Sleepless in Toronto

[Guest]

Computer doesn't sleep nor does it want to hibernate and I have no clue what is the problem.

 

Problem in detail: computer will wake itself again after putting it to sleep or hibernate. Turning it off does fine and it doesn't turn back on

 

What I have attempted: Make a post on LTT to ask for help

 

Frequency of the problem: It happened in the past for few weeks then came back to normal. After a while problem happened again.

 

What have I done that could have affected:

• Reassembled PC completely when I was moving out as wanted each component to be seperate. Everything was removed, even the case. Except CPU cooler as I did not want to reapply thermal paste. But put together back and worked fine. Did put it to sleep then and worked too but not now. 
• Removed dGPU and started using iGPU. I also did DDU on it. Twice. 
• Removed Ubuntu os and attempted to reinstall again (ubuntu was on hdd and as I did not see a clear way of cloning ubuntu to ssd so decided to remove it and install back). Installation did not work so agai removed Ubuntu and all its partitions. 
• Windows auto update occured too. Did reinstall Windows 10 twice. 

Specs: i5 4460, stock cooler, Asus h81m-e, 8GBx1 RAM stick, 2TB seagate HDD + 1TB WD Blue + Sandisk Ultra II 240GB + optical drive, Delta 500AB-6A PSU (500w) 

 

Sorry wrong place, suppose to be troubleshooting

 

[sazrocks]

Try unplugging/disconnecting your network connection. Sounds like something is sending magic packets and waking up your computer.

[stconquest]

Win... 7?

 

...maybe check to see if "wake on LAN" is active... shut it off.

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, stconquest said:

Win... 7?

 

...maybe check to see if "wake on LAN" is active... shut it off.

I might mess up BIOS before not sure

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, stconquest said:

Win... 7?

 

...maybe check to see if "wake on LAN" is active... shut it off.

nope all disabled. win 10

 

[stconquest]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

nope all disabled. win 10

 

Does... you new place have a train passing nearby?  The vibrations could shake you mouse/keyboard and wake the PC...

 

Sorry, I kid... I wish I could help.  Maybe someone actually helpful will drop in. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, stconquest said:

Does... you new place have a train passing nearby?  The vibrations could shake you mouse/keyboard and wake the PC...

 

Sorry, I kid... I wish I could help.  Maybe someone actually helpful will drop in. 

lol no train. 

31 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Try unplugging/disconnecting your network connection. Sounds like something is sending magic packets and waking up your computer.

will try, someone before reported about internet and ethernet stuff

[Lyrin]

Try using " powercfg -lastwake " in cmd (Windows) next time your computer wakes on its own. It should show you what caused it to wake up.

[Guest]

Just now, Lyrin said:

Try using " powercfg -lastwake " in cmd (Windows) next time your computer wakes on its own. It should show you what caused it to wake up.

Ooo did not know that. 

[Lyrin]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Ooo did not know that. 

A friend of mine had a similar issue as this, using that they found out their computer was being woken via packets from the router checking to see if the computer was still connected on that line.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Try unplugging/disconnecting your network connection. Sounds like something is sending magic packets and waking up your computer.

 

11 hours ago, Lyrin said:

Try using " powercfg -lastwake " in cmd (Windows) next time your computer wakes on its own. It should show you what caused it to wake up.

Thanks guys! This forum is awesome (lol)

I now know the internet is what caused the problem

[sazrocks]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

 

Thanks guys! This forum is awesome (lol)

I now know the internet is what caused the problem

If that command did reveal that your computer was receiving a magic packet, then the problem is probably a device on your network. do you have any services set up (Torrents, etc.) that could be causing your router to send a magic packet?

[Guest]

29 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

If that command did reveal that your computer was receiving a magic packet, then the problem is probably a device on your network. do you have any services set up (Torrents, etc.) that could be causing your router to send a magic packet?

Utorrent maybe but i disabled  in device manager and its fine now

[sazrocks]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Utorrent maybe but i disabled  in device manager and its fine now

If you still want to use utorrent, you can try digging around in your bios and try to disable waking on a magic packet. It might be enabled in multiple places though, and can be a pain to enable/disable, which is why I told you just to unplug the network connection.

[Guest]

Just now, sazrocks said:

If you still want to use utorrent, you can try digging around in your bios and try to disable waking on a magic packet.

No. utorrent still runs fine. I just removed the check allow this device to wake computer (ehternet adapter) 

[sazrocks]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

No. utorrent still runs fine. I just removed the check allow this device to wake computer (ehternet adapter) 

Ah. Glad you fixed it!

[Lyrin]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

No. utorrent still runs fine. I just removed the check allow this device to wake computer (ehternet adapter) 

Glad to hear you were able to pinpoint the cause and deal with it