Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Disadvantages of Modern Sleep mode (S0)

Here is a detailed information for disadvantages of "Modern" S0 standby sleep and what options we have to replace legacy Sleep mode.

S0 sleep and overheating

Lets check requirements for DELL for using the only supported Sleep on its new computers. 

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/xps/faq-modern-standby/647fa2d5f4ccf8a8de87e727

Information about power consumption during different Standby Sleep modes here.

S0 sleep and battery

During S0 sleep your computer still uses power. And it uses significantly more power than in S3 sleep. Your CPU is active. Your disks are active. Your network hardware could be active all the time.

So what happens when you use your PC, your battery enters in critically low level, your computer enters into sleep and you connect it to adapter after few days? 

Sleep is not visible from Shut down menu?

The problem

You have installed graphics video card drivers. They work fine and updated. But "Sleep" is still missing from "Shutdown" menu?

Well known causes and solutions


You still have the issue?