Strange PC behaviour?

Space Monkey · 21 Apr 2013 at 22:15

Hi guys,

My laptop is in sleep mode and has been for about an hour or so now but it just came out of sleep, showed the lock screen (win 8), the network port activity lights were flashing and then it just went back to sleep again, all within about a minute? What could be causing this, should I be worried? hacked?

Thanks for any info you could give

theheyes · 21 Apr 2013 at 22:27

You could check the event viewer to see if anything went on during that window. If you have no other suspicious signs of activity, I think you can be reasonably sure it's nothing untoward.

Space Monkey · 21 Apr 2013 at 22:46

theheyes said:
You could check the event viewer to see if anything went on during that window. If you have no other suspicious signs of activity, I think you can be reasonably sure it's nothing untoward.

Thanks for the info.

I've had a root around the event viewer, but not really sure what I'm looking at tbh, though there are a lot of power entries, though they say about sleep and wake, nothing more?

The other thing, when I came to take my PC out of sleep again it was fully off, so I'm assuming it could be the power management switching it off, but I've never seen that happen before?

[Edit] Power management only has sleep options, no full shut off options? Strange, or am I missing something?

theheyes · 21 Apr 2013 at 23:02

You know funnily enough that happened to me earlier today (the wake up only to find it was off thing)

I just put it down to something crashing, which is unusual but not completely unheard of.

I'd mark it down as 'watch this space' as it seems a bit of a coincidence...