I had a similar issue with an HP Omen gaming rig I have. Fix was the same as the article but I put up with it for years.
Sometimes I would investigate but the monotony of tracing things in the Event Viewer and analysis was too much for my ADHD-addled brain. Enter Claude CLI and working through it with prompts plus allowing Claude to execute PowerShell to diagnose was painless and resolved the problem.
brokenmachine 2 days ago [-]
The marketing tries to tell us that we're on the brink of AGI, but still in 2026 putting a random laptop reliably to sleep remains an open problem.
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yongjik 13 minutes ago [-]
One day, humanity will ask AI one too many questions about laptop with broken power management, and it will realize that it can instead start a global thermonuclear war, and that way it will never have to deal with broken laptops any more.
... and that would be the day humanity knows AGI was achieved.
userbinator 18 minutes ago [-]
The ultimate solution would be a fixed MT7922 driver, but try as I might, I haven't been able to find one online.
Perhaps it's time to ask an LLM of your choice to make one.
altcognito 1 hours ago [-]
I had Opus debug my laptop restarts. It pulled down windebug and pointed out the two drivers that were causing a problem.
One of them was an HDMI audio driver, which wasn't completely a surprise given I connect to a KVM and I imagine something was weird about the connection (and I don't listen to audio through my monitor anyway)
The other was the realtek/intel driver for audio as well? (updated those) Never have had a problem again. Felt pretty good. Windows laptops are pretty awful about coming out of power save, but works like a champ now.
NordStreamYacht 51 minutes ago [-]
I had a compaq laptop which worked fine until I got a dock, updated windows and after that, XP would only work properly while docked. The dock had a lot more devices, and obviously drivers were causing problems. But corporate had locked down the machine and I had to live with it until I was upgraded to a Thinkpad.
bowsamic 6 minutes ago [-]
Wow, as a MacBook user for the last decade I had thought the rest of technology would have caught up by now with such a basic feature. Embarrassing
nehal3m 44 minutes ago [-]
I’m all for convenience but not intentionally writing hours of work to disk before closing the lid (which you already know can be janky) is wild to me.
zakisaad 29 minutes ago [-]
I think this is more about workspace state, not saving working data to disk.
dmilliken 1 hours ago [-]
Thank you thank you thank you. Op and Diallo. I traced it to event 1033 but could not make head way any further. I ended up just disabling sleep entirely which did not help my electric bill when I could not shut down! Edit this worked on my desktop for further context.
epihelix 1 hours ago [-]
I swear most laptop sleep problems relate to wifi powersaving :(
(I also thought S0ix was supposed to fix all of this ...)
BobbyTables2 2 hours ago [-]
Fucking hell!
40+ years of laptop computing and sleep is still a problem !!!
nokeya 3 minutes ago [-]
Microsoft is to blame for this mess. Everything was ok before their “modern sleep” - C-states and stuff. Everything except memory sleeps. But no, they wanted to be like Apple. And, as always, they did it in most horrible way.
chihuahua 1 hours ago [-]
I question the wisdom of "Modern Standby." When I put my laptop in sleep mode, I want it to sleep. I don't want it to be using the network, checking for updates, fetching email, etc. It can do all of those things when I wake it up.
All of the hotbagging nonsense where a laptop cooks itself in a bag seems to be caused by Windows trying to be clever and deciding there's some really important stuff it needs to do, so it wakes up the machine, does a bunch of stuff, and doesn't get back to sleep.
Windows, you're not as clever as you think you are. None of this work is urgent. Just stay asleep until I wake you up. Seriously, just don't.
evolighting 12 seconds ago [-]
"Modern Standby" is something that makes your laptop act like a phone. In my view, its only real purpose is to plausibly collect sensor data—just like a phone, or like all those "smart" speakers and "smart" TVs. The data itself has potential buyers and interested parties; it's a well-developed industry chain, and it's even subsidized by users paying for the devices themselves.
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Sometimes I would investigate but the monotony of tracing things in the Event Viewer and analysis was too much for my ADHD-addled brain. Enter Claude CLI and working through it with prompts plus allowing Claude to execute PowerShell to diagnose was painless and resolved the problem.
... and that would be the day humanity knows AGI was achieved.
Perhaps it's time to ask an LLM of your choice to make one.
One of them was an HDMI audio driver, which wasn't completely a surprise given I connect to a KVM and I imagine something was weird about the connection (and I don't listen to audio through my monitor anyway)
The other was the realtek/intel driver for audio as well? (updated those) Never have had a problem again. Felt pretty good. Windows laptops are pretty awful about coming out of power save, but works like a champ now.
(I also thought S0ix was supposed to fix all of this ...)
40+ years of laptop computing and sleep is still a problem !!!
All of the hotbagging nonsense where a laptop cooks itself in a bag seems to be caused by Windows trying to be clever and deciding there's some really important stuff it needs to do, so it wakes up the machine, does a bunch of stuff, and doesn't get back to sleep.
Windows, you're not as clever as you think you are. None of this work is urgent. Just stay asleep until I wake you up. Seriously, just don't.