Solar flares, cosmic rays, and bit flips?

[CJM]

My Surface Pro 4 has a weird issue where the Group Policy to show the "Safe to Shutdown" screen seems to be reversed.

When I tell it to shutdown, it is difficult to power it back on. My battery drains when it is in its laptop bag. Unfortunately, the screen is completely blank.

In an attempt to diagnose and resolve the issue, I decided to opt to switch back to the ancient "Safe to Shutdown" screen from the Windows 95 days. Now the device seems to be operating like a modern laptop. I can easily power it back up with one click of the button, and the battery life seems to be preserved when powered off.

It is weird behavior,...

[_I_]

op is not talking about that
he is talking about a setting that he does not understand how it works

[CJM]

Messaggio originale di _I_:

op is not talking about that
he is talking about a setting that he does not understand how it works

Dang flabbit.

It looked like the right Group Policy. The thing is named "Do not turn off system power after a Windows system shutdown has occurred."

I just stopped to RTFM, and it says:

This policy setting allows you to configure whether power is automatically turned off when Windows shutdown completes. This setting does not affect Windows shutdown behavior when shutdown is manually selected using the Start menu or Task Manager user interfaces. Applications such as UPS software may rely on Windows shutdown behavior.

This setting is only applicable when Windows shutdown is initiated by software programs invoking the Windows programming interfaces ExitWindowsEx() or InitiateSystemShutdown().

If you enable this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down and remains in a powered state, ready for power to be safely removed.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down to a fully powered-off state.

Well, toot...

[PopinFRESH]

Solarflare doesn't exist any more, they were acquired by Xilinx,.. who was then acquired by AMD. AMD doesn't care about flipping your bits or your group policy settings.

Also, usually RTFM is a good place to start troubleshooting



/s

[Crashed]

Messaggio originale di CJM:

Messaggio originale di _I_:

op is not talking about that
he is talking about a setting that he does not understand how it works

Dang flabbit.

It looked like the right Group Policy. The thing is named "Do not turn off system power after a Windows system shutdown has occurred."

I just stopped to RTFM, and it says:

This policy setting allows you to configure whether power is automatically turned off when Windows shutdown completes. This setting does not affect Windows shutdown behavior when shutdown is manually selected using the Start menu or Task Manager user interfaces. Applications such as UPS software may rely on Windows shutdown behavior.

This setting is only applicable when Windows shutdown is initiated by software programs invoking the Windows programming interfaces ExitWindowsEx() or InitiateSystemShutdown().

If you enable this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down and remains in a powered state, ready for power to be safely removed.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down to a fully powered-off state.

Well, toot...

By the way, if you are on a domain network any group policies imposed by the domain will override local group policies.

[CJM]

Messaggio originale di Crashed:

By the way, if you are on a domain network any group policies imposed by the domain will override local group policies.

I know. I've administered Active Directory before.

This is my personal computer. I would say it isn't joined to a domain, but having seen an Azure cloud and its Microsoft Account integration, but not being completely clear on how cleanly the lines are drawn, I can't say with 100% certainty. Clearly the Microsoft account is tied to an email account, which is tied to a domain in a public registrar.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Surface series have an internal battery just like a tablet. It could be faulty, causing these premature unexpected shutdowns