Windows 10 Sleep mode causes unsafe shutdown
Recently, when I leave my computer (desktop, not laptop) alone for half an hour or so, I will come back to find that rather than enter sleep or hibernate, the computer has shut down completely. While Windows 10 normally reuses boot information to make the Windows logo breeze past during startup, I'm usually staring at it for 2 minutes or more, even though the system OS is on a Solid State Drive.
What's more, when I start up the computer, a few programs offer clues that it was an unsafe shutdown. Firefox says it couldn't open the tabs I had up, and Steam asks me for my password (normally remembered).
I've looked in the Windows event logs, but nothing of interest appears at the time of the shutdown; there is one recurring event that stands out; a warning that says "The IO operation at logical block address 0x13f9b8 for Disk 0 (PDO name: \Device\00000031) was retried." It happens every few minutes, not just during a power event, so I'm not sure it's related.
EDIT: Assuming I ran smartctl (smartmontools) correctly, here is its output for C:.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 6863
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 2181
177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0013 087 087 000 Pre-fail Always - 469
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 063 047 000 Old_age Always - 37
195 ECC_Error_Rate 0x001a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 529334
235 POR_Recovery_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 134
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 56049724571
Solution 1:
Stop Windows 10 shutdown during sleep mode
After upgrading to Windows 10 I was dismayed to find my computer shutdown after I had left it in sleep mode. I finally stumbled across a solution to the problem.
Click the icon in the lower left corner. Is this still called Start?
Click Settings.
Click System (Display, notifications, apps, power).
Click Power & sleep.
Scroll down to view Related Settings.
Click Additional power settings.
Click Change plan settings.
Click Change advanced power settings.
Click Hard disk plus sign to expand.
Click Turn off hard disk after plus sign to expand.
Click the number to engage adjustment.
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Click, or hold, the increase value arrow until you reach the number of minutes you desire.
I ran mine up to 2180 and have not had an unexpected shutdown since.
Sorry I could not include my screenshots on this site.