Final Update
- I have entirely updated the system, and the sleep function is working perfectly fine - my shortcut for it also has not caused any problems. Therefore, it must have been hibernate that caused everything to break in the past.
- In conclusion, then, I guess hibernate is a no-go, at least for me, on my hardware.
Does anyone know how to take the hibernate function off of the menus on the OS, so that I don’t use it by accident and mess everything up again?