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Sometimes my PC wakes up (from sleep mode) without any visible reason. Wake-on-LAN is turned off. Vista 64 bit SP2
Any ideas?
skevar7
Posted 2009-09-14T06:34:05.833
Reputation: 925
computer wakes up without any reason
Answers
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It was a problem with the mouse. Sometimes optical mice generate fake "move" events, even though mouse doesn't move actually. Disabling waking up by mouse solved this problem.
skevar7
Posted 2009-09-14T06:34:05.833
Reputation: 925
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In an elevated command prompt, run the command "powercfg -energy". It will run for a minute and produce a report of the power configuration of your computer, including all events that can bring it out of sleep mode.
Also in an elevated command prompt, run "powercfg -lastwake". It should tell you which event or device brought it out of sleep mode the last time.
Snark
Posted 2009-09-14T06:34:05.833
Reputation: 30 147
"powercfg -energy" - says Invalid Parameters :-/ "powercfg -lastwake" - says "Wake Source Count - 0". Something completely meaningless. – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T06:49:52.127
Oups, "-energy" is Windows 7 only. But the other one "-lastwake" is supported in Vista. – Snark – 2009-09-14T06:59:23.993
It doesn't help anyway. See above. Any ideas why it shows such strange message? – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T07:29:39.850
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- Click Start, right click Computer and choose Properties.
- Click Device Manager.
- Navigate to your network adapter, right click it and choose Properties.
- Choose Power Management tab.
- Please uncheck “Allow this device to wake the computer”
- Restart the computer and test this issue again.
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(check for other devices too who had that option enabled)
What "this" device? :-/ – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T06:55:54.580
the network adapter ... – None – 2009-09-14T06:58:06.570
Already unchecked :-/ – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T07:02:12.643
Do you have more than one network adapter listed? – ChristianLinnell – 2009-09-14T07:10:41.157
Who marked this down? It's a perfectly valid explanation to this problem, even if it doesn't solve this particular case. +1 – ChristianLinnell – 2009-09-14T07:22:37.337
"Perfectly valid" answer to the question that wasn't asked. – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T07:35:24.500
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Do you have any bluetooth devices paired and active while the machine is asleep? My bluetooth mouse will wake my computer from time to time.
Olly Hodgson
Posted 2009-09-14T06:34:05.833
Reputation: 258
I have a bluetooth mouse. Any additional info on this problem? – skevar7 – 2009-09-14T11:14:49.277
Might want to re-install the driver. – D'Arvit – 2009-09-15T15:13:50.147
I use a Macbook, so not sure about Vista, but if I leave my bluetooth mouse switched on, the slightest movement will try to wake the thing. The problem goes away if I switch the mouse off. – Olly Hodgson – 2009-09-16T12:35:04.637
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I once had two PCs in one room. One was setup (in BIOS) to start on left mouse klick. That PC started completely randomly. After a few days I noticed it was the mouse. Both PCs had wireless mice, and for some reason, both mice were setup for the same channel. So the 2nd PC started, when I clicked the mouse button on my PC.
Maybe its a similar problem with your setup?
Martin
Posted 2009-09-14T06:34:05.833
Reputation: 3 619
The same thing happened to me. I suspect the PSU had something to do with it... – alex – 2009-09-14T06:40:05.613
3give it some warm milk, and sing it a lullaby ;) – Nick Josevski – 2009-09-14T06:47:09.560