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PC wakes itself up
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Often when I hibernate my PC, it then takes it upon itself to wake itself up shortly after. How can I find out what is causing this? Thanks |
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"Hc" wrote
| Often when I hibernate my PC, it then takes it upon itself to wake | itself up shortly after. How can I find out what is causing this? | In addition to Ken's advice, it's a good idea to disable the mouse for that functionality and only use the keyboard. Small vibrations can often cuse enough mouse movement to cause a startup. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Hc" wrote | Often when I hibernate my PC, it then takes it upon itself to wake | itself up shortly after. How can I find out what is causing this? | In addition to Ken's advice, it's a good idea to disable the mouse for that functionality and only use the keyboard. Small vibrations can often cuse enough mouse movement to cause a startup. I would do the mouse and the NIC. In Device Manager (right-click Start to find it), there will be an entry for the mouse, and one for the NIC. You do Properties on the particular mouse entry, and there is a Power Management tab. *Untick* the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby". Click OK. On the NIC, there can be two tick boxes. The "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" only applies in the sleep/hibernate state (the NIC LED should go off on the router, at shutdown). If that box is ticked, and the NIC has power while sleeping, then you want to *untick* "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby". Click OK. And you only need to disable keyboard waking, if you own a cat :-) The keyboard can wake the computer too. And mice come in different flavors. My Logitech, the optical sensor is totally disabled in sleep, but the mouse buttons still work. My Logitech, I don't have to untick the box for it. The Microsoft USB mouse on the other hand, the blue LED it uses, it flashes about once a second while sleeping. And it is armed for vibration, and has to be disabled in Device Manager. The LastWake method is good, for reducing your work to a minimum. But while you're in Device Manager, you can also check that your mouse/keyboard/NIC are the way you want them. HTH, Paul |
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On 18-Sep-17 15:41, Paul wrote:
Mayayana wrote: "Hc" wrote | Often when I hibernate my PC, it then takes it upon itself to wake | itself up shortly after. How can I find out what is causing this? | In addition to Ken's advice, it's a good idea to disable the mouse for that functionality and only use the keyboard. Small vibrations can often cuse enough mouse movement to cause a startup. I would do the mouse and the NIC. In Device Manager (right-click Start to find it), there will be an entry for the mouse, and one for the NIC. You do Properties on the particular mouse entry, and there is a Power Management tab. *Untick* the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby". Click OK. On the NIC, there can be two tick boxes. The "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" only applies in the sleep/hibernate state (the NIC LED should go off on the router, at shutdown). If that box is ticked, and the NIC has power while sleeping, then you want to *untick* "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby". Click OK. And you only need to disable keyboard waking, if you own a cat :-) The keyboard can wake the computer too. And mice come in different flavors. My Logitech, the optical sensor is totally disabled in sleep, but the mouse buttons still work. My Logitech, I don't have to untick the box for it. The Microsoft USB mouse on the other hand, the blue LED it uses, it flashes about once a second while sleeping. And it is armed for vibration, and has to be disabled in Device Manager. The LastWake method is good, for reducing your work to a minimum. But while you're in Device Manager, you can also check that your mouse/keyboard/NIC are the way you want them. HTH, Paul Disabling wake up for mouse and NIC seems to have done the trick. The command prompt thing doesn't work, even when I run as administrator. I get the error "invalid parameters" |
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On 19/09/2017 18:35, Hc wrote:
The command prompt thing doesn't work, even when I run as administrator. I get the error "invalid parameters" I think there was a typo, should be: powercfg -lastwake powercfg -devicequery wake_armed -- Brian Gregory (in the UK). To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address. |
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Brian Gregory wrote:
On 19/09/2017 18:35, Hc wrote: The command prompt thing doesn't work, even when I run as administrator. I get the error "invalid parameters" I think there was a typo, should be: powercfg -lastwake powercfg -devicequery wake_armed On a particular OS, you can try powercfg /? as those two symbols are the canonical help request for Windows applications. Linus has "--help" or "-h" and depending on where a Windows program has come from, it might use options like that. But if Microsoft writes it, then expect /? to work. Once you consult the help, you can discover whether the parameters to be passes are delineated by a leading "/" or by "-". By changing how this is done, from one OS to the next, it can lead to a lot of confusion. Using the actual application help, should show you how to use it. On much older Windows, some packages include a .chm help file. Clicking on one of those, can give you various bits of help too. Even "dir" has help, and I'm not afraid to use it. dir /? Paul |
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