Hi, I'm running Windows 10 Home on an ASUS Q551LN 2-in-1 laptop which originally came with Windows 8.1. When I shut down/restart/sleep the machine, it does not shut down - the Hark Disk activity light is still blinking and the normal power button press does not work. If I do nothing, it remains in this state for hours. I need to press the power button for 5 seconds to reset it. Only then I can start the laptop. This happens around half the times. The other half it works normally. I never had this problem with the OEM 8.1 on this machine. Based on other threads - I have the latest Windows 10 updates, and disabling fast boot did not solve the problem. Thanks.
To me this sounds like a problem with hybrid shutdown. Try pressing the shift key while shutting down. If that works, open an admin command prompt and enter "powercfg -h off".
Try disabling Fast Start in power options. This very desirable feature does not always play nice with older hardware. You've mentioned fast boot - I don't know if you meant fast start. Did you upgrade from 8.1 or clean install? If you upgraded, you might need to reinstall the laptop-specific ASUS utilities - these might have been disabled by Windows setup. If you made a clean install, you would have installed that stuff manually, perhaps in compatibility mode for the Windows version those utilities were designed for.
I am facing the same issue. Tried updating graphics drivers, bios update but nothing works. I am using Dell Inspiron 3542.
After quite some Upgrades of older Windows OS'es to Windows 10 (different Versions), which many ends up in different problems, include the here posted Power problems, I ended up in generally doing an clean install after an upgrade, for to preserve the Licenses! And all ended up with an 100% working OS Windows 10! That said, I simply would recommend for to do an Clean Install after an Upgrade! Just don't forget to save all data up front!
That's what you get when you upgrade an OS! Never use an upgraded OS! It's not as simple as updating a program! Clean install FTW
I suffer the same problem and in my case, after a lot of trials, I found that culprit was the ENE Card SD Card Reader control er driver. If you have one of those in your laptop try again after disabling it.
Try these.... 1. Disable Fastboot. 2. Install Intel Management Engine Interface v9.5 from: downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23746/Intel-ME-9-Management-Engine-Driver-for-Intel-NUC Sleep and Shutdown problems ....Solved.
Download version 9 or 10 of the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver [Version 9.5.24.1790 1.5M] (downloadcenter.intel.com/search?keyword=intel+management+engine[/url]). [Version 9.5.24.1790 1.5M (downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23091/Intel-ME-9-Management-Engine-Driver-for-Intel-NUC) Download the Windows 10 "Show or Hide Updates" Troubleshooter Package (download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/wushowhide.diagcab). Change the Windows Update Services setting from Automatic (Delayed Start) to Manual. In the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools and open Services. Scroll down to Windows Update and double-click it to bring up its properties. Click Stop to stop the service from running. Change the Startup Type to Manual and click OK. Install version 9 or 10 of the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver. If you receive a dialog warning about replacing a newer version of the software, accept it. NOTE: Uninstall version 11 before installing version 9 or 10. Run the Windows 10 "Show or Hide Updates" Troubleshooter Package and hide updates to the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver. (Doing so will block your system from automatically reinstalling or showing updates for version 11 of the driver.) Change the Windows Update Services setting from Manual back to Automatic (Delayed Start). Restart your computer. Rejoice! You can finally sleep and shut down again. but do i need to run services again because i stopped it and see no point changing manual to automatic without running it.
This fixed my shutdown problems in my older laptop. And I tried it on my new desktop with a SSD. It shuts down faster by about 3-4 seconds. It didn't make any difference in the boot up time, its fast with or without Fast Start. Enabling Fast Start actually makes my system slower.