Fake sleep mode

[Vl4t0m1c0]

Hello, dear people from support. I bought new notebook last month :

HP Spectre x360 13-ap0008nc

And i have issues with sleep mode. Whenever i put notebook in sleep he is only in some fake sleep. He is still running with screen turned off. Funs are running on almost fullspeed like nonstop.  It is really noisy when i am trying to go to sleep. Right now i am always shuting down notebook bcs this issue. I upgraded windows to last version and drivers too, even bios firmware . But problem is still there. If i put my notebook in bag he will be choking so i am afraid to do that in sleep. When i am using him he is really silent i cant hear funs, but in moment notebook enters  sleep it is really noisy. What can i do to change this behaviour so i can use sleep mode? Thanks for your time and i wish you to have a nice day.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@Vl4t0m1c0 

Sorry, but I've run into similar problems with my main laptop -- as the so-called sleep mode still keeps the PC on to some degree and that causes serious battery drain.

I was told that disabling FastStartup (the new hybrid sleep option) would fix that, but on my PC at least, it made no difference.  That is something you could try:

Win10 has enabled a new hibernation process known as Fast Startup -- which is enabled BY DEFAULT.

This is different from Fast Boot, which is a BIOS/UEFI option.

Fast Startup is supposed to dramatically speed up the booting process, but in some PCs, it actually slows it down or causes it to hang. It's also a new form of hibernation known as hybrid sleep -- and this causes battery drain to maintain the state of the PC while turned off.

Disabling Fast Startup might fix the booting problem.

There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win10: (1) through the Control Panel, and (2) through an elevated command prompt.

Control Panel - Open Control Panel --> Power Options.
Select "Choose what the power buttons do"
Select "Change settings that are currently unavailable"
At the bottom of the Window, under Shutdown settings, uncheck the box regarding fast startup

Elevated command prompt - run the following command:
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /V HiberbootEnabled /T REG_dWORD /D 0 /F

In both cases, reboot Windows.

NOW, FastStartup is disabled.

See if that helps.

In my case, I remove the battery when the laptop needs to be off for more than a couple of days.  Inconvenient, to be sure, but it stops it from dying.