Computer keeps coming out of sleep

Amp34 · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:06

I rarely turn my computer off and just put it to sleep overnight, however the last few days it seems to be waking up on its own during the night. Last night at least 4 times...

Obviously I checked the timing of remote updates and AV scans and they are still the times I left them (around noon) so I'm a bit amis as to what is going on. Is it likely to be anything dodgy?

So far I took the batteries out of my wireless mouse to check it it was interference from that (moving the mouse wakes it up) and it still woke up. I'm tempted to check if network wake is turned on as well. Oddly it seems to be getting worse and after about 8am it doesn't turn on by itself again so it appears to be at least partially time dependant...

Amp34 · 21 Sep 2011 at 13:23

scottmuir424 said:
intelligent pets theses days checking e*** etc lol prob be something simple are any of the bios settings active such as LAN wakeup etc

haha

and that is my next plan yes.

PaulM said:
Try running "powercfg -lastwake" when it next wakes itself up.

I take it that tells me why it woke? I'll give that a try tonight

Amp34 · 21 Sep 2011 at 16:04

I don't particularly want to disallow USB devices to wake because that's how I wake it up but if nothing else fixes it I may have to.

Amp34 · 22 Sep 2011 at 09:22

Well it woke again last night and it is a USB device. I took the batteries out of the mouse and there was no more waking so it may be that (think the batteries are running low). I did do that the other night as well though and it continued waking so I'll try again tonight. Think I'll get some new batteries as well...

Thanks guys.