Windows 10: Laptop switching on and running the battery down from Hibernate

I'm still new to Windows 10 (home), from XP and recently bought a new HP laptop. I always leave the laptop with a full battery and hibernate overnight, with mains power turned off and the lid open. In the past week I noticed twice that the battery was about 80% in the morning so researched and made the changes to try and prevent wake states. Devices don't allow wake, task scheduler, deleting HP bloat, power saving options etc. Since then on Monday morning, the laptop battery was only 1% which I was furious about as I always avoid running a battery down as it causes damage. The battery is also 10.5 hours, and it was only left about that long or less, so it must have been on full power. There was nothing in the event viewer for the time it should have been off. I checked and amended the settings again and made a few more changes. (Including registry settingfor WindowsUpdate AU to 0. Last night I left it plugged in to the mains with a wattage meter. It did not switch on. Maximum watts used remained <1 watt. I have checked the battery and it is fine and works correctly in normal use.

So maybe I already fixed it but just checking if there is anything I might have missed. With an old netbook on XP, although it was never a problem, if I closed the lid or even temporarily turned off the power after hibernating, it would NEVER switch itself back on. It seems the HP with 10 does not do this, although I have not tried closing the lid??? If I have to shutdown rather than hibernate and/or close the lid, I'll have to but surely that shouldn't matter?

If it happens again, I'll know to use powercfg to see what waked it, although I expect it will be undetermined.

Of course, I have no idea why it did not shut down after doing its thing even until the battery was totally flat?

Any ideas? Obviously I'll leave it plugged into the mains until I can trust it. My fear is that it will be ok for a few days then do it again when I turn the mains power off and continue to kill the battery. (I gather 10 likes to reset settings during updates too) Surely it shouldn't be difficult to say switch off and remain off without having to remove the battery!!??

EDIT: One thing not tried yet is turning off "fast boot". I just found where that setting is, so turned it off. Don't know if relevent to this?

:)

 

"Hibernating", system just won't start.

If your laptop is stuck on the screen showing the message “Hibernating”, you may need to discharge the power from your laptop by removing your battery.



To do this, you may follow these steps:



a) Turn the laptop over and slide the switches holding your battery in place to the "Unlocked" position.

b) Pull the battery out of your laptop

c) Press and hold the "Power" button for 30 seconds.

d) Return the battery to its position and lock it in place by sliding the battery switches to the "Locked" position.

e) Plug your laptop into the power supply and press the "Power" button to power on your laptop.



You may also try powering the laptop off by pressing and holding its button down for 10 seconds. This should release the hibernation mode.

Issue is resolved. Than you all

 

Problem with hibernation - Windows 10

Hi

Whenever I put my laptop into hibernate, the screen goes black but it doesn't switch off properly. Effectively, it stays running and draining power. I have an HP pavillion laptop that goes automatically into hibernate when it goes past 10% battery, but it
goes into a half-hibernate, where the battery drains. I have to plug it in and charge it to use it again. However, the laptop resumes if I do this.

However, it can't just be running everything just without any screen, because I've found I can force a proper hibernate by looking at the wifi button. When it turns from blue to orange, I can hold down the power button and shut it off forcefully, which creates
a hibernation-like state where the laptop resumes when I power it up again.

I'm incredibly confused. I can give whatever technical or software details necessary. I can't find anywhere else online that details this problem.

Thanks in advance for any replies

 

The two boot options of "fast boot" and "fast startup" are very different items.

The second is enabled by default in Win10, and I also have a new HP laptop that also runs down the battery when turned off -- and this was due to Fast Startup being enabled.

There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win10; (1) through the Control Panel, and (2) through an elevated command prompt.

Control Panel - Open Control Panel --> Power Options.
Select "Choose what the power buttons do"
Select "Change settings that are currently unavailable"
At the bottom of the Window, under Shutdown settings, uncheck the box regarding fast startup

Elevated command prompt - run the following command:
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /V HiberbootEnabled /T REG_dWORD /D 0 /F

In both cases, reboot Windows.

NOW, FastStartup is disabled.

 

Already turned fast start off. Went into hibernate last night at 11:30pm. Windows turned my laptop on at 2:08am and left it on all night again. Obviously Microsoft don't care about the environment, destroying brand new batteries and turning computers on all night, any more than they do rushing out faulty updates making perfectly good equpment obsolute. Shame.

 

It could be HP that preconfigured it to wake, maybe for their own updates? Whatever, the How-To Geek goes into every possible cause for waking, how to figure out which is yours, and how to turn it off here...

How-To Geek | How to Prevent Your Computer From Waking Up Accidentally

 

Boulder, you should also check, if your laptop is one of those called in for battery replacement program.

HP Notebook Computer and Mobile Workstation Battery Safety Recall

Sorry, if this has nothing to do with your case, but you didn't provide any laptop detailes and and part of of HP safety measure was:

 

1) Open the HP website > software and drivers > enter the computer's product or serial number > select operating system > view drivers > post a URL or hyperlink into the thread
HP Software and Driver Downloads for HP Printers, Laptops, Desktops and More | HP® Customer Support

2) Run this log collector and post a zip into the thread for troubleshooting:
log collector v2-beta06.zip

Does the computer only have integrated GPU or discrete GPU (Intel Optimus technology)?
Which power plan was selected? Balanced, high power?
What are the settings for boot-start programs and services?

 

Also, if you monitor it again, when it wakes at 2AM or so, open a command prompt and enter powercfg /lastwake. That should tell you what woke the computer up. Maybe it will give you a clue to what is causing it.

Also check powercfg /waketimers.