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by vladvasiliu 1019 days ago
This. During lockdowns, I dusted off an old PC and set it up with windows for gaming. The computer was in front of my bed. One out of two nights, the thing would randomly wake out of hibernation, blasting the freaking blue bitlocker screen at me (password unlock, since that PC didn't have a tpm).

This PC was kept reasonably up to date, too (usually installed whatever update at the most a day or two after they came out, complete with the reboot), so not sure what it was hoping to do, exactly.
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FirmwareBurner 1019 days ago
>One out of two nights, the thing would randomly wake out of hibernation

I'm sure you mistakenly used sleep instead of hibernate without knowing or remembering, to have that issue, or you had the issue where hibernate didn't work and reverted to sleep instead.

I also had that issue and discovered that the Linux dual-boot installation with Grub's changes to the MBR broke Window's capability to hibernate, so me hitting hibernate was actually triggering sleep instead.

Hibernate does not randomly wake up.

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criddell 1019 days ago
On Windows, hibernate is a sleep state.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/k...

Here’s an example of a Windows machine waking from hibernate and how it was fixed:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/707115/windows-10-...

These kinds of problems are not uncommon and are not always due to users confusing the different sleep states.

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tym0 1019 days ago
Right, I have the same problem with my PC, guess I'll look for those hacks.
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