Cannot properly Sleep or Hibernate in Windows 7.

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volkerball3011

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Hello all,

I've been having an issue with my PC's sleep and hibernate functions lately. When it's time to shut down my PC for the night, I used to go with hibernate over sleep. Unfortunately, beginning about 3-4 months ago, my computer started getting spotty with when it wanted to hibernate. Roughly 1 out of every 5 times I'd try, my monitor and peripherals would all shut off, but my PC's fans, hard drives and whatever else would keep running. It would basically act like it was still running, but I could not pull it back to being fully "awake," nor could I shut it down without cutting power.

Unable to find any solutions to this issue, I decided to go with Hybrid Sleep for a while. Same issue. Frustrated, I decided to just abandon Hibernate completely and use Sleep when shutting down for the night. Not as energy efficient, I realize, but I just didn't care anymore.

Things were going fine for maybe 2 weeks or so, but my PC is now doing the exact same thing when I try to enter Sleep Mode; shutting off all peripherals + the monitor, then just sitting with fans idling, still basically "on" and forcing me to force a shutdown. It seems that I now basically have to restart the computer fully after a night of use before it will let me use sleep, which is tiresome and defeats the purpose.

I've looked online and tried countless solutions, even some from the forums here, and none of them seem to work. Just a few minutes ago, it did it again. I'd rather not be forced into having to do full shutdowns every single night, because startup is just too slow, and I'm impatient.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Oh, and before I forget, my specs:
-Dell Inspiron i570
-Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
-AMD Athlon II X4 640
-8GB(2x4GB) Ballistix Sport Memory
-AMD Radeon HD 6670
-Western Digital Blue, 500GB
-Western Digital Blue, 1000GB
 
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geofelt

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What is different from when all worked ok and now?

Is there possibly a motherboard bios update that addresses the issue?

FWIW
I prefer sleep to ram(S3) Only the ram stays powered on.
If you use hibernate, the contents of ram are written out to your hard drive hiberfile. That takes time.
sleep/wake should be under 5 seconds.
 
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volkerball3011

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As far as I can tell, nothing has changed. I haven't installed many(if any) new programs or made any major changes to system settings or anything else. I forgot to add that the issue first started where I would hibernate, only for the PC to "wake up" a few minutes later and BSOD on me. I sorted this problem out, apparently some component within the PC was refusing to power down properly. However, the current issue started a few months later.

I've gone down the list of BIOS and driver updates, and everything seems to be up to date and in order. The last round of updates for my PC were in 2012, just a few weeks before I purchased it.

& yeah, I used to use Sleep Mode exclusively before deciding to switch to Hibernate to save at least a little bit of power, but it's become too much trouble. I'd happily just stick with Sleep Mode from now on, if only it weren't now developing the same issues.

So far I've tinkered with Sleep and Hibernate options, I've made sure to disable various devices/network devices from waking my PC from sleep(or preventing it), and nothing seems to work. :(
 
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volkerball3011

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Bump.

I've researched more on the issue, and the two things that keeps coming up when I still get a BSOD from this issue are "NTOSKRNL.EXE' and "NTKRNLMP.EXE." Thing is, I don't know if this is related to my computer powering down peripherals and refusing to actually sleep or hibernate, or if it's an entirely unrelated issue. I set my computer to run scans and then hibernate as I went to bed last night, and woke up to a BSOD on my monitor. Ran whocrashed.exe, and it highlighted the above files yet again.

I've tried various fixes to the above issues, I've run memtest, chkdsk, none of it seems to solve either issue. I'm still pretty much stuck, here.
 
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volkerball3011

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I've tried memtest86 a few times, and it has never found any issues. Is there a number of passes I should aim for before I call it off? I usually do 5-6.

I checked out System Restore, and the earliest restore point it has is from the 12th or so of this month, and this problem is unfortunately much older than that.

All the research I've done on the issue points to "ntoskrnl.exe" being corrupted in some way, and I've seen sugggestions that I should run Windows 7 install repair, but it seems that my PC isn't wanting to work with my repair disk. Very frustrating. :(
 
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volkerball3011

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I'd like to avoid that if it's at all possible. I've had my share of factory defaults and whatever else, and having to set my data back up afterward. On top of this, the only tool I have to repair or alter Windows 7 like that is my repair disk. My PC didn't come with a Windows 7 disk(and I don't know any manufacturers who still ship disks to begin with).

 
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