Windows 10 Desktop wakes from sleep to hibernate even when disabled

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A strange occurrence has recently been annoying me: I usually put my computer into sleep mode rather than shutting it down, but Windows has started deciding I really want to hibernate instead. Between 1 and 10 minutes after sleeping, the computer wakes up and hibernates. It only wakes very briefly and it seems impossible to prevent it from going into hibernation, but input is nevertheless registered.

In Event Viewer the reason for the wake is the infamous "S4 Doze to Hibernate" as the Wake Reason.

By my understanding the setting governing this behaviour is the "Hibernate After" setting listed under Sleep in the settings of the current power plan. Most people seem to be able to alter this behaviour by changing this setting to a high number or to zero, disabling it. However, this setting is already zero, i.e. "Never," yet the phenomenon still occurs. I tried changing it to a very large number (999999) but the computer still wakes up. In this situation, though, it seems like the computer wakes up, attempts to hibernate and fails to do so: subsequently booting up doesn't succeed properly and the computer reboots itself.

This is pretty bizarre behaviour because it seems like it should only occur with a computer on battery power anyway. What else governs this behaviour, and how can I disable it – without also disabling some other useful feature (e.g. disabling wake timers, disabling hibernate, that kind of thing)?

Best Answer

I have been seeing the same thing happen in the middle of the night. I'm asleep and all of a sudden the room is lit and my laptop is awake. I got to this page because of the same message in the Event Viewer: "S4 Doze to Hibernate".

The answer provided here, suggesting to take a look at AMD drivers, didn't help me since I'm not running any AMD hardware. Another website provided me with the answer and I thought it might be useful to share the solution here as well.

Source: http://mikeberggren.com/post/113733489241/wake-up

Follow these steps and change the values for both 'Battery' and 'Plugged in' to never (0). Don't forget to apply the same changes to the power plans that are not active.

Control Panel -> System and Security -> Power Options -> Change plan settings -> Change advanced power settings -> Sleep -> Hibernate after -> Setting:Never

This solved the problem for me.

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