saved my life! Well, you saved me from buying a Dell XPS.... 😉

Sep 8, 2015 10:56 AM in response to Rokyo

Haha that's almost as bad as dying so glad I could help 😉

iphonik4

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Sep 9, 2015 4:54 AM in response to amrobx

Same here 😟 signing in my MS account didn't help and as I'm from the Czech Republic I cannot enable Cortana yet.

amrobx Author

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Oct 8, 2015 5:28 AM in response to hzonhzon

Great news! Will check this out.

Oct 8, 2015 7:16 PM in response to hzonhzon

Thank you so much. It seems worked.

johnnyo5

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Nov 6, 2015 9:25 PM in response to johnnyo5

I spoke to soon. The technique I outlined didn't help. My MBP is again not able to wake up from sleep. :-(

nisalm

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Apr 19, 2016 1:06 AM in response to amrobx

Looks like it is an issue Windows 10 : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-power/windows-10-goe s-into-sleep-mode-automatically/ce1caf3c…

nisalm

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Apr 20, 2016 8:04 AM in response to amrobx

Here's the fix : http://wp.me/p4kqiM-bi

nisalm

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Apr 26, 2016 6:18 AM in response to amrobx

I'm sorry. That fix was temporary. Having the same issue again

mtirathm

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Apr 20, 2017 8:17 AM in response to amrobx

I am having same isaue in my macbook with windows 8.1 and its resolved after i update display drivers. I hope it will help you also.

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