Timmah339 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 windows 7 and vista, also, will not stay asleep on my computer. xp worked just fone as far as sleep and hibernate, and i had WOL enabled. i've disabled everything i can as far as power management and wake on lan for my network card, but it still wakes itself. my motherboard is an asus p5gv-mx, if that helps. i even tried unplugging my ethernet cable and it still won't stay asleep. does anyone know how to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symphony Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Similar issues here, but only with Win7. It goes to asleep, but it randomly wakes up, no idea what is causing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted May 5, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 5, 2009 Yep, same thing. I close the lid on my laptop, and it goes to sleep. When I come back later in the day. I open the laptop lid, and normally vista would wake up and present the log in screen. Win 7 right now doesn't. It looks like the computer was turned off. SO I hit the power button and it looks to start up from scratch, but then it says resuming windows... Is this Hibernate? I never used hibernate before. Maybe it is a battery/energy saving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted May 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 5, 2009 windows 7 and vista, also, will not stay asleep on my computer. xp worked just fone as far as sleep and hibernate, and i had WOL enabled. i've disabled everything i can as far as power management and wake on lan for my network card, but it still wakes itself. my motherboard is an asus p5gv-mx, if that helps. i even tried unplugging my ethernet cable and it still won't stay asleep. does anyone know how to fix this? Check the media sharing settings in the advanced power management. Switching mine from "keep awake" to "Allow to sleep" made my PC stop waking up. It would go to sleep after an hour then wake up again like 30-60 seconds later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted May 5, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 5, 2009 OH yeah, I will have to check this setting, because I did have the media sharing setup. Thanks for the pointer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiftflo Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Check the media sharing settings in the advanced power management. Switching mine from "keep awake" to "Allow to sleep" made my PC stop waking up. It would go to sleep after an hour then wake up again like 30-60 seconds later. I am also having this same problem, PC will not stay asleep, checked madia sharing and it was set to "allow to sleep". So don't know were to go from here. Using Win7 RC 32 bit 7100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_ehat Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 My PC was waking up during the night, too. I discovered it was for two different reasons: 1. Windows Media Center was scheduled to download updated TV listings in the middle of the night. The task in Task Scheduler had the option ticked for "Wake the computer to run this task" on the conditions tab of the task's properties. 2. Some signal on the network was waking the machine up. Perhaps a ping or something by someone else--I'm not completely sure. (edit--Maybe it was media sharing.) I checked the network adapter's properties and on the Power Management tab the option "Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer" was unchecked. You could just choose to uncheck the option "allow this device to wake the computer" as well. After these two changes, my computer sleeps much better--I don't need to shove Tylenol PM tablets into the USB ports anymore to keep it asleep. Here's a helper to figuring out what your issues may be: open a command prompt right after the computer wakes on its own (or when you first see that it has woken up on its own) and type "powercfg -lastwake". That will show you a reason or device that caused the computer to wake up. That's how I found my two problems. There are some other options in the powercfg utility that might be useful, too. Just do a powercfg /? to see what else is there. One option shows all devices that are allowed to wake the computer and another will show processes that are preventing the computer from sleeping or turning off the display, etc. Best of luck. When I was running Vista I couldn't track down my issue with this because powercfg would tell me the computer was woken up because of an expired timer (RTC event or something). Probably was a scheduled task. I'm not sure, but I think the powercfg utility has been improved a bit with Windows 7. Useful resource: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-po...e-problems.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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