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Cannot trace down why multiple PCs are waking
Was running W7 Pro and 8.1 on another. Upgraded to 10 last week. Every since then both totally different machines (diff prev OS, diff MB, etc) wake up in the middle of the night. Is there some way to trace down what is doing it?
Looked at this so far:
powercfg /lastwake shows 0
powercfg /waketimers "There are no active wake timers in the system"
Neither the App or System Event log shows anything between when it was put to sleep and when, what, or why it woke
I checked every single windows scheduled tasks including the long list of Windows and none show started
Wake timers in power are disabled
Mouse is setup to allow wake and Network only allow wake with magic packet which I use
Hibernation is disabled
Updated graphics drivers to latest W10 supported
So what happens is I put my machine (not laptop) to sleep from start menu-shutdown-sleep like I have always done to keep my stuff open. The next morning when I get up I check and the machine has turned on and my disk activity light is lit up solid, like old XP defrag would do. Not sure if its my SSD activity or my secondary HDD. When this happens both my monitors are black and I cannot do anything. Mouse, keyboard etc does nothing to wake video, yet its on and churning away. No idea what time it does this.
The only way to stop it is hard boot which could be why there is nothing in the event log.
Anyone have another idea? Is there some kind of event I can have fire off on power up or something to write a log as to whats happening since there appears to be nothing anywhere?? At least no where I know where to look. Like I said, doing this on both machines I have. Both are totally different.
thx
Carito