Solved Sleep/Hibernate mode

gallicbear11 · May 12, 2024

I am on 23H2 2024-04, Windows 11. My laptop is an HP 15z-ef1. It has 8GB of ram. All along, for two years, it was acting with no problems. I recently refreshed it and reinstalled windows because of a blue screen of death. Now, after a period of inactivity, 3-4 hours at least, I have a hard time waking it from sleep. No matter how I look at the settings, I never find anything other than simple sleep. I had never had problems with simple sleep. This seems like hibernation or suspend, and my version of windows does not find that in settings when I search for a setting. Anyway, I press the power button, I press keys, I stir the mouse, no reaction. It takes 2 or 3 minutes to wake it. What is this? How can it be solved? Thanks.

FreeBooter · May 12, 2024

Try updating your computer graphic card driver.

antspants · May 12, 2024

Hibernation / Sleep settings. Click Start > Control Panel. Dbl-click Power Options.

Edwin · May 12, 2024

gallicbear11 said:
What is this? How can it be solved?

Don't use Sleep..., let the display turn off, but don't use Sleep.

travel9898 · May 12, 2024

In my laptop the manufacturer head disabled the option to enable customised power options. And because of that only sleep was available. I went into control panel and manually went through each of those power options and was able to manually create a new profile and also enable Hibernate along with it.

glasskuter · May 12, 2024

Please do this and post a screenshot.
Open command prompt as admin and enter powercfg -a

gallicbear11 · May 13, 2024

Sorry; your reply went to junk mail. Didn't know anyone had answered.
After reading your answers, I changed my settings to 'never', Edwin.
Also, glasskutter, to the powercfg -a. It says this:
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S3)
Hibernate
Hybrid Sleep
Fast Startup
Guess we'll see tomorrow morning when I open my laptop what happens. Will post back.
Thank you all.

kelper · May 13, 2024

Sometimes, the problem is that the laptop does not really shut down fully. Does it have a power-on light? When it won't 'wake' have you tried holding the power button down for thirty seconds? This would ensure that the laptop is actually fully shutdown. Have you looked at the reliability history under Control Panel...Security and Maintenance....Security?

idgat · May 13, 2024

gallicbear11 said:
Sorry; your reply went to junk mail. Didn't know anyone had answered.

Huh ???

antspants · May 13, 2024

idgat said:
Huh ???

Post notifications via email.

hdmi · May 13, 2024

If you're not going to use Hibernate/Hybrid Sleep/Fast Startup, just turn it off:
powercfg h off

idgat · May 13, 2024

antspants said:
Post notifications via email.

Doh!! Of course !!

idgat · May 13, 2024

gallicbear11 said:
Anyway, I press the power button, I press keys, I stir the mouse, no reaction. It takes 2 or 3 minutes to wake it. What is this? How can it be solved?

Yeh, that's one of the reasons why I gave up on sleep and hibernate. Back many versions of Windows, it all seemed hit and miss ... worked on this device, didn't work on that device. More often not working than did work.

Always found it a bit gimmicky, as if only used to appease the users environmental conscience about power saving.

I never knew whether it was device related or Windows related, just wasn't worth the effort so disabled both ever since.

And in any case, devices are built a bit more stable these days, sleep/hibernate probably doesn't make much difference to the lifetime

antspants · May 13, 2024

Don’t all laptops these days go into S3 (Suspend to Ram) sleeping state? I think you can disable that.

See Sleep States Available on Windows 11 PC Tutorial

This tutorial will explain and show you how to see the power sleep states available on your Windows 11 PC. System power states describe the power consumption of the system as a whole. The operating system supports six system power states, referred to as S0 (fully on and operational) through S5...

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There is also “Possibly” a setting in your BIOS.

gallicbear11 · May 13, 2024

I guess the setting in the Control Panel took care of it. Thank you all.

Try3 · May 13, 2024

antspants said:
Don’t all laptops these days go into S3 (Suspend to Ram) sleeping state?

No, more & more laptops these days come with S0 Modern standby instead.
[S0 Modern standby aka S0 Low power idle aka S0ix]

All the best,
Denis

Try3 · May 13, 2024

gallicbear11 said:
I have a hard time waking it from sleep

I wonder if it was successfully entering S3 Sleep?
I can guide you in using Event viewer to find out, if you want.

Denis

glasskuter · May 13, 2024

antspants said:
Don’t all laptops these days go into S3 (Suspend to Ram) sleeping state?

No, modern standby(S0) has been the default in laptops for several years now and it's actually not sleep at all in the way we think of sleep. Some users who keep the lid of their laptop closed when not in use or who carry it in an enclosed case have reported various detrimental issues of using S0, overheating being the main one.
Some laptops UEFI bios allow the user to enable S3 with a regedit but most do not. Brink gives a good explanation of the difference in S0 and S3 here.

Disable Modern Standby in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to disable Modern Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) to enable S3 support on a Windows 10 and Windows 11 device. In Windows 10 and Windows 11, there are two power models for PCs: S3 and Modern Standby (S0 Low Power Idle). The S3 power model is an older standard and is...

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I don't think anyone here knows more about modern standby devices that @Try3 as he has done extensive testing on it.