Sleep always crashes!

Probably the biggest thing that makes me envy Macbooks...

Sleep on Windows never works for me!

I want my laptop to go to sleep when I close it, and resume when I open it. But I find with the m14x if I leave it for a day or two, when I go to use it again I get Windows Startup Error or whatever and I have to select start windows normally because it's crashed or lost power or something during standby.
Shouldn't it switch standby into hibernate at some point or something?
What are recommendations about "hybrid sleep" in power settings?
How do you guys do it?

 

I think you can change it using the Power option in control panel at the Advance Power Options.

The Hybrid Sleep should be off if you want to use the Hibernation option, and in that Hybrid Sleep section, there should be some option about the sleep after certain mins, what should the power button do if u press it, and what should the laptop do if you close the screen.

Sometime before I do a fresh install on my old Desktop, the sleep option never work for me too, but after I fresh install it, then it work again, and perfectly without any longer than 1 min wait, though I still not sure why it didnt sleep before I fresh install the windows.

 

yea my desktop is gayvista and it never works for sleep, its like random and its stupid sometimes itl sleep fine, with liek multiple tabs open and stuff, then other times i have to close everything and then it still dont work.

 

Well mine always goes to sleep just fine it's just that if I leave it sleeping too long it just crashes and does a hard boot rather than resuming and I lose all my stuff.

 

That also happen to me as well, If I leave it like from 10hrs or higher, it will crash when I try to wake it up, or sometime it do wake up but just sit there and the screen wont light up at all, so I have to do the cold boot.

 

Try turning off hibernate in power options, by default I think it is set to hibernate 360mins into sleep. This always causes problems for me. Now my machine just uses S3 sleep (which uses a little battery but wakes in a second) and never crashes

 

do all your windows upgrade and put all in default!

If still crashes s call dell lol

 

I turned on hybrid sleep and left it for a day and now the battery checker says half but it wouldn't turn on at all until I plugged it in!
And then when I DID plug it in, it gave me the Windows Error Recovery thing again and didn't restore.

I like the turning off hibernate idea though, I think that's what we're going to have to go with.

 

I've actually noticed this problem as well - if I let it sleep "too long" it'll crash when booting back up, and the Windows error start screen will appear.

Thoughts?

 

So why not try to use the setting like after put to sleep for more than 'certain' of time and have it auto Hibernating, this work for me, I never had a problem getting those BSOD. Usually the default are 360mins.

 

Right now I've been playing with every setting I can think of - I may use my respawn discs this weekend and simply start over. If it keeps happening, well...thank the maker for warranties.

 

I stuck it back on the defaults and it magically started working.. or stopped crashing. I'm not really sure which, it went through a quarter battery in like 3 days of "sleep" so I'm not sure if it's actually hibernating after 360 min like I told it to.