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Lenovo Thinkpad cannot sleep or hibernate correctly - hangs during shutdown

  1. Lenovo Thinkpad cannot sleep or hibernate correctly - hangs during shutdown, Locate what you have: step 1, image 1 of 2 Lenovo Thinkpad cannot sleep or hibernate correctly - hangs during shutdown, Locate what you have: step 1, image 2 of 2
    • After your windows upgrade , open the Device Manager, navigate to "System devices" to find the running version of the Intel Management Engine on your machine.

    • Open the properties and read the version. See red circle.

  2. Lenovo Thinkpad cannot sleep or hibernate correctly - hangs during shutdown, See what you need, and get it: step 2, image 1 of 1
    • Locate the version supported for BOTH Win 8.1 and Win 10, by the Vendor (At writing it is Lenovo) https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/intel/...

    • Locate the Intel Management Engine version. In my example the Danish page for S540. http://pcsupport.lenovo.com/dk/da/downlo...

    • Download the driver pack, and read the README page. Then install according to the README. It may tell you you are installing an earlier version - and that is what we want here.

    • Reboot the PC and see the driver version has changed to the one you downloaded.

Conclusion

You should now continuously see successful sleep or hibernation.

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