Fast Start up depression

Hi, for my entire Wondows 10 life I had either: 1) a red X windows was not shut down properly in logs. or 2) turn off fastboot and feel like I was missing out.

That was my last PC which was a i7 4790k, turns out the problem was a Haswell refresh on my particular Asus board.

Then Windows 11 came along and I've had Fast start up enabled and no longer feel like a lepar.

But

A week or so ago I turned on PC which took a while, then got an error message from Nvidia asking me to send a crash report. booted safe mode, ran DDU, reinstalled latest driver, ran DISM, all seemd fine, except when I turned off PC the screen turned off but the tower didn't

For a week I've been trouble shooting and I thought I'd found it, but after working great for four days, it won't turn off again, just error 41, it's not actually logging a problem because it doesn't know there is one, except me pressing the restart, I left it for hours.

So I guess I need to disable Fast start up once again. I, even tried a OS re-install, that's what fixed it for four days. I just feel defeated as it's worked great for 5 years and there's not been a driver updated that I havn't tried rolling back, re-installed Windows, installed drivers, fine for four days, then breaks, only updates in the last 3 days Defender definations.

Is there something I havn't tried? I even refreshed my Bios as there was an update.

There are no issues when running or starting, it just wont turn off with FS enabled?

Thanks

Hi. It appears you have a vVME disk - a SSD.

Fast Startup is intended for hard drives, so is redundant. You should not see any noticeable startup benefit with it enabled.

Cross-check- how long does it take for a cold boot to reach the lock screen?

2) turn off fastboot

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- I'm guessing you meant fast startup.

hi, yeah I did, it's fast enough. just seems a little more fully loaded with it enabled, just seconds, and the shutdown was nearly instant. I'll get used to it again, as I said, I just feel beaten! Hate not being able to find the culprit. thanks again.

It's a different issue I guess, with 4790 it shut down but logged a red X every other boot, this one wont turn off at all, and the PC doesn't seem to realise

It's quite well recognised that in some cases Fast Startup can cause problems. As you don't need it.. it's one problem you can simply set aside.
And if you don't use hibernation - you could disable that and save some disk space as both use hiberfil.sys. But then, you have a large disk...