Stata during computer lock

[Ariel Karlinsky]

On my work station, I usually run some models that take a while to run - at night. I then lock the computer (start+L, windows 7 PC). It seems that after several hours the computer just... stops running the estimations and Stata enters some sort of "sleep" or "light use" mode. when I unlock the computer, the estimation continues.

I use rmsg to track execution time & current time but unforuantely since the commands are inside a foreach loop, rmsg does not report execution time for each estimation command.
I checked sleep\hibernate settings on the machine and everything is set to NEVER. also, since Stata is RUNNING, it shouldn't even invoke this. How can I solve this issue? I come back to the station after a couple of days when I hoped it would run all the time consuming commands and come back to see it ran only a couple of e'm...

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Carole J. Wilson]

Check the advanced power options, especially the hard disk

(these steps are from Win 8 laptop, so I don't know if this will work on a desktop running Win 7)
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options
Click Change Plan Settings
Click Change Advanced Power Setting

[Ariel Karlinsky]

Everything's set to NEVER, and like I already said: shouldn't these settings not be invoked anyway since Stata is running (and thus the computer is not 'idle" for any amount of time)?

[Carole J. Wilson]

You'll have to ask your IT person, I guess. I don't know if this is a Stata thing or a PC thing. When I have a long run, I've never tried locking, I only turn off the display.

[ben earnhart]

Sometimes there are additional power settings in the BIOS that are unaffected by settings in Windows. So on next boot, go in there and check.

[Thomas Mitterling]

I just encountered the same problem (but only on a new Windows 10 computer, on Windows 7 everything works fine). Any updates/solutions of the previous posters?