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BEFORE MARKING IT AS DUPLICATE:
Here's what I've tried:

  • Updating video drivers: GeForce GT 740M up to date
  • Updating network drivers: Realtek PCIe up to date
  • NEW: Updating chipset drivers: They were already up to date
  • Updating BIOS: Updated to A10
  • Turning off hybrid-sleep
  • turning off hibernation completely
  • Disabling wake timers on all energy plans
  • Turning off waking on magic packet/pattern match
  • Unplugging all USB and Bluetooth devices
  • Setting the sleep idle timer for something else than "never"
  • Disabling waking up devices shown in powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
  • Some other things that I don't remember now. Please ask in the comments before marking as duplicate.

If I turn on my computer and open all my applications, I can put my computer to sleep with no problem, but after some hours of it being on, if I try to put it to sleep, it will turn off the screen, but it will not sleep, and the only way to use the computer again is to force a restart by holding down the power button.

This started to happen after I switched my old HD to an SSD and reinstaled windows 10.

EDIT 1: Tried shutting Chrome off and running powercfg -requestsoverride Driver "Legacy Kernel Caller" System without success

EDIT 2:

  • When I manually put my machine to sleep, after letting it on after 2+ hours, the screen will turn off, but the power light and the wifi light will stay on, and then I need to forcefully turn the computer off by holding the power button.
  • The powercfg -requests command was showing the following result:

    [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
    WebRTC has active PeerConnections

...But after killing chrome, it started to show the following:

[DRIVER] Chamador Kernel Herdado
(this is equivalent to [DRIVER] Legacy Kernel Caller)

I've tried running without success both:
powercfg -requestsoverride Driver "Legacy Kernel Caller" System
powercfg -requestsoverride Driver "Chamador Kernel Herdado" System

Two important things:
- The Kernel entry vanished after I closed Spotify
- I turned my computer on just now, so I can put it to sleep without problems even with the Kernel entry on my -requests, the issue seems to appear after 2 hours

EDIT 3: I have reasons to believe the Kernel thing is not the issue, this forum post is similar to my problem, my computer won't shut off also, after two hours.
https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/66640-wont-enter-sleep-legacy-kernel-caller.html

EDIT 4: Maybe this can be related, maybe not...
When sleeping normally (with the computer on for less than 2 hours), the disk light blinks a lot, and then it goes to sleep.
But when the sleep fails, the disk light blinks 3 or 4 times before turning off, and then the wifi light and power light stays on. That's when the computer freezes.
My HD got replaced by a SSD recently, and that's when the problems started. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 14R.

EDIT 5: results from running powercfg -energy:
http://codepen.io/carvalho23lucas/full/OpXYLq/
I've added a plugin to translate the page, you can find it in the first line

EDIT 6: results from running a clean powercfg -energy:
http://codepen.io/carvalho23lucas/full/mWEZpr/
I turned off bluetooth, closed all open programs, killed the audio process and ran the command.
Immediately after that, I tried to put the computer to sleep. Failed again.

Lucas
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I have also had software issues (sleep, dual-boot install failure...) on a dell computer (server) with a newly installed Corsair SSD.

These problems were not present with the original HD. And to this day the same problems persists...

Are you sure your SSD is 100% compatible with the Dell hardware (SATA controller on the motherboard ...). Have you tried contacting Dell about this issue ? Have you tried another SSD/HD ?

As far as I am concerned this is a hardware issue.

Good luck

mhham
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Well, after a long time dealing with that problem, I finnaly had some advances. I am not sure what exactly happened, but here are two things I did:

  1. I reset power settings to defaults and changed what I needed from scratch (like, sleep delay etc). Also, I set AHCI Link Power Managment to HIPM+DIPM. I am inclined to believe that this is not important, but I am mentioning this because I did it.
  2. On threads about problems with sleep mode, I have many times seen the advice to rollback or remove Intel Managment Interface Engine driver. I didn't have the option to rollback and removal didn't do anything for me: it was just back after a reboot. So I updated the driver instead. It was not distributed through Microsoft servers for me, so I went for a first link on google and installed it manually. It is now of version 11.0.5.1189 for me.

Later, after six hours of runtime, I closed the lid and my laptop went to sleep for the first time since win10 install (except sleep right after restart). I suppose second thing from the list above is what helped. (Of course, I've had hibernation, fast boot etc. disabled a long time ago.)

Serge Seredenko
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I just had a similar issue, where putting the PC to sleep only turns off the displays.

In my case, there is some software prevent my PC from going to sleep. To solve this, open cmd and type in:

powercfg -requests

Under the System, there is one software process:

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You can either close the software or override its power setting:

powercfg -requestsoverride PROCESS “myprocess.exe” SYSTEM

The PROCESS in the command corresponds to the content inside the [] from the command line and SYSTEM corresponds to the category:

enter image description here

Anthony
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