USB stopped working after computer woke from sleep

After my computer woke up from sleeping, my three USB ports stopped working. Windows 7 wouldn’t recognize them anymore. On the rare occasion that they show up in Device Manager, it shows a yellow exclamation symbol next to that USB port. I’ve followed every troubleshooting step here, but to no avail. I’ve looked at other … Read more

Windows 7 can’t go to sleep properly or waking up from the improper sleep state after hibernate being turned off

I have Win7 on Asus p8Z77 MB, recently I’ve noticed that by having the hibernate turned on, it keeps eating away the storage capacity in my C drive by like 10G+ (OS drive), so I decided to turn the hibernate off using ” powercfg.exe /hibernate off ” in CMD. Then something interesting happens: After hibernation … Read more

Laptop keeps restarting after sleep with SanDisk Ultra II 960GB

I’m having issues with my new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD in Asus Q550LF laptop running Windows 10: laptop keeps resetting after being woken up from sleep. Looking in Windows event log, sleep event is actually missing. This event was logged while I used HDD which came originally with the laptop. I installed SanDisk SSD … Read more

Windows 10: troubleshooting Wake Source

My laptop randomly wakes up in the middle of the night, and stays on. I asked a question about this, Hibernating laptop randomly wakes up and stays on when lid is closed and that gave me a way in to troubleshoot the issue. But I’m baffled by what I’ve found. This is what my event … Read more