Last night I was running a lengthy series of jobs: the intent was to have them run overnight: the machine is plugged-in and NOT running on battery power. I woke up this morning to find the PC had been put into sleep mode for some reason and the jobs were NOT finished.
Is there another setting that needs to be considered or is there a good place to start troubleshooting as to why the machine shutdown on its own?
Any suggestions to improve the question is appreciated. I can not be the only person to suffer this problem: re-opening with an improve question will help future users
61 Answer
Check the advanced power plan settings by clicking on Change advanced power settings:
In the menu that opens you have to check if your HDD is set to turn off after 0 minutes (never):
and if Sleep and Hybrid sleep are off:
