SF314-42 doesn't wake up from sleep mode, Windows restarts instead, please help!

egydiocoelho

Does the same problem occur when updating windows to version 20h2?

Tarik02

egydiocoelho said:

Does the same problem occur when updating windows to version 20h2?

Yes, it does.

Tarik02

I've noticed some strange thing. When I put my laptop to sleep, sometimes it falls asleep normally and then when I wake it up, I see only cursor (I can move it) on black screen. I can put it to sleep and wake it up, but screen will continue being black after waking up.

kirmgrauza

Try installing this BIOS. It says it was updated in September. Version is 1.07.A.A

https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_1.07_A_A.zip?acerid=637359307201081025&Step1=ULTRA-THIN&Step2=SWIFT&Step3=SF314-42&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_26

egydiocoelho

Have you tried to downgrade the bios?

kirmgrauza

egydiocoelho said:

Have you tried to downgrade the bios?

Just tried it. Acer provided BIOS flash tool doesn't allow to downgrade.

JaimeDLH

kirmgrauza said:

Try installing this BIOS. It says it was updated in September. Version is 1.07.A.A

https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_1.07_A_A.zip?acerid=637359307201081025&Step1=ULTRA-THIN&Step2=SWIFT&Step3=SF314-42&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_26

I installed it days ago, it makes no difference... :-(

kirmgrauza

JaimeDLH said:

kirmgrauza said:

Try installing this BIOS. It says it was updated in September. Version is 1.07.A.A

https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_1.07_A_A.zip?acerid=637359307201081025&Step1=ULTRA-THIN&Step2=SWIFT&Step3=SF314-42&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_26

I installed it days ago, it makes no difference... :-(

Have you tried updating all of your components software, via Acer Care Center?

JaimeDLH

kirmgrauza said:

JaimeDLH said:

kirmgrauza said:

Try installing this BIOS. It says it was updated in September. Version is 1.07.A.A

https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_1.07_A_A.zip?acerid=637359307201081025&Step1=ULTRA-THIN&Step2=SWIFT&Step3=SF314-42&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_26

I installed it days ago, it makes no difference... :-(

Have you tried updating all of your components software, via Acer Care Center?

Yes. Everything is up to date, both in the Care Center and Windows Update. I'm on Windows 20H2 too.

egydiocoelho

Can you check the error that appears in the windows event viewer?

JaimeDLH

egydiocoelho said:

Can you check the error that appears in the windows event viewer?

It's the same one other users have found. Here are the details of the event from Event viewer:

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}

EventID 41

Version 8

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000400000000002

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2020-10-16T14:50:20.8507457Z

EventRecordID 905

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8

Channel System

Computer SWIFT3-JHM

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18

- EventData

BugcheckCode 234
BugcheckParameter1 0xffff9a878c6bd040
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress 0
PowerButtonTimestamp 132473333765669049
BootAppStatus 0
Checkpoint 0
ConnectedStandbyInProgress true
SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 0
CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0
BugcheckInfoFromEFI false
CheckpointStatus 0
CsEntryScenarioInstanceIdV2 0
LongPowerButtonPressDetected false

pcamantea

can we stop the guessing game and get a proper investigation by acer's tech team? we clearly tried every different update combination and everyone still has the problem, except for one person that claims to have solved it, but it was clearly not as simple as updating software, as we all tried that already.

JaimeDLH

pcamantea said:

can we stop the guessing game and get a proper investigation by acer's tech team? we clearly tried every different update combination and everyone still has the problem, except for one person that claims to have solved it, but it was clearly not as simple as updating software, as we all tried that already.

I did a technical support request here on the web site, I chatted with a tech representative and a support ticket was raised. I don't think that achieved a lot, but at least I got tech support to log the problem. In the ticket I provided this thread as further information. If more people with the problem do the same, perhaps the tech staff will take notice sooner.

pcamantea

JaimeDLH said:

pcamantea said:

can we stop the guessing game and get a proper investigation by acer's tech team? we clearly tried every different update combination and everyone still has the problem, except for one person that claims to have solved it, but it was clearly not as simple as updating software, as we all tried that already.

I did a technical support request here on the web site, I chatted with a tech representative and a support ticket was raised. I don't think that achieved a lot, but at least I got tech support to log the problem. In the ticket I provided this thread as further information. If more people with the problem do the same, perhaps the tech staff will take notice sooner.

absolutely, I think everyone with the issue should post and complain here and also in official support channels, what I think is just a waste of time is 'official forum support people' suggesting to update the BIOS or update the drivers given that many people already said they have tried that, and we all already know that does NOT solve the problem.

yech

Happy to found this thread, I was thinking that some hardware issues going on but hybernation makes sense to me now as it started after I switched to windows 10 pro and installed multipass/wsl/docker that uses hybernation. Did you guys solved it?

kirmgrauza

Nobody solved it. Except me. I've updated all of the components and one of them was important to fix the issue. I'm the chosen one, who has this laptop working at it's fullest. 🙄🙄🙄

Only workaround for this issue, is to disable both VirtualMachine features in BIOS. 🙂

JaimeDLH

kirmgrauza said:

Nobody solved it. Except me. I've updated all of the components and one of them was important to fix the issue. I'm the chosen one, who has this laptop working at it's fullest. 🙄🙄🙄

Only workaround for this issue, is to disable both VirtualMachine features in BIOS. 🙂

Not really a workaround if you actually need these features for your work. The only "real" workaround, for the time being, is to disable the sleep feature until a fix is found. I have my laptop configured to hibernate, instead of sleeping, on lid close, power button, etc.

I'm under the impression that even though @kirmgrauza isn't currently affected by this issue, he is not really under the same circumstances. The problem appears to be firmly linked to the use of Hyper-V, specifically, more so than simply having the virtualization features enabled in BIOS. When you have Hyper-V activated, Windows itself runs on top of the hypervisor. Not so when you use type 2 hypervisor technologies, such as VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation. I think therein might be the distinguishing characteristic of this issue, and it's not clear to me if this is a bug in Windows, Hyper-V or in the BIOS of certain AMD CPUs.

JaimeDLH

Also: New drivers have been published on the Support page today! Let's see if any of them helps.

kirmgrauza

@JaimeDLH , how I could test if Hyper-V working on my computer?

JaimeDLH

kirmgrauza said:

@JaimeDLH , how I could test if Hyper-V working on my computer?

You can check if the Hyper-V Host process is running as a service (Win + R, type "services.msc" (ENTER), and check for a service called "Hyper-V Host Compute Service" or its equivalent if you have Windows in a language different than english. If it is running, you are on top of Hyper-V. Here it is on my machine:


On top of that, you can check in the task manager for a virtual process called vmmem.exe. It is listed as a background process:


This process summarizes the memory use for all of your running Hyper-V virtual machines, other than Windows itself.