[Wireless Keyboard & Mouse] PC Wakes up from Sleep shortly after.

Thanahr · 12 Jan 2019

Good evening TenForums,

I currently use a wireless mouse and keyboard, with the usb stick in the rear of the computer. Due to the positioning of my PC, it's annoying to turn on and off, so I just put my PC to sleep.
However, within maybe an hour (usually 30 minutes), my computer wakes itself up. I've used EventViewer and the culprit (Power-Troubleshooter) is "USB Root Hub", of which (according to device manager) I have 2 of. Checking all the events of both, shows nothing that relates to the Sleep function.
I was wondering what could be the cause of this. Is is that W10 doesn't like wireless peripherals waking up the computer, or that because that's what I want it to do, it's doing it prematurely/of its own accord? Or anything else for that matter, it's got me well and truly stumped.

I appreciate any advice/support given and give you my thanks in advance,

Thanahr

Ztruker · 12 Jan 2019

Probably your wireless mouse or keyboard.

Due to the positioning of my PC, it's annoying to turn on and off, so I just put my PC to sleep.

Why? Click Start, Power icon, shutdown. If that's to much you can place a shortcut on your Desktop that you can double click on to shutdown the computer. All it needs is shutdown /s /f /t 0

Berton · 12 Jan 2019

My take on the issue may be the physical inconvenience of pressing the On|Off switch on the computer case. Windows does turn off the computer but there's still power to the motherboard and the physical switch mostly turns it off but the surest way is to get a full shutdown like in needing to work inside the case is to pull the power cord out or turn off at the surge protector.

PolarNettles · 13 Jan 2019

I had a wireless mouse that would sporadically wake up my system. It may have just been overly sensitive and responding to small vibrations. I ended up just turning off the mouse whenever I put the system to sleep.

If you turn off your wireless keyboard and/or mouse does your system still wake up on its own?

Thanahr · 13 Jan 2019

Ztruker said:

Why? Click Start, Power icon, shutdown. If that's to much you can place a shortcut on your Desktop that you can double click on to shutdown the computer. All it needs is shutdown /s /f /t 0

Sure, I can turn it off. However, to turn it on, (Pressing that button on the front, ya know) I'm crawling under my desk and tilting my PC back. It's tucked away.

I will however try changing which device, mouse or keyboard, is turned on and has permission to wake the computer up.

Thanahr · 13 Jan 2019

PolarNettles said:

I had a wireless mouse that would sporadically wake up my system. It may have just been overly sensitive and responding to small vibrations. I ended up just turning off the mouse whenever I put the system to sleep.

If you turn off your wireless keyboard and/or mouse does your system still wake up on its own?

I'll try that out today and get back to you, thanks for the non-sarcastic reply.
Edit: Disallowed my mouse from being able to wake my PC up. Seems to have done the trick. Sometimees (when in use), I'll see my cursor wiggle around a bit, I figure that was happening whilst it was in Sleep mode, and so it thought I wanted it to wake up.

Thanahr · 13 Jan 2019

Update: Still waking up randomly. Any other advice would be much appreciated

Ztruker · 13 Jan 2019

Next time, enter powercfg /lastwake from a Command Prompt to see what caused the wakeup.