Disable Blinking Blue Light When in Sleep Mode

[Special_Monkey]

The blue light on the front of this workstation while in sleep mode is very bright and very blinky. I'm worried it's keeping my dog from enjoying a good night's sleep so have resorted to turning the machine off.

I enabled / disabled "Unique Sleep State Blink Rates" in the bios but that doesn't fix.

Is there some way to turn this light off during sleep mode?

I may put tape over it but would prefer a more elegant solution : )

Regards,

SM

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

Use hibernation mode.  Review this Geek-How-To article.

If you need additional information then review this MS posted information on system power states.

I use hibernation mode on my PC and it does turn off the blue flashing light.

[Special_Monkey · Accepted solution]

I spoke to an HP support rep via chat who said it was not possible to disable the blinking light while in sleep mode.

[Special_Monkey]

Hi Big_Dave, 

I tried hibernate earlier, and I don't think it worked, but will try it again since you say it worked for you.

Thanks, 

SM

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

That is the case for the typical sleep mode but try hibernation mode.

[Special_Monkey]

I tried hibernating.

In order for it to work and show up in the shutdown menu I had to disable "allow hybrid sleep."

However, hibernate is too much like powering down, e.g. once hibernating, I need to press the power on button to resume Windows.

Maybe hybrid sleep allows for hibernating but also resuming in the same manner from a sleeping computer, e.g. pressing any key?

I think I'll just power it down since hibernating doesn't seem to be much faster, but does have the benefit of resuming unsaved work.

Thanks for the suggestion,

SM

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

I just have to press the space bar for my PC to exit from hibernation. And, no blue blinking light.

[Special_Monkey]

Do you have hybrid sleep enabled?

Thanks,

SM

[Big_Dave]

@Special_Monkey

I don't use hybrid sleep.

[Special_Monkey]

Thanks for confirming, I double checked and still need to press power to recover from hibernation.

When hybrid sleep is enabled, hibernate is no longer an option in the shutdown menu.

Regards,

SM