Windows Hibernate Does a Shut Down

New Sager NP7255 Laptop. Came with Windows 10. At first there was no Hibernate function and so I did an elevated command prompt and executed powercfg -h on but didn't make a difference.

Went into Control Panel > Power Options > Choose What Power Buttons Do, had to click the 'Change Settings That Are Not Available' since the Hibernate option amongst others was greyed out. Enabled Hibernation. Waa laa, it now appears in the Windows Power Menu (along with Shut Down and Restart)

HOWEVER, selecting Hibernate in Windows actually shuts down the computer. None of my programs are loaded when I power up and there's not indication of Hibernating on shut down. Even though I have the power button in the power profile set to Hibernate, it does the same thing.

First time in many years with Windows laptops I've encountered this one. What gives?

 

Do you have the required hiberfil.sys file in your C: drive? (Should be just below the Windows directory.)

 

C:\>attrib h*.sys
A SH I C:\hiberfil.sys

Essentially what is happening is Windows 10 is crashing upon resume and then immediately rebooting. Microsoft, being understandably embarrassed they still have BSODs, has suppressed them in Windows 10. I am thinking maybe I should disable the setting in Win10 to reboot on crash and see if I can see what is causing the computer to crash.

 

Not a bad idea. Double check that the memory debugging option in the advanced system settings is set for at least kernel memory dump - if not, a full memory dump. This might give you a minidump file or two to examine and lead off of.

 

Still don't have an issue with it. Could be a problem with OPs system TBH

If OP had the time, a fresh install might be a good idea. Keepin things minimal