"Sleep" is shutting down pc.  

i've just run powercfg again and i have different resualts:

and it still refuses to sleep.

I wonder if it's related to the external drive. Disconnect everything else external other than keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

steve108 said:

I wonder if it's related to the external drive. Disconnect everything else external other than keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

Thanks for your answer
I cannot just disconnect the external drive beacuse the OS is installed on it.

BTW: for more details about my special system setup look here:
My unusual setup fails: 2 different NVMe system drives

Yes, it was implied that the boot drive would remain connected

I'm not familiar with external boot drive setup. Are you saying you couldn't get the PC to boot from any internal drive?

steve108 said:

I'm not familiar with external boot drive setup. Are you saying you couldn't get the PC to boot from any internal drive?

it IS possible to boot from internal drive. when i do so, i'm able to put pc into sleep. (but the installation on windows on the internal drive has different version (2004) while the version on the external drive is 20H2

shadtal said:

it IS possible to boot from internal drive. when i do so, i'm able to put pc into sleep. (but the installation on windows on the internal drive has different version (2004) while the version on the external drive is 20H2

Okay, so apparently it's something to do with 20H2 or the external drive the - I suspect it's about booting from the external drive.

i've jsut upgrated the internal drive to 20H2 and sleep is still possible there.