Turn off/ Wake up problems

I have found Windows 10 to be glitchy in the area of power. What I have done is to turn sleep completely off in power options. Make sure it is set to never. Also check advanced power options to make sure it is set to never there as well. Under advanced also make sure hybrid sleep and hibernate is off. When I want my computer to sleep I manually put it to sleep rather than letting it automatically go to sleep through its power settings. That seems to have fixed most of my sleep issues and I can wake it from the keyboard. I also went to device manager and set it so that only my keyboard could wake the computer. If you don't know how to do that in device manager (you can get to device manager by doing a search) click on Mice-right click on your mouse. Click properties. Under power management uncheck "allow this device to wake computer". Then go to properties for your keyboard and make sure the box there IS checked.
Hope this helps. You are not alone with Windows 10 weird power issues.

I am having this problem also, or something a lot like it. I set it up as suggested above, where only the sleep option is to manually put it to sleep. That does not help at all. It still starts to reboot, then shut down, then start to reboot, then shut down, ad infinitum. Hibernation is not involved at all. It looks like my only option is to run full power and shut it down completely if I am going to be away for a while.

pknight said:

I am having this problem also, or something a lot like it. I set it up as suggested above, where only the sleep option is to manually put it to sleep. That does not help at all. It still starts to reboot, then shut down, then start to reboot, then shut down, ad infinitum. Hibernation is not involved at all. It looks like my only option is to run full power and shut it down completely if I am going to be away for a while.

I suggest you go to your computer's manufacturer support page and check to see if there is an update for your bios.
If there is an update flash your bios to the newest version. If you already have the latest bios you might try re-flashing the bios with whatever version you have. Be sure to read the instructions that normally are posted with a bios update.

lgentry said:

I suggest you go to your computer's manufacturer support page and check to see if there is an update for your bios.
If there is an update flash your bios to the newest version. If you already have the latest bios you might try re-flashing the bios with whatever version you have. Be sure to read the instructions that normally are posted with a bios update.

Thanks, but I have already updated the BIOS and the motherboard chipset drivers to the latest versions. It made no difference.

pknight said:

Thanks, but I have already updated the BIOS and the motherboard chipset drivers to the latest versions. It made no difference.

Another thought I had(which might be crazy) just for grins take out all your ram except for the stick in slot 1 to see if you have the issue. If you still do, replace the stick in slot 1 with one of the other sticks and test again. You could eliminate your ram being the problem this way. I have seen flakey ram do weird stuff.
One other thing I failed to mention-have you poked around in your bios settings to see if there are any related to power? I have seen some bios that had a lot of control over power.
Looking at similar issues being reported around the web, I found where nothing short of a clean install would fix the reboot loop problem for some people. If you decide to go the clean install route test the sleep issue before you install any additional drivers.
Hope you get to the root of your problem.

I have not been able to fix this problem yet. As I mentioned, this started happening right around the time I installed the 1511 build on this PC on 12/9.

There have not been that many fixes put out since then. I am wondering if it might not be a good idea to back out all of the system fixes from 12/9 on and see if the problem goes away.

There are two cumulative 1511 fixes and two flash player fixes and a Silverlight fix.

Would it be worth the work to give that a try?

Z

You could try manually uninstalling the updates or you could try recovery options such as system restore or system reset. Although nothing is impossible I really tend to think that a bad windows update would have caused similar problems for a lot more people, unless in your case it's installation got corrupted somehow . You can try one or more of these options and hopefully one will work.
Have you, per chance, done a full scan with Malwarebytes to make sure you don't have any malware?
Also, make sure your power options are set as noted in this photo.

I have always been one to take the plunge and reinstall Windows when something really squirrelly was going on that has no apparent cause and when normal troubleshooting doesn't work. I've also always been of the mind that a clean install as opposed to an upgrade was always best. In the case of the Windows 10 upgrade I performed the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 in order to register my system with Microsoft's servers. I immediately reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch. Yes, it's a lot of work but at least I know what I've got when I am done.
Please keep us posted as to your progress or lack thereof.

Malwarebytes scan shows no problems.

Spybot shows no problems.

I changed Allow Hybrid sleep to Off.

I will see how it goes.

Z