x230 hangs when resuming from sleep/hibernate

Sometimes my x230 becomes unresponsive after resuming from sleep/hibernate.

The "system" process would take up one core (25%) and the hard disk activity light would stay on all the time. I could switch between applications that were already started, but I couldn't start any new applications, and giving the currently running applications any keyboard or mouse input, would put them in the "not responding" state.

The only way I found to get out of this state is to do a cold shut-down... holding on the power button for 5 sec.

This hang would happen quite often... about 3-4 out of 10 resumes... very annoying that I would lose the state of all my open applications.

I did a system update to the latest driver versions, including a bios update. That seemed to fix the problem... at least for a while... Then it started happening again, althouh less frequently... but it still happens.

Any ideas?

thanks

 

Are you running a SandForce SSD with older firmware?

It could potentially be a hard drive issue.

edit: Sleep and hibernate problems both? Sleep issues can be attributed to RAM errors because the data is cached there whereas hibernate is stored on the hard disk. Are you having problems with both or just one?

 

Yes, I'm using a MyDigitalSSD Smart Series mSATA drive which has the SandForce 2281 with firmware 5.0.2.

So, it's almost the latest firmware. MyDigital hasn't yet released the 5.0.3 firmware which fixes the TRIM problems.

You may be right that it is the SSD... since it sometimes hangs on the bios splash screen, again with the hard disk activity light remaining on. Sometimes it seems like the bios is not recognizing the drive, and I have to turn it off and back on... then it works.

 

It certainly sounds like it's the SSD. I'd copy my data and make recovery disks now while you still can then reinstall the OS or copy the image onto a new drive and start an RMA process for the SSD.