hibernate you ***** hibernate!

Neverwhere · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:31

PC will not hibernate!, bios is set correctly, WOL is dissabled, yet when I put it into hibernate mode, it goes off, i leave the room, then at some random point within the next ten minutes, it boots up again... bloody thing.

any ideas? am on win 7 if that helps...

Didaco · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:33

take the power out that should stop it from booting up
if it doesent then id be afraid

Neverwhere · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:36

Didaco said:
take the power out that should stop it from booting up
if it doesent then id be afraid

to hibernate the power needs to be maintained to the ram doesnt it??

admitedly if it did boot without the power then the cure would be a priest.

Didaco · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:37

standby requires power and decreases power usage but hibernate allows you to power out completely

RJC · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:39

Hibernate saves data to the hard disc so power can be removed. Sleep mode is stored in ram which requires power.

skeediddley · 5 Dec 2009 at 23:47

Look in the NIC properties. Even though you may have disabled wol in bios windows may still have the "allow this device to wake the computer" selected. Also the option underneath this (something like only allow workstations to wake this computer) will stop any old network traffic waking your machine, and limits it specifically to a magic packet being sent.

Hope this helps!

sturmtruppe · 6 Dec 2009 at 09:43

try putting it in sleep mode instead and see if the same problem occurs.

deadite66 · 6 Dec 2009 at 11:00

use 'powercfg -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed' to see what devices can wake the system.

next time the pc wakes up run 'powercfg -lastwake'