Seeing UEFI splash screen, upon wake from sleep, Win10 64-bit, Z170

VirtualLarry

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Trying to figure this out. I don't think that it used to do this. At least, I never noticed it.

When Win10 1607 newest patches, goes to sleep on my system, when I wake it, I have to manually turn the monitor on, and then I press a key on my USB wired mech. keyboard, and then it wakes up.

Recently, though, I'm catching it showing the UEFI splash screen with the ASRock logo, and the spinning circle below.

It seems almost like it's resuming from hibernate instead (crashed during sleep? or during wake?), but I don't have anything set in the UEFI to actually power-on via keyboard, that I know of.

This is really puzzling me.

A few weeks ago, I re-formatted with Win10 1607 64-bit, and put in an Intel 600p M.2 NVMe SSD. Previously, I had a Samsung SM951 AHCI PCI-E M.2 SSD.

I haven't updated the BIOS on my ASRock Z170 Pro4S board.

Could the appearance of the splash screen, have something to do with the NVMe? Can't Win10 wake from sleep, without re-initializing or having to run the UEFI?

The only thing that Reliability Monitor shows for the past few days, is informational, listing Windows Defender updates. No crashes listed.

Could my "S3 resume (STR)" be shut off somehow? Could that have been set as a registry entry by some program?

Edit: I just manually went to the Start Menu, clicked on the Power icon, and clicked Sleep. Monitor went black, waited a few seconds, clicked the mouse, and it woke back up, NO UEFI SCREEN.

Seems like my machine is crashing during extended sleep periods? Or is the OS causing it to hibernate, after so many hours in sleep mode? (I have laptops that do that.)

If it's hibernating, then how come I can wake it with a press of the SHIFT key on my USB wired keyboard? If I don't have power-on-by-keyboard set in my UEFI? (I should double-check that.)
 
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sandorski

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Yup, started happening to me about a month ago. First time I saw it I thought my PC must have crashed, but it loaded up Windows just as I left it with no asking for password. So I have just accepted it as the new Normal.
 

VirtualLarry

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Thanks for the feedback. I forgot to mention, I HAVE had a BSOD, something about "Critical Structure Protection Error", a few weeks ago. And my rig is overclocked, from 100 BCLK to 135 BCLK. The RAM is slightly overclocked, rated at 2400, I'm running it at around 2520, I think. But the BIOS automatically loosened the timings.

Anyways, the rig has been running just fine for a year prior, at the same settings. So either something has degraded, or it's some new Windows Update that changed the behavior.
 

TGR

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"Recently, though, I'm catching it showing the UEFI splash screen with the ASRock logo, and the spinning circle below."

Yes, me too after a Win10 update. ASRock mobo. No problems, blue screen, etc., though. Curious.

TR