Flakey Computer keeps turning on.

I have a Sony Vaio laptop running windows 8.1. Installed that way and never reloaded.
We once had real good luck with closing the lid and having the laptop sleep and then opening the lid and having it wake.
But someone along the line it started waking on it's own. So we found the wake on mouse setting wrong and fixed that
and we were pretty good for a while.
Now in the past weeks, it's turning on again. We've set the laptop to no wake on opening the lid and not sleeping when
closing the lid. The theory being maybe the lid sensor is defective? What the hey. So we figured hitting the power
button or a sleep icon I put on the desktop was not that hard to do.

But for the life of us (wife and I) we can't figure out what is making it turn on. Maybe about 1/2 hour or so?

Anyone got any ideas. I'm out of them.

"Big Al" wrote in message
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I have a Sony Vaio laptop running windows 8.1. Installed that way and
never reloaded.
We once had real good luck with closing the lid and having the laptop
sleep and then opening the lid and having it wake.
But someone along the line it started waking on it's own. So we found the
wake on mouse setting wrong and fixed that and we were pretty good for a
while.
Now in the past weeks, it's turning on again. We've set the laptop to no
wake on opening the lid and not sleeping when closing the lid. The
theory being maybe the lid sensor is defective? What the hey. So we
figured hitting the power button or a sleep icon I put on the desktop was
not that hard to do.

But for the life of us (wife and I) we can't figure out what is making it
turn on. Maybe about 1/2 hour or so?

Anyone got any ideas. I'm out of them.

Wake on LAN setting in BIOS? Magic Packet wake, or Wake on LAN Power Off, in
your NIC properties?

A couple of other places to check :-)
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SC Tom

Stormin' Norman wrote on 7/31/2015 7:13 PM:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:02:50 -0400, Big Al wrote:

I have a Sony Vaio laptop running windows 8.1. Installed that way and never reloaded.
We once had real good luck with closing the lid and having the laptop sleep and then opening the lid and having it wake.
But someone along the line it started waking on it's own. So we found the wake on mouse setting wrong and fixed that
and we were pretty good for a while.
Now in the past weeks, it's turning on again. We've set the laptop to no wake on opening the lid and not sleeping when
closing the lid. The theory being maybe the lid sensor is defective? What the hey. So we figured hitting the power
button or a sleep icon I put on the desktop was not that hard to do.

But for the life of us (wife and I) we can't figure out what is making it turn on. Maybe about 1/2 hour or so?

Anyone got any ideas. I'm out of them.

Have you done a full restart of the machine recently (not a shutdown). A restart does a fresh load of the
W8.1 OS whereas a shutdown does not, if memory serves me correctly.

Also, have you recently installed any software on the machine?

No NEW software. Possible an update like AVG or such.
I'll look at the nic and bios later.

Big Al wrote:

it's turning on again.
Anyone got any ideas. I'm out of them.

Does running "powercfg lastwake" in a CMD window show anything helpful?

Andy Burns wrote on 8/1/2015 1:13 AM:
Big Al wrote:

it's turning on again.
Anyone got any ideas. I'm out of them.

Does running "powercfg lastwake" in a CMD window show anything helpful?


Thanks, It does.
Wake Source [0]
Type: Wake Timer
Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\TeamViewer_Service.exe (TeamViewer)
Owner Supplied Reason: generic

So since we don't use Team Viewer any longer, I've killed it. Here's hoping. seems to wake every 30 minutes, so the
timer is set.....tick....tick............