Asus Maximus V Formula Problem

[M4to1987]

Hello,
I have bought this PC on september 2012 and I didn't have a single problem up until only recently, it started in the end of may 2014
Here is the setup specifications:
CPU: Intel Intel Core i5-3570K (o/c: 4.6 Ghz)/
GPU: Gigabyte GTX670OC-2GD SLI(o/c: +110Mhz/+500Mhz)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus V Formula
Memory: Kingston 16GB DDR3-2133
Audio: Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Champion
PSU: Seasonic 860XP 80Plus Platinum 860W
Tower: Tt Armor VO200M1W2N Revo
HDD sys: Crucial M4 256 GB
HDD: opt. 2x300 GB WD VelociRaptor 32mb cache
HDD: opt2. 1 TB WD + 1.5 TB WD + 3 TB WD
Sennheiser HD 598
Logitech G400s
Gigabyte Aivia Osmium
ASUS VG278HR 144 Hz Nvidia 3D vision 2

Everything is running just fine when I manage to turn my computer on, but the problem starts whenever I shut the PC down, and go to sleep, the next morning it just won't start up. It won't boot unless I plug the cable out of the PSU for a few minutes and after plugging the cable back in and reseting the bios setting through the CMOS button it eventually starts, but it didn't used to act like this, I don't know what could be the problem, it doesn't matter wheter I overclock the cpu or not, I tested it, it won't start after the night even if I leave the bios settings to default and I have to do this tedious procedure again.
I have the latest 1903 version of bios
Any help would be highly appreciated, thank you

[HiVizMan]

Hello there.

Could you tell me did you change or add any hardware in the last three weeks?

Check your Microsoft updates log to see what updates where installed just before you started to have this strange issue. If you are running Win8 or Win 8.1 it might have to do with the way that the OS powers down, it does not really power down more a hibernate. Ram plays a big part here.

My gut feeling is that maybe something happened end of May, a storm or power surge maybe (guessing here) and your board might just need a long clear CMOS to fix. But lets see what you reply to my questions first.

[M4to1987]

HiVizMan wrote:
Hello there.

Could you tell me did you change or add any hardware in the last three weeks?

Check your Microsoft updates log to see what updates where installed just before you started to have this strange issue. If you are running Win8 or Win 8.1 it might have to do with the way that the OS powers down, it does not really power down more a hibernate. Ram plays a big part here.

My gut feeling is that maybe something happened end of May, a storm or power surge maybe (guessing here) and your board might just need a long clear CMOS to fix. But lets see what you reply to my questions first.

Hello HiVizMan,

Thanks for the quick reply. I haven't changed or added any new hardware in recent weeks apart from a new monitor which I bought on Christmas 2013.

I should've written Iam using Windows 8.1 x64 and I have all the automatic updates turned off completely.

Iam also using an APC Home/ Office SurgeArrest to prevent any damage to my pc or any other peripherals

Recently, due to problems with free space on the system drive I had to turn the hibernate function off via the cmd.exe with the command prompt: powercfg -h off , because the hibernate.sys file was taking about 40 GB of free space.I never used that function anyway so I turned it off
Iam shutting the computer down with a simple shut down prompt from the start menu.

[M4to1987]

Just now, I shut down my computer when I was taking my car out of the garage and came back up and everything started up smoothly, the problem is when I shut down the computer for more than few hours, while Iam going to sleep or Iam at work, when I wake up or come back from work, I usually need to do this tedious procedure again and again.

[HiVizMan]

As you may well know Win8 does not actually shut down like XP or Win7 did. It is more like a hybrid hibernate thing. Two things are nagging at me, lets focus on the first and then once we have that out of the way investigate the second.

Memory. Please do run memtest86+ as per my guide tonight. For purposes of this exercise leave your setting as is and all the sticks populated. If you have errors then start at step 1 to isolate where/what the error is.

[M4to1987]

HiVizMan wrote:
As you may well know Win8 does not actually shut down like XP or Win7 did. It is more like a hybrid hibernate thing. Two things are nagging at me, lets focus on the first and then once we have that out of the way investigate the second.

Memory. Please do run memtest86+ as per my guide tonight. For purposes of this exercise leave your setting as is and all the sticks populated. If you have errors then start at step 1 to isolate where/what the error is.

Allright, so I've just done 3 sepparate memtests using different speeds and clocks/voltages via the memtest86+ utility for 3 hours doing 3 passes each one of the tests without an error. I may also note here that Iam not experiencing any bsods or anything, I haven't had a single bsod since I bought the pc in late 2012.
Iam curious of what is the shut down method for windows 8, because I may have a clue here, this weird thing started happening once I deleted the hiberfil.sys file because it was taking a huge ammount of free space, around 40 GB !!! so I had to take it out via the command prompt through the debug console. But I think this might be the problem. Tonight when I go to sleep I will enable the hibernate function to see if it helps and test it after I come home from work if it was the thing that caused all this trouble.

[HiVizMan]

Cheers mate.

Most of the times these kind of issues are related with the new "Hybrid Shutdown" feature introduced in Windows 8. Hybrid shutdown feature of Windows 8 decreases the total startup time by hibernating the kernel session instead of closing it which reduces the overall Windows loading time because resuming from hibernated system session is very less work compared to a full system initialization.

Guide how to sort it without having the issues.

[M4to1987]

HiVizMan wrote:
Cheers mate.



Guide how to sort it without having the issues.

Allright I came home from work, I hit the power on button and the PC started without problems this time. So this might be the issue solved. My question is now, if I may, how can I remove the hibernate function without it interfering the startup of my PC?
I simply don't want the computer to shut down hibernating, I want it to shut down so the kernel would be fresh new when I start it up and mainly I want to get rid of the humongous 40 GB hiberfil.sys file. How can I do that please?

[HiVizMan]

Hit the link to the guide LINK


🙂 My bad I thought I posted the link.

[M4to1987]

HiVizMan wrote:
Hit the link to the guide LINK


🙂 My bad I thought I posted the link.

cheers dude, thanks for that 🙂