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Thanks. I've had no more problems for the past 2 days. I've set the parameters you suggest and also removed the Dell Quickset utility which modifies power plans. What causes a laptop to enter this 'dead ' state in the first place?

I've just done a clean install of W10 on my Dell Inspiron 7537 laptop. I turned off the laptop last night when the battery was about half discharged. I tried turning on the laptop today after it had been off 18 hours and it was completely dead - there was no response to the power on button and...