Dell Inspiron Desktop Sleep shutdown

[johnrobert]

Windows 10 not been updated to 20H2 yet
The client told me it keeps shutting down I was going to install a new PS, however, what it was doing is shutting down from sleep and will not wake up only by doing a restart. I updated all the drivers, I think Win 10 is corrupted I don't think it is hardware as it shuts down depending on how many minutes you set to sleep
I could go back put in an SSD clean install see if it still does it. I updated latest video drivers.

Any ideas

 

[SlickMinnow]

I had to fight with OEM power plans doing this kind of silliness. I would check to see if any such things are installed (HP Balanced Power Plan, etc) and remove them. Then select a new power plan (High performance) and see if that fixes it. Sleep/standby can get to be quite the rabbit hole, but this is where I would start. I'd be interested in what you find.

 

[fincoder]

Windows 10 not been updated to 20H2 yet

Latest is 21H1 so it's at least a couple of releases behind. Maybe do that update first and then check for driver updates (in optional updates).

 

[NviGate Systems]

Not sure how old this Dell is, but older machines that did not ship with 8 or 10 have more issues with sleep. There have been radical changes in firmware since Windows 7 era machines, so likely disabling sleep as suggested will fix this issue if it's an older machine.

 

[Diggs]

Windows has always had a stability issue with sleep mode. Sometimes it's immediate and other times it's after it's been slept 4 or 5 times. I have no faith in the stability of Windows Sleep mode. I have Linux machines that sleep almost every day for a year(s) and never need to be re-started.

 

[cypress]

I would disable hibernation mode and fast startup is not already done so and check the Power plans. Since it is a desktop I would set it to High Performance.

 

[HCHTech]

I had to fight with OEM power plans doing this kind of silliness. I would check to see if any such things are installed (HP Balanced Power Plan, etc) and remove them. Then select a new power plan (High performance) and see if that fixes it. Sleep/standby can get to be quite the rabbit hole, but this is where I would start. I'd be interested in what you find.

+1 for this. There's are some powershell commands to do this quickly.

Edit: This one to restore defaults:

powercfg -restoredefaultschemes

and these to re-make them if the first one doesn't work:

(Power saver)

powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a

(Balanced)

powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

(High Performance)

powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

(Ultimate Performance - Windows 10 build 17101 and later)

powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

Note that last one is only included by default in the Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, but you can enable it on any device (except laptops) with this command. It's only useful for machines that are constantly going back to an idle state apparently, so YMMV.

 

[SlickMinnow]

+1 for this. There's are some powershell commands to do this quickly.

Edit: This one to restore defaults:

powercfg -restoredefaultschemes

and these to re-make them if the first one doesn't work:

(Power saver)

powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a

(Balanced)

powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

(High Performance)

powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

(Ultimate Performance - Windows 10 build 17101 and later)

powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

Note that last one is only included by default in the Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, but you can enable it on any device (except laptops) with this command. It's only useful for machines that are constantly going back to an idle state apparently, so YMMV.

Powershell commands appreciated!

 

[johnrobert]

He had a spinner so I did a clean install with SSD and the problem has gone
he had one of that tiny AMD CPU so speeded up a lot
Dell was 4 years old and shipped with Win 10

Thanks for the help