Sleep mode working correctly?

Curious if my sleep mode is working as it should. My desktop sleep mode works differently hence the reason I'm asking.

When my PC sleeps, I press a button on the keyboard or click the mouse (depending on however you set it up) and the PC quickly comes back on straight to my desktop to where I left off.

My XPS on the other hand falls asleep, I press the power button to wake it, it displays the Dell bootlogo, brings me to the Windows login for my password then to the desktop. It's as if I'm performing a cold boot rather than straight to the desktop after pressing power.

Is this how it should normally work?

 

Your desktop is going into Sleep mode (shuts down everything except RAM. Starting back up is nearly instant).

Your XPS is going into Hibernate mode (saves all contents from RAM into a hibernate.sys file on storage disk, like your SSD. Starting back up copies the content from hibernate.sys back into RAM, and then starts up. Starting back up is slower than the nearly-instant-on Sleep mode, but much faster than a full boot).

You can set your desktop and/or laptop to behave any way you want by going to:
Control Panel --> Power Options --> Choose What Closing the Lid does (on left-hand navigation menu).

 

Same thing here, and it is not hibernating. The computer just dies! The power button light is on and if I press any key the backlight of the keyboard turns and after 5s turn off again, but the computer wont wake

 

My sleep mode is not working at all even though in the power options the closing lid, power button etc is all set to sleep. Another bug yet again

 

I always turned off hibernation mode. close-lid sets to do nothing, Sleep model hasn't give me any problems yet.

 

So I checked. Sleep was active the whole time and hibernate was disabled. However, based on what some are saying here my XPS isn't actually sleeping but it's hibernating. Not sure what to do.

 

I have BIOS .19 - if the lid is open (and the laptop is in sleep mode) I just touch the trackpad or any key and within 3 seconds my Desktop comes up (I have no password enabled) - for sleep mode I just touch the power button and it goes off within 1-2 seconds). I believe that is the way it is supposed to operate.

 

Yeah doesn't sound like mine is working how it should. Not sure if there is a fix for this. I don't think it's supposed to take 30 sec or more to boot back to desktop from sleep (with the lid closed).