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#90276 18-Sep-2011 18:13

How do we go about finding what's bringing a machine back from hibernation without apparent reason?

In both my Windows Home Server and a Windows 7 boxes I have disabled the network adapter's option to allow it to wakeup the PC, but in both cases I can put the machine to sleep and it will come back alive at some random point - sometimes minutes, sometimes a couple of hours.

How do we go about finding out what's causing this?

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#522715 18-Sep-2011 18:19

I see:

powercfg -lastwake
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

These work in Windows 7 but not Windows Home Server (2003) though...

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#522736 18-Sep-2011 19:52

Ohh, hoping you get an answer to this, got a laptop that does it. I'm wondering if it's the WHS2011 connector waking it up.

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#522740 18-Sep-2011 20:14

I don't use the WHS Connector anywhere in my LAN, so it's not it in my case.

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#522747 18-Sep-2011 20:43

From experience, the mouse can cause this,

Especially optical mice, they detect a motion where there was none, and the OS takes it as mouse movement, which causes a wakeup.

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#522758 18-Sep-2011 21:13

In the case of my Windows Home Server there's no monitor, no mouse, no keyboard. Only network and three attached external USB HDD. I guess it will be harder to track on this box seeing there's no powercfg -lastwake option on Server 2003.

In the case of the Media Center there's no mouse - although there's an IR receiver for remote control, which could possibly detect some lights as IR and turn the device on. Let's see which device it reports if it happens again.

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#522759 18-Sep-2011 21:13

Does this include a trackpad on a laptop with a closed lid?

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#522808 19-Sep-2011 00:09

Are they waking up for a scheduled: windows update, microsoft security essentials update, defrag or windows search index?

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#522819 19-Sep-2011 02:57

freitasm: (snip) I have disabled the network adapter's option to allow it to wakeup the PC, but in both cases I can put the machine to sleep and it will come back alive at some random point - sometimes minutes, sometimes a couple of hours.

How do we go about finding out what's causing this?

Not that I don't trust that you've done it, but please double/triple check that you disabled all the Wake on LAN/Magic packet settings. I was asked the exact same question by my mother who insisted that her PC was waking from Hibernation sometime between when she put it in at night, and midday before she wanted to use it.

I had disabled all the obvious WoL options (BIOS & Windows) I could see, and yet a WoL packet still woke it up until I got a couple of hidden Intel options.

Off the top of my head, the locations/settings are:

Obvious settings under "Power Management" (Network card Properties in Device Manager)
(for some cards) Options under the "Advanced" tab (Network card Properties in Dev Man)
(For iirc Intel cards) there is another Intel tab in the same location

I also think there may have been an option somewhere else, but I can double check tomorrow.

But get a WoL packet sender (most Linux distros should ship w/ ether-wake either by default or as a quick package install, and there seem to be quite a few Google listings for Windows), and send a couple of packets targetted to your machine's MAC.

(To this day, I am absolutely certain there were no WoL packets going through the network, but something was triggering the "Magic packet" catch-all and waking it up, after disabling _ALL_ the WoL/Magic packet settings it stopped happening.)

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#522824 19-Sep-2011 06:11

Seen this happen with windows updates on a friends laptop.

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#522851 19-Sep-2011 08:22

Might be harder to do with no keyboard, but have you checked the wake settings in the bios? Maybe windows overrides these, I don't know, but they may be waking the system or need to be set differently to stop the system being woken.

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#522876 19-Sep-2011 09:20

Just in case you folks may be right, I've checked the NIC properties and in addition to the Windows option to no use WoL I've also disabled in the NIC properties. Note that the Intel adapter has an option in addition to WoL settings basically deferring control to the OS, while Yukon adapters don't have it.

So it's all off now and will test again during the day today.

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