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I am encountering a problem with my Windows 11 PC where it fails to wake up from sleep mode. The only solution I've found to turn it back on is by manually switching off the power supply and then switching it back on. Additionally, I've noticed that as soon as I initiate sleep mode, my computer's fans start spinning at a high speed. This issue began occurring randomly, and I have not made any recent updates or changes to my system.
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Finally!
After a year of searching for solutions this seems to have finally fixed it 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much for the Nvidia driver hint!
I have tested it for a bit after updating the driver and it really seems to have fixed the stalled wake after sleep behaviour.
Ah ha! It seems it’s an Nvidia driver issue and they say it’s been corrected in the latest driver 576.02
I am also having the exact same issue on a B550 Aorus Elite
I thought it was resolved when disabling XMP which crashed my OS entirely (I am running two 3600 mhz ram chips when my computer can only go to 3200 - if you get rare yearly corruptions of your OS and recovery states, it seems to be from XMP with the 3000 series mother boards)
But this issue still occurs. I only have a screensaver on, high performance mode activated, etc
If I leave my computer on, sometimes it just has no display output and is entirely unresponsive until I hard reset the PC. Thankfully I have a shutdown button on my unit and a hard switch on my power supply, but I can't find the issue and am concerned that hard resetting my device once a week is going to damage components eventually.
I've tried hunting through the Event Viewer log, done a Display driver uninstall and reinstall, Memtest 86+ with full 8 passthroughs, changed my NVME and reinstalled Windows 10 to update to Windows 11 - used Crystal Driver to review my lifetime statistics for ALL my drives.
My computers hardware is within three years AND all my tests are coming back totally fine - even the local computer shop can't figure out why this issue occurs - I have no unrecognized software as it's my gaming PC and I don't want to run the risk of getting malware, viruses, keyloggers, etc.
This must be something concerning with Windows 11's OS, since I can't see it being my PSU or GPU or my motherboard (which this problem occured on both the ORIGINAL bios install AND the newest Bios install) it's not my RAM or Hard Drives, and it's not my NVME's or SSD's.
If it were any of that, the computer wouldn't boot at all - does anyone have an idea of why a Windows 11 desktop could randomly freeze at times when leaving it on, say, when I go for work?
Same problem here. Acer Nitro 5 laptop, all firmware and drivers up to date. Never had this problem even once with Windows 10, then updated to Windows 11 it started immediately. I have even done a clean install of Windows 11, same problem. Whether it goes to sleep after a timeout, if I select it from the Start menu, or use a FN key on my keyboard, it will lock up several times a day. The keyboard LEDs stay on and the fans spin up faster than normal when Sleep is initiated and will stay that way until I force shutdown by holding the power button. I think once it corrupted my OS because that's when I had to reinstall Windows 11, and I've also lost unsaved work, so this is a problem that MS should be paying attention to. Extremely frustrating.
But the question is: How do we get Microsoft technicians to pay attention to this widespread problem and resolve it? My desktop goes to sleep at the most inopportune times.
Only hope that they actually read the forums? But it doesn't seems that M$ care that much. I just turned used a custom power profile, that turns off nothing except the screen, timeout on screen set to 10 minutes.
