This is what worked for me. There should be an option on your card in Device Manager to only allow the network card to be woke up with only a "magic packet". Select that option. A search on the web will lead you to sites that offer freeware to create the packet. This is not as mysterious as it sounds. Basically the magic packet uses the actual hardware address of the card to send a signal to the card to wake it up.
This is the only way to keep the card from constantly waking itself and the computer. I don't have the name of the program I use right at hand, but I can post it later on today.
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately magic packet is already checked and it doesn't help. I've pretty much tried checking and unchecking all the power management options to no avail. At this point, I think I'll just give up and go back to Windows 7 just to remove the operating system from the equation.
Have you tried turning off scheduled tasks all together? I am running Windows 8 pro, not Enterprise so that could be a factor. I would try calling Microsoft. The support is free at this point, might as well take advantage. Sometimes real time trouble shooting is the best way to go. I was once on the phone for two hours, but they stayed with it and worked out the problem.
Hello,
Yes, disabling all the scheduled tasks was one of the things I tried but it didn't help. I guess I can close this request as I've gone ahead and moved back to Windows 7. So far, my computer isn't waking up on its own which leads me to believe that there is either an issue with Windows 8 that needs to be sorted out, or ASUS or Intel need to update some of their drivers.
I'll try Windows 8 again in a year and see how it goes as hopefully there will be better drivers and more patches but at this point there aren't any benefits for me to stick with it.
Thanks again for your help.
Cheers.
Have you tried un-checking "Wake on Pattern Match" ? It's the next option under Wake on Magic Packet.
This stopped spontaneous wakes for me.
Thanks,
Alex.
Hi, I'm having this issue too. My motherboard is from ASUS, model Sabertooth Z77.
What I've notice is when I try to change anything on NIC properties page, the dialog hangs, no error is presented and the only option I have is to kill the task on task manager.
So I chose the option to update only the drivers, without installing other Intel (useless..) features.
Now I can change the settings fine, but I need the WOL feature and the PC keeps waking up a few minutes after going to stand by.
I did a simple test and REMOVED the network cable (Cat6) and the PC woke up again... This way I can be sure there is nothing else on my network (ASUS RT66 router) sending any kind of signal the NIC could interpret as a wake up signal.
So definitely is an issue with the Intel driver, as I had uninstalled it and was using the default Windows 8 driver without issues. But from time to time the Windows Update updates the NIC driver again...
If I disable WOL the problem is "fixed", but I need WOL to turn my PC on remotely when needed.
Regards.
