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Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix It

15 points surprisetalk 2 days ago 6 comments

brokenmachine 2 days ago | parent

The marketing tries to tell us that we're on the brink of AGI, but still in 2026 putting a random laptop reliably to sleep remains an open problem.

BobbyTables2 44 minutes ago | parent

Fucking hell!

40+ years of laptop computing and sleep is still a problem !!!

chihuahua 14 minutes ago | parent

I question the wisdom of "Modern Standby." When I put my laptop in sleep mode, I want it to sleep. I don't want it to be using the network, checking for updates, fetching email, etc. It can do all of those things when I wake it up.

All of the hotbagging nonsense where a laptop cooks itself in a bag seems to be caused by Windows trying to be clever and deciding there's some really important stuff it needs to do, so it wakes up the machine, does a bunch of stuff, and doesn't get back to sleep.

Windows, you're not as clever as you think you are. None of this work is urgent. Just stay asleep until I wake you up. Seriously, just don't.

epihelix 29 minutes ago | parent

I swear most laptop sleep problems relate to wifi powersaving :(

(I also thought S0ix was supposed to fix all of this ...)

dmilliken 26 minutes ago | parent

Thank you thank you thank you. Op and Diallo. I traced it to event 1033 but could not make head way any further. I ended up just disabling sleep entirely which did not help my electric bill when I could not shut down! Edit this worked on my desktop for further context.

altcognito 17 minutes ago | parent

I had Opus debug my laptop restarts. It pulled down windebug and pointed out the two drivers that were causing a problem.

One of them was an HDMI audio driver, which wasn't completely a surprise given I connect to a KVM and I imagine something was weird about the connection (and I don't listen to audio through my monitor anyway)

The other was the realtek/intel driver for audio as well? (updated those) Never have had a problem again. Felt pretty good. Windows laptops are pretty awful about coming out of power save, but works like a champ now.