Laptop Wakes Up On Its Own
May 31, 2009Every night I put my laptop to sleep but lately the laptop wakes up on it's own in the middle of the night every night. Anyone knows what might cause this phenomena ?
View 1 RepliesEvery night I put my laptop to sleep but lately the laptop wakes up on it's own in the middle of the night every night. Anyone knows what might cause this phenomena ?
View 1 RepliesMy laptop wakes up for no reason after I put it to sleep. I unplugged my USB things and it still doesn't solve. When I do powercfg -lastwake it gives me this:
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button
This does not have to do with an outdated driver(Most likely) It happened when I decided to decrease the brightness.
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Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0
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C:>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count � 0
C:>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
gives no output.
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System Specs:
Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 (problem also existed prior to service pack)
ASUS M3N78-VM motherboard.
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor 2.80GHz
8 GB Ram
Samsung SSD 830 Series 64GB SSD drive (boot drive)
2 SATA HDDs mirrored with onboard NVIDIA RAID
AMD Radeon HD 6950 Video Card (problem existed before this was added)
Things I've tried:
BIOS set to S3 Only (previously set to auto)All "Power On By" options in the BIOS set to Disabled Unplugged all USB devices (including KB/Mouse) and Network Cable Unchecked "Allow this device to wake the computer" on Network Interface
powercfg -lastwake reports:
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0
All devices in Device Manager appear to have the correct device drivers. No yellow exclamations.
I've had this problem every since I built my new rig - the thing either won't go to sleep, or will wake back up if I put it to sleep manually. It doesn't do it all the time, but it happens enough to be an annoyance.
Here's what powercfg says after it wakes up:
Code: C:UsersCharles>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
[Code].....
This has been an ongoing issue with my computer only waking from sleep half the time. The other half I need to actually power cycle my machine in order for it to wake. I know when it is going to wake properly because I hear the DAC on my Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card click on and if it's not going to work obviously I don't hear the click.I have tried the following:
- Complete system rebuild with new hard drives, reinstall of windows
- All drivers updated and bios updated (I have been through a fair few driver updates because this has been an issue for over a year)
- New Memory installed
- Played with as many power settings in the bios as possible
I am really starting to think it is a hardware issue with either my motherboard or video card but don't have a spare of each of these and don't want to buy new stuff just to test it.
Here are my Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V Pro
CPU: Intel i7 2600
Video Card: Gigabyte 6950 (in eyefinity with 3 Monitors)
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX
HDD: 2 x 240GB Sandisk Extreme SSD (Raid0)
Memory: Kingston Hyper X 4x4GB (16GB Total)
PSU: Seasonic X Series 750w
Monitors: Samsung MD230x3 (3x23") 2 connected via DVI and 1 via DisplayPort
As mentioned the hard drives and memory were replaced so it can't be either of those. Also it can't be any settings because it does wake via my keyboard/mouse half the time. It is also hard to troubleshoot as it may work 3 times ok and even wake form sleep overnight but then I could leave it for 30 mins come back and it won't wake that time, there is no pattern that I can make out, not sure what else I can do to troubleshoot this but it is really annoying as my computer gets a lot of use and would rather put it to sleep than continually turn it off and on.