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PC Waking from Sleep Mode By Itself

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A couple days ago, I watched my PC wake from sleep mode by itself. Yesterday, it was already awake when I got up. This morning, I was awakened by the bright monitor turning on around 4:30 AM. I've never seen this before in the couple months since I built this PC. The most recent hardware/firmware change was upgrading BIOS from 4507 to 4752 about 2-3 weeks ago. But my PC and I had at least two weeks of uninterrupted sleep (couldn't resist the double entendre) after the BIOS update, so I'm not sure that caused it.

 

Wake/Sleep Settings: Basic power settings are turn off display in 20 mins., computer sleep in 30 mins., hard disks off after 45 mins. The Intel 82578 network adaptor was set to wake on magic packet. I disabled that, but I'm skeptical about something on my home network accidentally sending the correct magic packet. I also disabled Allow Wake Timers. That didn't help either. Any other ideas?

 

I'll post this issue on some Windows 7 sites too, but want to check BIOS/firmware first.

 

OS: Windows 7 Pro x64

Motherboard: Intel DP55KG

CPU: i7 860

Storage (system): Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSD x 2 (RAID-1)

Storage (data): Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB x 2 (RAID-1)

Video: PowerColor AX5750 1GBD5-S3DH HD 5750

BIOS version: KGIBX10J.86A.4752.2010.0217.1029

Chipset: P55, INF version 9.1.1.1022

Intel RAID Driver RST 9.5.0.1037 (10/2/2009)

Marvell 6145, BIOS 1.2.0.31, Driver 1.2.0.7103 (9/15/2009)

  • 1. Re: PC Waking from Sleep Mode By Itself
    steppinwolf Community Member
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    Solved. I discovered a wake timer event in System event log:

    The system has resumed from sleep.

    Sleep Time: ?2010?-?03?-?16T04:51:52.023330900Z

    Wake Time: ?2010?-?03?-?16T07:04:08.353048800Z

    Wake Source: Timer - Windows will execute '\Microsoft\Windows\Media Center\mcupdate_scheduled' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

    This alerted me to the existence of many scheduled tasks--most of them hidden--that I disabled or rescheduled in Windows Task Scheduler to stop the PC from waking up in the middle of the night. You can also control whether events are allowed to wake the computer. Note that, for some reason, disabling wake timers in Windows 7 advanced power management didn't stop these tasks from waking my PC.

     

    Games

    Update Check (changed from daily at 2 AM to every 4 weeks at 2 PM)

     

    Microsoft Windows
         Application Experience
              AitAgent (disabled)
              ProgramDataUpdater (disabled)

    Customer Experience Improvement Program

         Consolidator (disabled)

         KernelCeipTask (disabled)

         UsbCeip (disabled)

    Defrag (changed to 7 PM instead of 2:30 AM)

    Diagnosis (changed from 1 AM to PM)

    Maintenance

         WinSAT (changed from 1 AM to 1:30 PM)

    Media Center

         mcupdate_scheduled (changed from 7:13 AM to 11:13 AM)

    Power Efficiency Diagnostics

         AnalyzeSystem (changed from 6 AM to 6 PM)

    Registry

         RegIdleBackup (changed from 12 AM to 12 PM)

    SoftwareProtection Platform

         SvcRestartTask (changed from 12 AM to 12:15 PM)

    SystemRestore

         SR (changed from 12 AM to 10 PM)

    Time Synchronization

         SynchronizeTime (changed from 1 AM to 1 PM)

     

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