System refuses to wake up from sleep!?

[RejZoR]

Ok, I thought it was just my old system acting up and I blamed old PSU in my new build, but now my system is brand new from power cable to the mouse. And it does this weird thing I don't even know on what to blame, hardware or Windows 10.

System goes to sleep and then further to hibernation. I came home, tried to wake it up and it refused. It's normal for hibernation, so I used the power button. And this is where weird shit starts happening...

System powers on, some fans start running (the rear exhaust one doesn't though, but I can see it trying to start by twitching back and forth), I can hear HDD spin up, system runs like this for 10 seconds and then shuts down. And no matter how often I try this, it keeps cycling. I had to shut it down, unplug it from wall, wait till all capacitors discharged and the started it. Then it fired up with rear exhaust fan actually spinning and system booted to desktop normally and even restored the last session properly.

I had EXACT same issue with my old X58 platform so I'm kinda excluding hardware here unless ASUS boards totally don't like hybrid sleep and hibernation.

Surely it can't be hardware when I have a system with brand new components and PSU that has the highest possible ATX specs at the moment. Surely it would support all the power saving shit including all the S states for hibernation and shit. I'm suspecting Windows 10, but I want to exclude hardware. Any idea what to check up?

 

[silentbogo]

Most likely cause is hibernation. I always disable it since it was introduced, because it never reliably worked.
On Win 7 and higher a regular sleep mode provides better performance and reliability.

You can either use a command line to disable hibernation

powercfg -h off

Or go to Control Panel -> Power Options. Select your current power plan and click on Advanced Settings.
Look for "Sleep" section in the list, open "Hibernate" and switch it to OFF.
You can try switching Allow Hybrid Sleep on and off and see if it helps.

If none of it worked - check whether you have installed proper chipset drivers. If you simply went with standard MS ACPI driver, it might be the reason your PC goes to coma.

 

[Arjai]

^+1

 

[RejZoR]

It's the same when I use just Hybrid Sleep. Basically anything that writes to disk and then requires that, just fails when it is at boot. And that was with and without Intel Smart Response setup with SSD.

 

[silentbogo]

Try disabling Hybrid Sleep.

I also see that you have an OCed Core i7 5820K. Did you disable any C-state or power management options in BIOS by the chance? Try loading the default settings and see if it helps.

 

[Bill_Bright]

Run sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt. Any errors sfc cannot correct?