Sleep and Shutdown issues after upgrading to Windows 10

[anandbibek]

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@ggrpitt wrote:

I figured out what the problem was with my Probook.

A while back I replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive. This worked fine with Win7. It turns out that the $5 caddy I used to install the second HDD has a grounded "diagnostic" pin in the SATA interface. That did not matter much to Win7, but Win10 apparently cannot tolerate it. A little fiddling with a knife took care of it and now the laptop sleeps like a baby when it needs to. 

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Could you please elaborate how you identified this cause and how you fixed it? I also have a SSD in optical drive. I'm not entirely hopeful, but it could be causing this problem also.

[anandbibek]

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@ggrpitt wrote:

I figured out what the problem was with my Probook.

A while back I replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive. This worked fine with Win7. It turns out that the $5 caddy I used to install the second HDD has a grounded "diagnostic" pin in the SATA interface. That did not matter much to Win7, but Win10 apparently cannot tolerate it. A little fiddling with a knife took care of it and now the laptop sleeps like a baby when it needs to. 

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Could you please elaborate how you identified this cause and how you fixed it? I also have a SSD in optical drive. I'm not entirely hopeful, but it could be causing this problem also.

[smyth]

this was my last option. Thank you so much this has worked great so far!!

[ggrpitt]

MAny of these caddies have a "diagnostic pin" used by some manufacturers. Because not every manufacturer uses this pin, the caddies ship with the pin grounded. HP does not like this. Some of the better caddies have a tiny white switch located near the eSATA interface where you plug the drive. You will need to remove the drive to find it. Just flip the switch to unground the pin and test your computer afterwards. If you don't have a switch, there are two choices: get a new caddie, or cut the connection to ground. Somebody published the schematics a while back, but I did not keep the link to the instructions to remove the pin. The caddies are so cheap that I would choose buying a new one. I paid 5 bucks for mine on the bay. Many vendors will specify whether or not they have a switch.

[cyberboy]

Sometimes when you have a problem it's best to return home for the solution. This was very helpful, Thanks

[DCQuack]

Hi I have the same issue but I have an AMD A8 processor.

Any ideas how to fix it if you don't have Intel?

Thanks

[ggrpitt]

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@DCQuack wrote:

Hi I have the same issue but I have an AMD A8 processor.

Any ideas how to fix it if you don't have Intel?

Thanks

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Sorry, I have no experience with AMD processors. 

[wahone]

Thank You It works Great now.

[DCQuack]

Thanks anyway.

I think I was able to correct the issue by updating the drivers for my monitor/screen.

I had to go into Device Manager and do it manually.

Previously I was letting Windows Update do that.

The monitor/screen from DM found a new driver and after updating that I haven't had the problem. It's lucky that there was a fix that way, because no one I've contacted could tell me how to fix the issue on an AMD processor.

Thanks All!

[Ninjabarbie26]

Wow this really helped me out thank you.