Why does my wife's Win 10 system "spontaneously" wake up?


  1. Posts : 1,750
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    Why does my wife's Win 10 system "spontaneously" wake up?


    I did a clean install upgrade on my wife's system about two months ago. Since then it "spontaneously" starts up after it has been sleeping or hibernating. Sometimes it shuts down again spontaneously after only a few seconds or after a few minutes.

    It showed the same behavior under Windows 7, but I assumed I wiped out whatever was causing that behavior with the clean install.

    I have checked the details of the Power Option, and Wake Up Timers are set to Disable. What else should I be looking at?
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  2. Posts : 9
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    My windows 10 does the same thing. I have been told that it could be a. vibration. b. BIOS c dodgy on/off switch. none of which I can do anything about.
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    TimothyWF said:
    My windows 10 does the same thing. I have been told that it could be a. vibration. b. BIOS c dodgy on/off switch. none of which I can do anything about.
    On my wife's system, it happens even if the system is HIBERNATEing.

    Not sure about the BIOS. Her system used to be mine, before I upgraded. I don't remember this behavior when I used this system.
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  4. Posts : 2,539
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit
       #4

    Under both the Ethernet & wifi properties there's a setting to wake the device, you can deselect it or choose to only wake on magic packet.
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  5. Posts : 3
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       #5

    It's probably having nightmares. It was dreaming about Windows 10.
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  6. Posts : 1,750
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    Doctor9fan said:
    Under both the Ethernet & wifi properties there's a setting to wake the device, you can deselect it or choose to only wake on magic packet.
    Doctor9fan,

    Thanks. I made the change 3 days ago and there was only 1 unexpected wakeup since. So I figure that you deserve a Thumbs Up for this help. I would not have figured this out in a thousand years.

    x509

    PS: Any other possibilities? Not that I'm complaining.
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  7. Posts : 2,539
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    x509 said:
    Doctor9fan,

    Thanks. I made the change 3 days ago and there was only 1 unexpected wakeup since. So I figure that you deserve a Thumbs Up for this help. I would not have figured this out in a thousand years.

    x509

    PS: Any other possibilities? Not that I'm complaining.
    There's something I've just found recently myself, although like you say the wake on magic packet has fixed the majority of auto waking problems there's still the odd time it does (same here) so looked under the advanced power settings for the power configuration I had set & there's something under there for either USB or Ethernet/internet (not near my PC so am trying to remember but if wrong will check tonight) there I found another auto wake which was enabled, I disabled it & had no further night-time waking.
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  8. Posts : 1,750
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    Doctor9fan said:
    There's something I've just found recently myself, although like you say the wake on magic packet has fixed the majority of auto waking problems there's still the odd time it does (same here) so looked under the advanced power settings for the power configuration I had set & there's something under there for either USB or Ethernet/internet (not near my PC so am trying to remember but if wrong will check tonight) there I found another auto wake which was enabled, I disabled it & had no further night-time waking.
    Much appreciated.
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  9. Posts : 2,539
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit
       #9

    OK x509, I checked my pc & under power options>edit plan settings (of your current power plan)>change advanced power settings> under sleep>allow wake timers I set 'important wake timers only'. This stopped the mid-night wake ups completely.
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