Huh. Before updating... I was under the impression 1.3.0 was The Update Of Doom, not prior versions. Your BIOS might still have the S3 option available, and f

Huh. Before updating... I was under the impression 1.3.0 was The Update Of Doom, not prior versions. Your BIOS might still have the S3 option available, and furthermore, based on the anecdata I found about downgrade being blocked starting at 1.4.0, you might be able to go to even lower BIOS versions too if you need to. Even if the option does not appear to be available, it might be an interesting idea to ask around wherever this is being discussed, before updating, in case there's any interesting insight to be had there. In any case I'd definitely have a thorough look around the current BIOS version first. If onsite IT has their heads screwed on correctly :) it shouldn't be too difficult to demonstrate the benefits of a) checking the BIOS (if you don't have read-only access) and b) enabling the option if it's available (if you don't have read-write access).