Computer won't stay asleep

Mr Jack

Mr Jack

Mr Jack

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I moved house recently and, for reasons, my desktop was sitting idle for about five weeks before I got it set up and running again. Since I set it up again it's refusing to stay asleep. I put it into sleep mode and goes into the low power state but after a few seconds to a few minutes it powers up again with the Windows log-in screen.

I have, thus far, failed to identify the problem. Going to the command line and running 'powercfg -lastwake' doesn't give any information at all regarding the last wake. Disabling wake timers has no effect. Task Scheduler doesn't show anything out of order. USBDeview doesn't reveal any spurious plugging in/out of devices. I've updated the graphics drivers to the latest.

What do I need to try next? How can I find out what is causing the wake if powercfg isn't telling me?
 
Checked the BIOS for wake on events? It's all I can think of to check but I'm not sure BIOS settings will wake a pc from sleep mode
 
ExRayTed said:
Checked the BIOS for wake on events? It's all I can think of to check but I'm not sure BIOS settings will wake a pc from sleep mode
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I couldn't find anything in the BIOS that looked promising. There is a more recent BIOS version I could upgrade to but even Gigabyte recommend not doing that unless necessary.
 
For anyone interested later, I "fixed" it by enabling ERP in the BIOS. I have to wake it using the power button now, which is a little irritating, but better than not sleeping at all.
 
No help but the thought of this made me chuckle...


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Device Manager, Mouse is a good culprit as movement in room can move it enough to make PC wake(leave KB alone), then check NIC/BT/WIFI setting in there for same.


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