I surrendered after searching through the proc mon logs for several days and trying to filter out the unlikely events. I ended up getting a new monitor which stopped the problem. Then my video card...

CMOS reset seems to be working ok, though I wish Windows had a way to save your settings to the cloud between hardware and machines. Over 22 years using PCs, swear I only reset the CMOS once some...

So, my old 670 burnt out in a weird way where it would do basic video but only if nvidia drivers werent installed, if they were installed then the system with that card was a brick. Was using a 550...

Ok, found some problems on my Master Boot Record, formatted, reinstalled. Card still works fine with no drivers. Was able to install the 359.06 without a reboot, however when booting up I get the...

So, first up, was getting crashes with my windows 10 after installing nvidia driver 359.00, mostly crashes that recovered automatically, then started getting Blue Screens. Tried 359.06 and had the...

I could imagine its the hardware, except that it happens at very specific times, and at boot only after certain things happen in Windows. Which means its almost definitely the system and not the...

I actually had to remove some of the standard filters because everything in the log looks quite normal and i'm not seeing anything related to the monitor.

Booting to Safe Mode sounds like a good...

my NIC is Intel(R) 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (on the motherboard) there are no Wake options of any kind in the Advanced tab, at least not with the word Wake in it

Ok so, forgot to set the procmon to start as admin so I had to remember to hit yes on my remote connection before it started. It also did something interesting which is instead of taking 3 minutes...

It only happens once a day between 3 and 5 am, or on a boot if the system was shut down at that time, so I have to wait till tonight for the clean boot. I really want to blame the Windows Automatic...

Clean Install, formatted the drive when I did it. Had waited a bit cause of the issues win10 was having with clean installs on initial release. I do have lots installed currently, but having tested...

Plugged into the router, Network card not allowed to wake the computer.

The events listed for my monitor and the generic monitor only have 11/14 listed which was my clean install.

Do I need...

Its on in normal running mode, just the power button on the monitor off. Sometimes playing audio before bed usually ending before the monitor wakes up, but its turned on without any programs running...

No active wake timers, turned those off awhile ago. Also wake timers would affect the system which isn't in sleep mode to begin with. Only the monitor appears affected, no visible programs or...

Turned off the gupdate service, but like I said, I had the problem even without any google programs installed after a fresh installation of Windows 10, so i'm relatively sure thats not the cause.

Ok, in the Event Log the items happening at the minute the monitor turns on:

Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing User Account Management (various logins to admin, default and my account)
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Checking through, not seeing anything I haven't already done.
Wake Timers are disabled. Wake commands from hardware are turned off except the mouse and keyboard. All my windows updates currently...

Ever since I installed Win10 the monitor has been turning on by itself between 3 and 5 am every night, or 3 minutes after login after a reboot if it is off at the time. Except on days immediately...