Hard drive activity, long delay when going to sleep

Lord Method Man

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Hi, I noticed an issue with my PC earlier this morning.

I always put my desktop into S3 sleep when not in use, normally this happens almost instantly, but now it takes 10+ seconds after the monitor goes black before the system actually powers down.

I had been using Windows 7, but a week ago I did an upgrade to Windows 8. I'm not sure exactly when this behavior started, but I just noticed it earlier today.

I have Hibernate disabled (powercfg -h off) as well as System Restore; so I don't know what could be causing this. The hard drive LED stays lit during the entire delay.

Any ideas on what it could be doing, or any way to find out?

Thanks.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD FX-8350
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
    Memory
    16 GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 770 x2 SLI
    Hard Drives
    Primary: Crucial M500 240GB SSD

    Secondary: 2x WD Black 1TB RAID 0
    PSU
    Antec HCG 850 M
    Browser
    IE11
Are you certain its going to sleep and not hibernation or hybrid sleep?

Both modes write to the harddrive before powering down..

Check your drive for errors, or fragmentation....
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 & Windows 7 Dual Boot
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP G60
    CPU
    AMD Turion RM-70 Dual Core 2.0 GHZ
    Memory
    3 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 8200M G
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Mouse
    MS Intellipoint 5 button (love it!)
    Browser
    Chrome and Chromium
    Antivirus
    Avast Free & Malwarebytes
  1. Install Windows Assessment Toolkit and Windows Performance Toolkit from Windows 8 ADK (google)
  2. Start Windows Performance Recorder
  3. On the right, choose Performance Scenario: Standby/Resume
  4. When done, upload ETL files to Dropbox/SkyDrive/etc
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion dv7t (17.3'', i7-2630QM, HD 6770M 1Gb, 8Gb RAM, 2 SSD@120Gb + 1 HDD@750Gb)
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