Windows 10: Sleep issue. PC wont sleep unless Hibernate is enabled?!

So the short of it is, my pc wont go to sleep UNLESS I enable hibernate time as well.

Not sure exactly when it became an issue - right around the time I bought an oculus rift and added a USB3 card and new ssd.

ive already been through the ringer with powercfg -energy which gives me 18 items, all usb items that refuse to go into selective suspend. No idea what thats about.

im clear on the powercfg -requests and im clear minus the windows update thingy on powercfg -waketimers

(pc doesnt wake from sleep anyhow, just wont GO to sleep).

Ive removed the pci-e usb3 card which didnt help. Disconnected the oculus and disabled the service which didnt help.

Its unrelated to those.

Could Intel management engine drivers or firmware do this? i update those relatively regularly.

I just dont know where to go next. I mean having hibernate enabled in order to sleep isnt the worst thing in the world, just not normally the way i do things - and doing it that way would just be masking whatever the problem is.

Thanks for any insight.

:)

 

sleep or hibernate

sleep and hibernate are the same thing now.


S3 'sleep' has the entire system powered off, EXCEPT for system ram. a copy of ram is stored on the HDD when entering sleep.
To answer the OP's question about the HDD taking wear and tear moving the laptop around - in sleep mode, it is powered off. ONLY system RAM has power in S3 sleep states.

Hibernate is when it loses power, it boots from the saved copy of ram. Often, this can load slower than a fresh boot since it has to load more from the HDD than usual.


so asking which you prefer... well, unless its a laptop you plan to store overnight or something, use sleep. its the same thing.

S3 sleep drains my laptop battery at only 2-3% an hour, so its not like its going to have a large impact on daily use.

 

sleep or hibernate

I think you have sleep and hibernate confused... sleep just puts the computer in a low power state, making resuming the session faster... hibernate shuts down the whole computer and basically just saves whats in RAM to the hdd and loads it on next startup. IIRC...

 

Shutting down, hibernating, or sleeping?

Speaking of ... I just built a new PC with an AMD Kaveri and Windows 7 64 and the option sleep is greyed out, I get shut down and hibernate; it's funny, on my PC (see specs) I get sleep and shut down not hibernate. I tried the bios but I'm clueless. Any ideas?