pastrychef
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Thanks a lot for your reply!
I left the PC last night and found it in sleep. At some point the sleep worked.
This morning I realised I hadn't unticked the bluetooth option "Allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer".
Now sleep works (You have no idea how many attempts and test I tried yesterday).
Maybe, I say maybe, that option with this bluetooth module and bluetooth devices was causing the bounce from sleep. Maybe a signal from the mouse during the sleep attempt was registered from the module so it was bouncing.
Now it seems working.
Thanks again!
I have another question. This motherboard with the i7 8700 seems to be consuming loads of power.
On a Asus Prime Z370-A II with the sane CPU I see a power consumption when testing Cinebench of around 93W at 4.3Ghz. This motherboard's consumption is 114W. In both boards Load Line is at Level 2, but I tested Level 1 with no difference. I've seen ASRock motherboard run Cinebench all core for the same CPU with 85W.
This motherboard doesn't have a bios setting for the "Typical", "Worst Case Scenario" though.
I offset the volts to - 0.040 BUT the improvement is really marginal, maybe only 3/4W.
How do I get it to 93W or better BUT without cutting the power settings and decreasing clock speed?
Do I need to rite to Asus?
Thanks a lot.
I have "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" enabled. Clicking my Magic Mouse 2 or Magic Trackpad 1 are the only ways I wake system. If I disable that feature, the only other method I would have to wake my system would be to press the power button...
If you are measuring power consumption from the wall, you should also consider other things you have installed in your system such as number hard drives, PCI-e cards, etc. 93W or 114W is extremely efficient when compared to my system. I idle at ~110W... But I have lots of stuff installed in my system.
If you already have LLC set so low, I don't think there's much else you can do. I have tried to use voltage offsets with my motherboard in the past and saw power consumption increase when compared to not using offsets. I know it doesn't make sense, but that's what I observed and I immediately stopped using the offsets.