Question Laptop is slow wake from sleep mode ?

[38michael]

Hi guys,

I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Laptop with Ryzen 7, RTX3070, 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM, which for some reason takes extremely long to wake from sleep.

The wake up time is probably as long or even longer than the boot time and takes around 15 seconds from pressing a key until I can type my password. What I noticed is that the wake up time is delayed by further 5 - 10 seconds when there's an external monitor connected via HDMI. I'm using the sleep option, not the hibernate one.

I tried putting my laptop to sleep with nearly no programs running in the background, just to see if it speeds up, but it didn't. The laptop is running Windows 10 Home.

My other 9yo laptop running windows 7 wakes up from sleep nearly instantly, so it's driving me nuts with the new one.

I'd appreciate any advice on what the issue could be.

 

[Lutfij]

Did the laptop come spec'd with 32GB's of ram or was the ram added on later? Make and model of your SSD in your laptop?

First off, check and see if your laptop is pending any BIOS update. Second, check and see what your OS version is, right click Start>System. Ideally you should be on version 212H1 for Windows 10. As for your OS, do you experience any other anomalies apart from the slow wake time? Might want to have your bootable USB installer in hand. If you don't have one, you can fabricate your bootable USB installer using Windows Media Creation Tools.

Prior to reinstalling your OS, if you should, I'd recommend manually sourcing all relevant (latest revision)drivers for your laptop from Lenovo's support site using your laptop's serial number. Once downloaded, manually reinstall all drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

 

[38michael]

It came with 32GB of RAM. The SSD is 'WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY 1T00-1101' 1TB according to Lenovo software. This is the SSD it came with and where Windows is installed. I have also added a Gigabyte Aourus gen4 SSD, but only using it as storage. I have measured read speed of around 3500MB/s on both SSDs.

I have updated all the drivers recently and at the moment there are no updates available through the Lenovo Vantage software apart from Nvidia Geforce Experience, which I have not installed. The latest Nvidia driver is installed. I have also installed the Lenovo System Update app, which I think updated some additional drivers.

The Lenovo Vantage software used to give me an option for a BIOS update, but I didn't update it as I have read updating BIOS might potentially cause hardware issues. It doesn't give me this option anymore for some reason when I do the scan, but I know my BIOS version is GKCN23WW and the latest one released recently is GKCN40WW, which is available through Lenovo's website.

My Windows 10 version is 20H2 build 19042.1110 and Windows Update is giving me no further update options.

In terms of the abnormalities, yes there are more. I have noticed compared to my other 9yo laptop with win7 there is around 0.5s delay in opening programs and the older laptop is actually faster in loading programs by this time, but I'm not sure if it's not just a Windows 10 thing in general. I have also recently tried to update the integrated AMD GPU driver, which caused black screen and then screen flickering, but I managed to revert to a previous restore point and by turning a couple of settings on and off it started to work again, but not sure if this is just an issue with the specific driver.

Also there's a weird scaling issue where in some programs the text appears a bit blurry. I have a 1080p monitor connected to the laptop via HDMI and certain programs are okay on both, but some of them are blurry on one of the monitors, but not on the other. For example MS Paint is blurry on the 1080p monitor (I used the same monitor with my other laptop and win7 and it looked okay).