Windows – How to prevent Windows 10 from going to S3 Sleep when Sleep is disabled

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My Windows 10 Pro version is 1703, build 15063.540.

Settings -> System -> Batery -> Power & sleep:

Is obviously set to Never.

In spite of this setting, my legal copy of Windows 10 Pro goes into suspend in a few moments, maybe a minute, since first gone to suspend manually, I mean:

Start -> Power -> Sleep.

Until I do this first sleep, everything works normally, i.e. the laptop stays always on. I have no idea why or what causes the issue, but I would very much like to start debugging this thing, since I would like to use sleep mode.

Where shall I start?

What do you need me to provide?

Please do comment, if there is no obvious answer.

powercfg -availablesleepstates

PS C:\> powercfg -availablesleepstates

The following sleep states are available on this system:

Standby (S3)
Hibernate
Hybrid Sleep
Fast Startup

The following sleep states are not available on this system:

Standby (S1)
    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S2)
    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)
    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Best Answer

Press Win+R, Run prompt will appear.
Type regedit and press OK button; confirm the UAC prompt.

In the header of Registry Editor put this path:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0

Double-click on Attributes value and change its value to 2.
Close the Registry editor and open Control Panel.
In the Control Panel navigate to this path:

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options -> Change Plan Settings
Click on Change advanced power settings.
Navigate to item System unattended sleep timeout and expand it.
Change its value to your liking, e.g. 1 day is 1440 minutes.

Source: Microsoft Answer

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I had the same problem, and also frequently freeze.

IF YOU GOT ATI

Solved like that:

Go to \Local Settings\Application Data\ATI\ACE\Profiles.xml and replace "x" by "X"

<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0"> 
<Property name="Want_0" value="xxxxx" /> 
<Property name="Want_1" value="XXXXX" /> 
<Property name="Want_2" value="85000" /> 
</Feature> 
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"> 
<Property name="Want_0" value="xxxxx" /> 
<Property name="Want_1" value="XXXXX" /> 
<Property name="Want_2" value="120000" /> 
</Feature>

The problem is due to the powerloss of the ATI devices when it go to sleep mode. This will adjust the power !

ELSE I DON'T KNOW ! =)

Linux – Is Hybrid Sleep the same in Linux as in Windows

Yes, hybrid sleep should be the same between windows and linux. Both should write state to disk allowing for a resume from disk after a total power-off, but then suspend to ram allowing for a very fast resume if the battery (or line power) are maintained.

You have updated your question with more information and it seems to me either your diagnosis is correct - your machine doesn't support hibernate well - or you haven´t successfully configured hibernate.

First, make sure hibernate actually works - here´s a guide I followed and I hibernate successfully now: https://askubuntu.com/a/821122/858118

In particular even after enabling swap and updating grub hibernate still didn't work the first time because I didn't realize it will only work after the kernel has booted cleanly once with the resume swap partition set. One full reboot cycle after configuration, and hibernate was functioning.

Assuming you have hibernate functioning (sudo systemctl hibernate works), then you should be able to test hybrid-sleep manually with something like sudo systemctl hybrid-sleep and hybrid-sleep should work also.

Finally, you will want to configure which actions (lid close? power button? critical battery level?) trigger hybrid-sleep, and a good resource for that is here: https://askubuntu.com/a/781957/858118

I've provided Ubuntu links but the underlying kernel+grub interaction, systemd and upower interaction etc should apply to any distro I think.

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