Windows 10 keep waking up desktop

[Samoyed]

I have a desktop that we took the "Free" Win10 upgrade a year or so ago.  Since then the desktop comes out of sleep mode several times a night.  Sometimes its a quick return to sleep, sometimes it stays on until we put it back into sleep manually.

 

Ive asked in several forums, nothing seems to correct this problem.

the last wake and all those commands show nothing is causing it to happen.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I checked all the power functions, etc.

All drivers, etc are up to date.

 

it's just a work station, in the home network.No hardware on it except for headphones.  nothing fancy on it - IE, Firefox, Office and Hitman Pro.  McAfee is the AV software.

 

ANY suggestions?  Thanks

[Guest]

open cmd

type

powercfg - lastwake

shows what trigger last time 

[GoodBytes]

Usually the culprit are:

• "Wake On LAN" network feature enabled in the BIOS/UEFi. Disable it.
• "Wake On LAN", "Wake on Magic Packet", "Allow this device to wake the computer" are enabled in Device Manager networking card. Disable it.
• Mouse. Disable that in Device Manager. Look for "Allow this device to wake the computer" in the "Power Management" tab.
• Some software like Team Viewer is installed. Uninstall it.

 

[Samoyed]

Powercfg - lastwake does not report anything.  are there any other reporting features i could try?

 

Thanks

[Samoyed]

In BIOS there is no Wake on Lan options.  They are disabled int he device manager in Win 10

[Levisallanon]

6 minutes ago, Samoyed said:

In BIOS there is no Wake on Lan options.  They are disabled int he device manager in Win 10

maybe the system seller hide it in the bios (or just gave you a crappy bios).
You could use a program like wireshark to capture your network activity to see if the packages are send or even easier use a tool like this:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html
and try putting the computer in sleep and then sending it a WOL packet. If it wakes up again there is a good chance this is your causes and to disable it you either have to configure your router/switch to just block the WOL packages to this interface or flash your bios to a good version so you can disable it or find the source of the WOL packets and disable it.

[Klovnious]

19 minutes ago, Samoyed said:

Powercfg - lastwake does not report anything.  are there any other reporting features i could try?

 

Thanks

Try powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

Also check this:

21 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

• "Wake On LAN", "Wake on Magic Packet", "Allow this device to wake the computer" are enabled in Device Manager networking card. Disable it.
• Mouse. Disable that in Device Manager. Look for "Allow this device to wake the computer" in the "Power Management" tab

And remember to check the keyboard aswell, you can do this in device manager.

[Samoyed]

Thank You

 

The: powercfg -devicequery wake_armed  showed a network controller device i never would have thought to check: Realtec PCIe GBE Family Controler (thinking PCIe was for video card)

 

I disabled the Wake from Sleep and so far it seems it was the culprit.

 

Thanks again