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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I swear most laptop sleep problems relate to wifi powersaving :(
(I also thought S0ix was supposed to fix all of this ...)
Fucking hell!
40+ years of laptop computing and sleep is still a problem !!!
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.