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    m15 fails to automatically hibernate

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by etern4l, Aug 26, 2019.

  1. etern4l

    etern4l Notebook Virtuoso

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    My m15 recently started failing to automatically hibernate. I have had sleep disabled and automatic hibernate set in power options to 10 min and at 5% critical battery level. Very recently experienced issues with both - on one occasion battery ran down to zero and laptop shut down, yesterday I left if on battery on the desk without explicitly hibernating only to find out later it was on all the time and almost ran out of battery. Both auto-hibernate functions used to work as expected until recently. Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix? Many thanks.
     
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    Have you use any tweaking utilities by any chance?
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Aug 26, 2019
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    Nothing apart from the AWCC which messes with power profiles. Incidentally this is updating now, so will see if this has any effect.

    Updating AWCC and/or shortening the "hibernate after" period seems to have helped.
     
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    Do you use Samsung or MSFT NVMe driver?
     
    Vasudev, Aug 29, 2019
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    @Vasudev on mine i'm using the MSFT drivers, is using Samsung drivers worth it or shall i keep it as it is?
    @etern4l apology for the small thread hijack
     
    CptXabaras, Sep 5, 2019
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    Samsung NVMe might cause excessive power drain on battery. Disable Link power saving present in Intel rapid storage panel and disk response time is much better.
     
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