Windows 10: Windows update 2020 - gaming laptop sleep / hibernation

Ever since 2 days back I have updated my Windows 10 recent update, i cannot play games. Whenever I start playing the games COD etc, the system flips to "locking" or simply goes black screen while power red light is blinking.


I have tried all power management, disabling hibernate , balance power usage updates etc. but I still have same issue.


Some has diagnosed it is CPU over heating issue which I doubt it because this is a month old brand new gaming laptop


ASUS ROG Strix GeForce 1060 6B

Core i7 16 GB RAM

1TB HDD + 256 GB SDD


Please let me know how can I fix this issue?


I currently have Windows 10 64 bit 18363.900 -version 1909

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Hibernating laptop changes to sleep behaviour after Windows 10 May 2019 update

Hi Aditya,

Thank you for your reply. I have tried the two steps (turning of Hybrid sleep and Fast startup) you suggested but to no avail. Okay, for your two questions:

1. My laptop is a HP Pavilion 14-bf101tx, and currently running Windows 10 1903 (upgrading from 1809).
2. Nope. No error messages. I suppose the boot process was successful, however, my battery was reduced. That's why I suggest the post title as "Hibernating changes to sleep behaviour" because the battery level reduction looks like sleep behaviour.

Please inform me of any diagnostics information you might need. Thank you for your kind assistance.

 

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...