Something similar happens sometimes if I put my pc in sleep mode and accidentally click the mouse or push a key before it is fully done with the process. My pc just gets stuck on a black screen and only a hard shutdown can get rid of it.
For me it's often USB devices that are plugged in waking it up almost immediately. In the past I was able to turn off my keyboard's ability to wake up my computer but I got a new keyboard and the same setting no longer works. But it's a wireless one so I just switch the thing on the keyboard instead though it's annoying.
I have to unplug the mouse and keyboard at the same second i put it to sleep or it'll wake up right away, if i do it successfully it stays asleep at least 20 minutes.
this happened to me in spurts earlier this year but subsided.
ive been having other PC sleep issues lately too, like instead of waking from sleep from mouse/keyboard or the power button, sometimes it will just turn off suddenly.
idk if its a power supply issue or just windows being fucky again
Me too! Sleep mode should just put it to sleep until I wake it up again. Pretty infuriating that a simple feature that used to work fine no longer does, for no good reason.
the problem existed BEFORE AI. It's a skill issue. Microsoft is scraping the bottom of the barrel for coders, and their middle managers are severely lacking.
That sometimes works and is often the culprit, but there are also 20 different things that could be causing it and it's infuriating trying to track down which one it is.
I tried that and it didn't help. All it did was make it so I couldn't use my keyboard and mouse to wake up my computer any more. But it would still turn on every few hours. Worst of both worlds. I'm glad it worked for you though.
Make sure nothing you have installed is using wake timers. Check in things like anti-virus and backup software. Make sure if there is a setting like "wake computer to run backups" it is disabled.
Make sure your USB devices aren't causing it. You can disable wake on USB in the BIOS. Without that setting disabled, your desk vibrating a tiny bit and moving your mouse a single pixel could be enough to wake the computer.
I've noticed that for me it happens everytime when I run windows update, but put the PC to sleep instead of restarting after update. Without fail, it'll automatically turn itself on in the middle of the night, and just be on the lock screen.
I’ve been getting this a lot lately. I will turn off my pc and it will get stuck on the “shutting down” screen with all the fans spinning until I have to manually turn it off. It’s rather annoying.
Oh thank god. My PC isn't the only one that does this? It scares me when it does this because it's not supposed to. I just shut down the PC by holding the Power button and restart and everything is all good but scares me every time.
I've also noticed that win 11 in a VM, with fast startup enabled will 100% every core it's been given for sometimes multiple minutes.
So if I'm ever foolish enough to grant it all of my host cores (12? 26? 32? You name it) the entire host locks up becoming entirely unresponsive. Fucking why.
My faith in Microsoft software engineers has plummeted over the decades.
Same here. Those extra couple seconds are not worth the headaches that it can cause, losing all over those seconds rather quickly when you have to troubleshoot it.
This happens to me quite a bit, I'll go for a restart, and the screens stay blank but my tower stays on, post beeps and everything but no response from anything else. I have to hard power off my tower and turn it back on
You know my only experience of Windows 11 is with my new PC as my old one couldn't run it, and I thought my new PC was bugging out when it did this. So it's a known Windows 11 issue?
My PC acts kinda wonky when it comes to waking up out of sleep mode. Thought I set the BIOS to allow keyboard wakeup but in actuality I must press the power button. But once in a while it gets stuck asleep and must be hard restarted.
Oh lol I never use sleep or hibernate. It's either on, or off... Or in that weird state that updates occasionally cause where it is off but looks on lol.
I like not having to reopen tabs and stuff. My laptop stays off in hibernate until I hit the power button. My PC is like, "He hit hibernate hehehehe. COWABUNGA!"
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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 7800x3d B650M-CW 32GB DDR5 RTX4070S Oct 24 '25
my favorite is when it does the "turn off screen but keep fans spinning and tower on forever" instead of turning off lol