My Pc turns on randomly in the middle of the night

[El_Tortuga32]

Occasionally I pretend to be “responsible” and I turn off the computer for the night while I “go to sleep”. While I’m “sleeping”, I notice that my computer turns on in the middle of the night. I had some issues where my computer turned off randomly while I was using it, I never was able to find out what was the problem but it hasn’t happened again. Another time I had pressed the power button but it didn’t turn on, I had to re-seat the power cable to the motherboard and that fixed that issue. Yesterday, it turned on randomly and had the time wrong it was 12:17 am but the computer said it was 9:55 pm. I am unsure what it could be. Help.

[strange13930]

1 minute ago, El_Tortuga32 said:

Occasionally I pretend to be “responsible” and I turn off the computer for the night while I “go to sleep”. While I’m “sleeping”, I notice that my computer turns on in the middle of the night. I had some issues where my computer turned off randomly while I was using it, I never was able to find out what was the problem but it hasn’t happened again. Another time I had pressed the power button but it didn’t turn on, I had to re-seat the power cable to the motherboard and that fixed that issue. Yesterday, it turned on randomly and had the time wrong it was 12:17 am but the computer said it was 9:55 pm. I am unsure what it could be. Help.

anything in event viewer?

[apoyusiken]

my best guess is thermal expansion or whatever happens and it presses the power button or something

[KidKid]

1 hour ago, El_Tortuga32 said:

Occasionally I pretend to be “responsible” and I turn off the computer for the night while I “go to sleep”. While I’m “sleeping”, I notice that my computer turns on in the middle of the night. I had some issues where my computer turned off randomly while I was using it, I never was able to find out what was the problem but it hasn’t happened again. Another time I had pressed the power button but it didn’t turn on, I had to re-seat the power cable to the motherboard and that fixed that issue. Yesterday, it turned on randomly and had the time wrong it was 12:17 am but the computer said it was 9:55 pm. I am unsure what it could be. Help.

You're sure it's not a Windows update or a power outage/power surge?

[jmwhite33]

 

@El_Tortuga32

logically if it wasn't "OFF" but only "sleeping" it could do it during an update.

If it happens on late Tuesday night, probably windows updating.

 

otherwise, do you know any good exorcists?

[ewitte]

I've had so many PITA issues with "sleep".  The gaming rig I was on kept randomly waking up and sometimes not at all.  The new one Would sleep and randomly wake up but still was drawing 12-15+ watts which is what it ides at even without sleeping!  I made it hibernate instead.  Windows doesn't want you to do that on AC though I had to regedit to get it to work...

 

Up until this point I just left the computer on, but I have everything running off batteries now I'm trying to extend the runtime.