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Network waking PC from sleep

Wiplive
By Wiplive
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Hello, recently I've started receiving the problem of my computer waking up from sleep and hibernation at random times. I've noticed that whenever I boot on Windows, I have huge amounts of Network Adapters in my device manager.

 

Here's the screenshot:

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So I'm starting to think (and others on this forum) that the fault for waking up while in sleep mode is a network problem. Here are the screenshots from event viewer right after the PC woke up from sleep.

 

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So far I've tried plugging out the Ethernet cable when going to sleep - still woke up. I uninstalled the network adapters - still woke up (they add 1 fake adapter on every reboot). Also disabled the Wake from sleep in Device Manager - still doesn't work. I've tried looking in BIOS for an option, but there were none. I use Z97 PC Mate motherboard.

 

What are my options here? What could be the problem? I haven't installed any Hamachi-like programs on my computer. Recent Windows 10 clean install, no viruses.

 

Thanks in advance!

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This worked for me.....

 

Hmm, it only shows me HID Keyboard and HID Mouse. I've already tried plugging the mouse out when I was going away for a few hours. Will try it now with both of them disabled to wake up from sleep in the device manager. Any idea of the huge amounts of Network Adapters I have? Are they bad or what? The only thing I noticed is that when I turn the PC on, at first the internet doesn't work, it's identifying the fake Adapters until it reaches the real one and it starts working.

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This worked for me.....

 

Nope, I disabled all devices that can wake the PC up, it still wakes up by an "Unknown" something in Event Viewer.

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Do you have a VPN installed? Try uninstalling and see if the problem goes away and then look for an updated version to install.

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I've seen this problem caused by AutoKMS, the tool which resets the license for the office suite back up to 180 days?

Eeh, by gum.
 

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