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I have a Dell 7000 series laptop running Windows 8 with an Intel core i7 processor.
I often have to hold the power button to force it to turn off and then turn it back on again in order to wake it from sleep/hibernation, but if I turn off the Intel Rapid start Technology it wakes up pretty smoothly.
I had "solved" the problem by turning the rapid start off, but occasionally the rapid start gets turned on again after system updates.
Am I missing some advantage to Intel's Rapid Start Technology, should I have just adjusted some setting or is it just fairly pointless if the default wake is "fast enough"?
Note, I have read:
http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/rapid_start_technology_user_guide.pdf
But, instructions there appear to be for Windows 7.