So, not sure if this is a Framework or Windows thing, but maybe one of you can help me.
I have my framework setup to hibernate immediately if I close the lid on battery, and for a while it was working great. But recently, it has been randomly resuming and booting back into Windows while it's closed, causing it to get warm and drain the battery a fair bit while it's in my back.
Checking the Eventviewer, it resumes literally instantly. Like, the events for entering and exiting hibernation are both accounted to the same timeframe, with a few events in between.
I have only one USB Device connected, which is the dongle of my mouse, and I have already set that to not wake up the device through device manager.
All logs seem to not show any reason for why it exited hibernation, and Wake Timers are turned off.
Do any of you have any clues to why this might be happening?
Coincidentally while trying to figure this out, I found that there are a lot of logs with no information (Apart from it being related to the intel wifi card) available attested to netwtw12, sometimes these are also sent while the system is supposed to be in hibernation. Could this be a cause, and if so how should I investigate further?
I daily drive my FW with an eGPU. And to be quite honest, it's even saved me money in comparison to getting an older mid-range laptop and a desktop upgrade.
However, the eGPU comes with it's fair share of downsides. First of all, you'll want to plug the hub and eGPU into two separate ports to not take bandwidth from the GPU (on the intel laptops, you'll have to use one port on each side, not on the same), and it is also less stable than alternatives.
Sometimes a simple knock against the cable will immediately disconnect the GPU causing half your programs to crash, so you'll want to put it somewhere where it doesn't move.
Also, drivers can be a bitch. I know nvidia can cause issues if you have both an integrated and external nvidia gpu, not sure about AMD.
Things like screen sharing or streaming will also significantly cut into your GPU performance as it will take further bandwidth from your GPU that is already hungering for more, so you'll want to avoid applications what want to capture your monitor video as much as possible. Although in practice, you won't notice this very much unless you are actually pushing gpu limits without the capture.