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Dell Inspiron 3135 does not sleep/shutdown/hibernate
I'm running Windows 10 build 9926 on an Inspiron 3135 from 2013. I made a clean installation from the Microsoft ISO on a 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD. Prior to that it was running the original HDD with its 8.0 distribution upgraded to 8.1 via the Windows Store.
I have the latest BIOS available for this computer.
Other than the webcam which I did not test, everything works. Except proper shutdown stuff.
When I select shutdown from the interface, the system sits there for a quite a while with the hard drive LED blinking briefly every 2-6 seconds. I did not try with a stopwatch, but that remains the behavior for well over 3 minutes. This time I happened to notice that after quite some time I saw a longer amount of time with the LED on, then another brief blink, then it went dark.
After turning on, I looked at the System Event log. Here are some interesting entries:
4:17:19 The process ... has initiated the power off ...
4:17:25 The system is entering sleep.
4:24:18 The boot type was 0x0.
4:24:18 The last shutdown's success status was false. The last boot's success status was false.
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4:24:18 Windows failed fast startup with error status 0cC0000001.
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4:24:19 The system watchdog timer was triggered.
4:24:21 The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error is caused because the system stopped responding and the hardware watchdog triggered a system reset.
4:24:21 The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
I checked the Kingston site for firmware. I'm not sure whether there is better than what the SSD contains. The SSD is new from NewEgg. The Kingston firmware app says there is no newer firmware.
(There is a notice on the app screen to run the app in AHCI mode, but I confirmed that the BIOS is set to AHCI.)
I did not try this SSD on Windows 8; I guess I could and see whether it behaves the same.
I now tried to reboot instead of shutdown and the system again went into this period of blinking. I held the power button because I wanted to check the BIOS.
Any ideas?
J