SXPS13 Sleep Issues...

I'm going to keep this short because I've spent hours upon hours on this problem and it's driving me up the wall.

Running Windows 7 Home Premium
Nvidia 9400G graphics
4GB ram
256GB Samsung SSD

In essence, sleep will not work. It acts like it's going to sleep but appears to crash before it gets there as when I attempt to wake it up it brings me to the "Windows Recovery" screen where it claims to have not shut down properly.

I have tried all of the official Dell drivers, formatting (where it still happens with the generic Windows driver + the display driver as this is required for sleep to function at all), as well as the most recent chipset and video drivers available from Nvidia.

Hibernate and hybrid sleep work fine, and as of now I'm just going to turn on hybrid sleep to "fix" the issue.

If anyone could provide some insight into this I would be overjoyed. Is there any chance it could be a hardware problem? I did notice that the transfer rate (according to HDTune) on the SSD is only in the 40's/50's which is slower than my WD500GB mechanical drive. Normal? Separate issue?

Thanks in advance.

 

*Bump + sigh*