win7 keeps turning it self on from sleep mode

unwashed potato! · 28 Aug 2011 at 10:15

this is happening pretty much every other day now. i put computer to sleep when i go to bed, but then when i get up it's on again. i check when i go to bed that it does indeed shut down but at some point something is brining it out of sleep.

it's prob not a virus but i'd like to know if there is any way to find out what it could be waking it up?

i'ts most annoying as i have my emails synced to this machine so if i check from phone i can't get any as they've been downloaded here

MarkA · 28 Aug 2011 at 10:27

I assume that's pop3 then. Change your pop3 settings to make them stay on the server for 30 days or somewhat.

Other than that, check your BIOS for settings do with with sleep/standby. Some machines allow you to power it up just by hitting any random key on your keyboard. Could even be caused by a loose connection somewhere along the line.

Cheese_Sticks · 28 Aug 2011 at 14:50

Go to command prompt and type;

powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

and it will tell you what last woke the pc, on mine it was the wireless mouse so I stopped it from being able to wake the computer in device manager.

numatic.nathan · 28 Aug 2011 at 16:02

I had this a few times but it stopped, think it was my mouse that caused mine

oli356 · 28 Aug 2011 at 16:46

Was my wireless adaptor. Changed the settings in power options and was fine

Netguy · 28 Aug 2011 at 19:33

Had the same problem.. disabled wakeup on lan in the bios

unwashed potato! · 28 Aug 2011 at 21:53

Cheese_Sticks said:
Go to command prompt and type;

powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

and it will tell you what last woke the pc, on mine it was the wireless mouse so I stopped it from being able to wake the computer in device manager.

first post on this forum and it was a winrar! turns out it's my keyboard which may be the R key as that's got issue when pressed it often doesn't do anything.

how can i disable keyboard from waking as it's the mouse that i use any way, plus anyone know what saitek warranties usually ae as i've had this just under 2 years

Cheese_Sticks · 28 Aug 2011 at 23:12

Mammalian said:
first post on this forum and it was a winrar! turns out it's my keyboard which may be the R key as that's got issue when pressed it often doesn't do anything.

how can i disable keyboard from waking as it's the mouse that i use any way, plus anyone know what saitek warranties usually ae as i've had this just under 2 years

Right click on the keyboard in device manager, click properties then there's a power management tab, and untick allow this device to wake the computer.

unwashed potato! · 28 Aug 2011 at 23:25

many thanks, hope that works. gave me a scare today when i returned home to find lights are on in my place thought someone had broke in

firewallblocked · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:02

Cheese_Sticks said:
Go to command prompt and type;

powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

and it will tell you what last woke the pc, on mine it was the wireless mouse so I stopped it from being able to wake the computer in device manager.

That's awesome. Didn't know you could do that. One day I may need to know this.

One of those odd things you get asked by mates as if it's something everyone knows.

richb93 · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:14

I've had this and it's damn annoying. Woke my laptop up while it was in my bag. I'm lucky it didn't toast it :mad:

madindehead · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:26

Sometimes it's Windows updates that do this.

Subliminal Aura · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:33

I used to have this issue and thought that maybe it was keyboard/usb - I disabled usb waking and still the issue remained.

In the end I found that is was rogue scheduled tasks... Google update is a common culprit. I keep my PC in sleep 24/7 so all the apps are precatched and loaded for speed, the only scheduled tasks that wake up the PC are backups and defrag for the mechanical drive. PC sleeps after the tasks complete

madindehead · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:38

Was going to say:

If it's on sleep, go and check your event logs. It should say what is causing it to turn on

Used the event viewer when I didn't have an SSD to discover that Media Center updates were causing the PC to come out of sleep