Windows 10 Sleep Problems

[CallMeMysterious]

Lately I noticed that my PC has trouble waking from sleep mode. I know this happens a lot with Windows 10, but I want to see if there is a solution. When I go to put it to sleep, it goes down fine and wakes up fine the first time. Then the second time, it kind of bootloops. When I wake it up via wake on lan or by pressing the power button, it tries to boot but fails. The HDD Activity LED starts pulsing and one of my two hard drives (probably my used WD Black 2TB drive from 2014) starts clicking in time with it. Then if I move my mouse or click or anything, its LEDs blink too, but not in time although at a regular rate. Then, if I hold the power button to do a hard reset, (reset button does nothing in this state) it boots up just fine (although not from the state it was at before sleeping). This has never happened before, and I would really like to use Sleep mode to save power while I'm not using the PC. I usually stream games using nvidia's gameshare (and a neat android app called Moonlight Gamestream, link here) in freetime in my classes so sleeping can save on power. It has a Wake on LAN option which works within like 30sec for the first wake, but it goes back into the loop the second time. 

My current specs are:
Intel Core i5 4590

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI

16gb Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600mhz (downclocked to 1333mhz for stability reasons [don't ask])

EVGA GTX 1060 ACX 3.0 Cooler (no SC or SSC or FTW etc.)

SanDisk SSDNow 128gb SSD (boot drive)

Western Digital 1tb Blue 7200rpm HDD

Western Digital 2tb Black 7200rpm HDD (used, dated 2014)

EVGA 600B PSU

and if it matters, corsair strafe keyboard (non-rgb) and a corsair sabre rgb mosue

 

NOTE: I also tested hibernation as well as sleep. It went into the loop 1st time when waking to go into hibernate mode.

[Eclypseon]

I'm quite certain a far more knowledgeable person will offer better advice, but if I was facing you're predicament..

 

I would try removing (the sata cable from) the hard drives other than the boot drive. Perhaps remove them all, and run the boot-sleep-wake attempt.

If the problem goes away, put them in one by one to see if the offending drive identifies itself.

 

I assume you've already done drive health tests. But if not, try those too.

[Droidbot]

Check sleepstates in bios

[CallMeMysterious]

On 9/7/2017 at 9:30 PM, Eclypseon said:

I'm quite certain a far more knowledgeable person will offer better advice, but if I was facing you're predicament..

 

I would try removing (the sata cable from) the hard drives other than the boot drive. Perhaps remove them all, and run the boot-sleep-wake attempt.

If the problem goes away, put them in one by one to see if the offending drive identifies itself.

 

I assume you've already done drive health tests. But if not, try those too.

I'm just wondering, could having the HDDs being hot swappable cause the issue?

[Eclypseon]

3 hours ago, CallMeMysterious said:

I'm just wondering, could having the HDDs being hot swappable cause the issue?

That's certainly a possibility. I'm not as familiar with the effects of hotswappable drives. As commented above, check the bios for clues. Make sure your boot drive isn't set to hot swappable inadvertently.