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Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it

What HN thinks

Forty years of laptops, and 'close the lid' remains an unsolved research problem.

Modern Standby is the culprit
Many blame Microsoft's S0/Modern Standby for laptops waking, heating up in bags and draining batteries, and miss the old S3 sleep where everything really powered down.
Wifi and MediaTek drivers break sleep
Commenters trace sleep crashes to wifi drivers, especially the MediaTek MT7922 and Intel AX211, and work around them by disabling power saving, unloading the driver or switching to a USB dongle.
Macs just work, PCs vary
Mac users say sleep is reliable for them. Others reply that the many hardware and driver combinations on Windows laptops make reliability hard, though vendor QC still gets the blame.

Consensus: Most agree laptop sleep on Windows and Linux PCs is unreliable, and often worse than it was a decade ago. Buggy drivers combined with modern standby are the usual suspects.

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Claude (service): Commenters used it to read crash dumps and event logs and track down the drivers breaking sleep.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 3 days ago.

Points: 52
Comments: 47
Best rank: #11
Posted: 2026-10-20 by surprisetalk
Category: Hardware

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