Help! Been experiencing occasional "sleep wake failures" that I can't seem to reproduce

Help! Been experiencing occasional "sleep wake failures" that I can't seem to reproduce

The title is basically the gist of the problem. So for background, I installed macOS on my Asus laptop about 5 times throughout the course of the year from June 2021-2022. The first two installs were both running big sur 11.5. There weren't any big problems then except for worse battery life and buggy touchpad (Asus problem tho). At one point in November, i accidentally corrupted the macOS partition so I uninstalled it for good and went back to Windows 11. Just last month i decided to give macOS another shot and installed Monterey 12.3, and that is when occasional sleep wake failures started popping out. At first I thought it was a Monterey issue, so i rolled back to Catalina 10.15.7. But that too was suffering from the failure. And at this point, i still thought it was a software issue because i remembered this never happening in big sur. And the fact that i was dual booting with windows. Consequently, I did a clean install of just macos big sur ver 11.5.2, but alas, the problem still persists.

And that is why now i think it's either likely a 1) hardware issue or 2) EFI or BIOS settings issue.

The former I can't explain how that could be, but I noticed the BIOS system clock setting back by 8-13 hours when I boot to macOS. Sometimes it even goes as far back as I would assume is the manufacturing date of this machine, i.e., 2019 (still not sure though because this model was supposed to be from 2018)... so like a reset in system time? This could be CMOS battery issue, but then all else but system date and time work as intended. The BIOS settings except for system clock also don't reset to defaults or change.

For the latter, I did everything I know from enabling disablertcchecksum to removing ssdt hpet to remaking ssdt-hpet, awac, and EC to modifying bios settings to switching between older and newer OC versions (from previous installes and newly created ones), but nothing seem to work. I also tried disabling disksleep, proximitywake, and hibernatemode on terminal and I cant disable the serial port on bios as my device literally has none.

The sleep wake failure specifically spits out a *0xffffffff 0x0000001f* error code during reboot. This happens when I try to put the laptop to sleep, but instead of sleeping as indicated by the LED indicator powering off, it will stay on and I cant really do anything with the laptop at all, but hard reset. The *worst* part is I can't seem to reproduce it! This happens rather sparsely, like once-thrice a day, and there is no discernible pattern as to what could trigger it, like it just happens out of the blue! Apart from that, the laptop sleeps as normal most of the time whether it's by closing the lid or pressing cmd(win)+opt(alt)+power. This is really annoying because you won't know when it's gonna happen. Note that my macos cant lid wake on this machine for some reason but then so was in the previous installs where this never happened at all.

This had never happened before which is extra weird!

Asus Zenbook UX333

BIG SUR 11.5.2 OC 0.7.2 REL

This error pops up after reboot

i5-8265u (with CPUFriend kext for proper PM)

UHD 620

8gb DDR3 RAM

WDC SN520 SSD (with nvmefix kext for proper SSD PM)

USB ports mapped with USB map tool

Help is much appreciated 😊

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