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Laptop not resuming from sleep after HDD-to-SSD upgrade
I have a new problem with my laptop which I had never had in the 3 years previously, whether it ran Windows 8, 8.1 and then 10.
Usually, when I go to bed at night I close my laptop screen and it goes into sleep. I then wake it up the next day without any issues.
But last week I upgraded my laptop's hard disk drive to an SSD and now if I close my laptop lid or put it into sleep mode, and then try and wake it the next day, it comes on, but nothing comes on the screen. I know it is on, as I can hear the fan whirring and also pressing the power button puts it back to sleep. But the display is completely blank. I then have no option but to hold the power button for 4 secs to power down the machine. Which is hardly ideal and means I lose anything I was doing when I closed the lid.
Oddly enough, if I put the laptop in sleep mode by closing the lid and then wake it a few minutes later, it does come on perfectly normally like before. The problem seems to be if the laptop has been in sleep for hours (i.e - overnight when I go to bed) and then when I press a key to wake it, it doesn't come back on.
Any ideas? Thanks