Sporadic wake-up from Hibernation

[jm7]

I always place my PCs in hibernation mode but lately one of my PCs with XP
Pro SP2 when switched on from hibernation will sit there for quite some time
with a blinking cursor and then the screen with "resuming windows" appears.
If I am in a hurry I will sometimes just press the power button to switch
off and then when I press it again it will quickly resume from hibernate.
SO I now have to press the power button three times (ON-OFF-ON) to get a
quick wake up from hibernation.

There is obviously some new software running in the background causing this.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[Daniel Crichton]

jm7 wrote on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:00:18 +1000:

> I always place my PCs in hibernation mode but lately one of my PCs with XP
> Pro SP2 when switched on from hibernation will sit there for quite some
> time with a blinking cursor and then the screen with "resuming windows"
> appears. If I am in a hurry I will sometimes just press the power button
> to switch off and then when I press it again it will quickly resume from
> hibernate. SO I now have to press the power button three times (ON-OFF-ON)
> to get a quick wake up from hibernation.
>
> There is obviously some new software running in the background causing
> this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>

Do you have Wake on LAN enabled in the BIOS? If so, it could be that
continuous network activity to this PC is causing it to immediately resume.

Dan