My pc is either possesed or plotting to kill me at night!

[Ploooopp]

HI

 

So basically sometimes when i go to sleep my PC randomly turns on, i hear all the fans turning on and the light of my keyboard, mouse and the three monitors fill my room. What can be the cause of this? It's really annoying, because im trying to sleep the few hours im not on the actual thing. I have come to the conclusion that it's either plotting to kill me or Satan has made it his nest Well i hope someone has an awnser to this. BTW i use the same outlet for all the things, the pc itself, my 3 monitors and my eletrical desk + (sometimes) my laptop charger.

 

Thanks

[Guest]

I know the feel I have a baseball bat next to me in bed.

[Panda of the Shadow]

Probably a PSu issue. Don't ell me cheaped out on the PSU.

[kristaps552]

Wake on lan has been enabled? 

Or maybe it's the lord GabeN himslef trying to tell you that you should game more, and that sleep is for the weak.

[Nallown]

Is there anyone you know who might have access to your computer and is a bit techy? could be that someone is trolling you and has set it in the bios to turn on at a certain time, check your bios settings.

 

I know the feel I have a baseball bat next to me in bed.

I'd not do that because otherwise he'd grab it and SMASH it into your face, maybe keep the baseball bat in your hands like a teddy and cuddle with it while you're asleep?

[Panda of the Shadow]

Wake on lan has been enabled? 

Or maybe it's the lord GabeN himslef trying to tell you that you should game more, and that sleep is for the weak.

Do you know that Gaben means about the same as gift/donation here in germany? (Also a gift is a posion in germany...) 

[Cryptonite]

HI

 

So basically sometimes when i go to sleep my PC randomly turns on, i hear all the fans turning on and the light of my keyboard, mouse and the three monitors fill my room. What can be the cause of this? It's really annoying, because im trying to sleep the few hours im not on the actual thing. I have come to the conclusion that it's either plotting to kill me or Satan has made it his nest Well i hope someone has an awnser to this. BTW i use the same outlet for all the things, the pc itself, my 3 monitors and my eletrical desk + (sometimes) my laptop charger.

 

Thanks

Why do you turn off your pc anyway?

[kristaps552]

Do you know that Gaben means about the same as gift/donation here in germany? (Also a gift is a posion in germany...) 

Then I shall GabeN you my like. 

Oh and please don't drink gift...

[PillowSmoke]

It's the NSA hacking into your computer and stealing all your valuable information for them to use to plot something against you.

[dylandylandylan]

A good place to start is going to the command prompt and typing powercfg /lastwake to see what was the last event that caused your computer to wake up.

 

There are a number of settings in the BIOS under Power Management such as "Wake on PME," "Wake on LAN," etc. Make sure they're all set to off.

 

Windows also loves to pre-schedule tasks like system updates, disk defrags, sending system reports to Microsoft, and so on, for the middle of the night, and sometimes it will wake the computer to do them. You can go to the Windows Task Scheduler (type "Task Scheduler" in the start menu search) and see a list of what it typically does. If you click on a particular task, you'll see several tabs below. Under the "Conditions" tab is an option called "Wake the computer to run this task." Make sure it's unchecked. For all of the tasks scheduled in the middle of the night. There could be like 60 of them, which was the way it was on one of my friends' computers. He had to go through and uncheck every one of them before it would finally stop waking up for no good reason.

[DudeWazap]

I also have this same problem. My computer goes to sleep then wakes back up in 10 min then goes back to sleep and wakes up later again. I never knew how to fix it so I just leave it on the entire time.

[Erik4boss]

Drag out the power cable when you go to sleep.

[dylandylandylan]

I also have this same problem. My computer goes to sleep then wakes back up in 10 min then goes back to sleep and wakes up later again. I never knew how to fix it so I just leave it on the entire time.

 

See my post above my friend, it may help you.

[DudeWazap]

 

A good place to start is going to the command prompt and typing powercfg /lastwake to see what was the last event that caused your computer to wake up.

 

There are a number of settings in the BIOS under Power Management such as "Wake on PME," "Wake on LAN," etc. Make sure they're all set to off.

 

Windows also loves to pre-schedule tasks like system updates, disk defrags, sending system reports to Microsoft, and so on, for the middle of the night, and sometimes it will wake the computer to do them. You can go to the Windows Task Scheduler (type "Task Scheduler" in the start menu search) and see a list of what it typically does. If you click on a particular task, you'll see several tabs below. Under the "Conditions" tab is an option called "Wake the computer to run this task." Make sure it's unchecked. For all of the tasks scheduled in the middle of the night. There could be like 60 of them, which was the way it was on one of my friends' computers. He had to go through and uncheck every one of them before it would finally stop waking up for no good reason.

 

I just did that and it says the last time it woke up was due to a "Wake Timer"

[dylandylandylan]

I just did that and it says the last time it woke up was due to a "Wake Timer"

 

It'll either be the scheduler waking things up, or the BIOS issue, try both

[DudeWazap]

It'll either be the scheduler waking things up, or the BIOS issue, try both

okay thank you.I'll check them out.

[DudeWazap]

It'll either be the scheduler waking things up, or the BIOS issue, try both

Okay I disabled the "Wake Timer" in the power management control panel. Hopefully this fixes the issue.

[2CoolforCPU]

HI

 

So basically sometimes when i go to sleep my PC randomly turns on, i hear all the fans turning on and the light of my keyboard, mouse and the three monitors fill my room. What can be the cause of this? It's really annoying, because im trying to sleep the few hours im not on the actual thing. I have come to the conclusion that it's either plotting to kill me or Satan has made it his nest Well i hope someone has an awnser to this. BTW i use the same outlet for all the things, the pc itself, my 3 monitors and my eletrical desk + (sometimes) my laptop charger.

 

Thanks

this happened to me too, but if i shut it down correctly it doesn't go on.

[dylandylandylan]

 

A good place to start is going to the command prompt and typing powercfg /lastwake to see what was the last event that caused your computer to wake up.

 

There are a number of settings in the BIOS under Power Management such as "Wake on PME," "Wake on LAN," etc. Make sure they're all set to off.

 

Windows also loves to pre-schedule tasks like system updates, disk defrags, sending system reports to Microsoft, and so on, for the middle of the night, and sometimes it will wake the computer to do them. You can go to the Windows Task Scheduler (type "Task Scheduler" in the start menu search) and see a list of what it typically does. If you click on a particular task, you'll see several tabs below. Under the "Conditions" tab is an option called "Wake the computer to run this task." Make sure it's unchecked. For all of the tasks scheduled in the middle of the night. There could be like 60 of them, which was the way it was on one of my friends' computers. He had to go through and uncheck every one of them before it would finally stop waking up for no good reason.

 

 

this happened to me too, but if i shut it down correctly it doesn't go on.

 

Check out the above post if you want to solve this issue. If it doesn't solve your issue, it's more than likely a PSU problem.

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

When you turn it off, turn off the PSU at the back as well.

[Ploooopp]

It was not a psu problem, it was stupid me forgetting to turn off wake on lan in the bios. Thanks to everyone