wake on lan Computer wakes up randomly/WoL help

[ash54]

Since I built my computer a few months ago, I have never been able to put it on sleep or hibernate without it waking up automatically shortly after. I went into the device manager and disabled all of my usb devices from waking it up and it would still turn on automatically. After that I went and disabled my network adapter from waking the computer randomly and that seemed to solve it. My issue is that I want to know what was causing it to wake up in the first place, and also I need help setting up WoL in a way that I can turn on my computer when I am not at home, any help? 

[ash54]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Ah, so THAT'S why my computer's been waking up from sleep for more than a year now... I CAN FINALLY SLEEP IN THE SAME ROOM AS IT AGAIN

Btw sorry, no idea how to set up WoL

Haha you're welcome No worries though. 

[//FTP]

The NSA is spying on us again....

[aeroencychris]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179257-wake-source-read-event-viewer-log.html

As for WoL, been there, done that. I have a always-on linux media server running so I use TeamViewer to wake up and remote control my actual PC. My router also has some form of WoL capability. Ultimately you're going to need another device to actually wake it.

[ash54]

6 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179257-wake-source-read-event-viewer-log.html

As for WoL, been there, done that. I have a always-on linux media server running so I use TeamViewer to wake up and remote control my actual PC. My router also has some form of WoL capability. Ultimately you're going to need another device to actually wake it.

That helps quite a bit, but for some reason when I wake it from a hibernated state, it just says unknown wake source instead of power button. When I wake it from sleep it says power button. I reenabled my ethernet adapter to allow it to wake the computer up and now it doesn't wake it from hibernate, just from sleep. And when it does, it says the source is my power button.... why?  I'm planning on using my phone to wake the computer up.

[aeroencychris]

1 hour ago, ash54 said:

That helps quite a bit, but for some reason when I wake it from a hibernated state, it just says unknown wake source instead of power button. When I wake it from sleep it says power button. I reenabled my ethernet adapter to allow it to wake the computer up and now it doesn't wake it from hibernate, just from sleep. And when it does, it says the source is my power button.... why?  I'm planning on using my phone to wake the computer up.

Maybe your actual power button mobo header is shorting? Try disconnecting it and just use a keyboard to wake it from sleep (assuming this is a desktop)