I have a newly built computer running Windows 7 64-bit. Asus Z77 Sabertooth mobo, 3770k cpu, Samsung SSD 830 128 GB, WD CB 1TB HD, 16gb RAM. It seems at some point after I installed the hard drive that when the computer goes to sleep, the hard drive, fans and lights will all turn on and every few minutes. This continues until I move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard. During all of this the monitor stays on standby and does not come back on. Any ideas?
Computer wakes itself up over and over
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ur6beersaway
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In the command prompt, copy and paste the command below and press enter.
powercfg lastwake
That will tell you what is going on.
powercfg lastwake
That will tell you what is going on.
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dalethepcman
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I have a somewhat related question. Since you have an SSD, why do you have sleep enabled? Your system can cold boot or restore from hibernation just as fast as coming out of sleep and it saves much more power.
The above post should give you the name of the device that last woke your system from sleep. To expand on his post slightly though use the following command to fix sleep issues.
"PowerCfg -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed" will list all hardware that has the ability to wake the system from sleep.
"PowerCfg -devicedisablewake (device name)" will disallow a hardware component from waking your computer.
"PowerCfg -requestsoverride" This will show you the windows services, processes, and drivers that can prevent the system from entering sleep.
For additional information you can use the powercfg wiki or the builtin help files
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c3rtfoy
Happy hunting
Edit: added tinyurl to wikipedia to fix hyperlink format issues
The above post should give you the name of the device that last woke your system from sleep. To expand on his post slightly though use the following command to fix sleep issues.
"PowerCfg -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed" will list all hardware that has the ability to wake the system from sleep.
"PowerCfg -devicedisablewake (device name)" will disallow a hardware component from waking your computer.
"PowerCfg -requestsoverride" This will show you the windows services, processes, and drivers that can prevent the system from entering sleep.
For additional information you can use the powercfg wiki or the builtin help files
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c3rtfoy
Happy hunting
Edit: added tinyurl to wikipedia to fix hyperlink format issues
dalethepcman :
I have a somewhat related question. Since you have an SSD, why do you have sleep enabled? Your system can cold boot or restore from hibernation just as fast as coming out of sleep and it saves much more power.
The above post should give you the name of the device that last woke your system from sleep. To expand on his post slightly though use the following command to fix sleep issues.
"PowerCfg -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed" will list all hardware that has the ability to wake the system from sleep.
"PowerCfg -devicedisablewake (device name)" will disallow a hardware component from waking your computer.
"PowerCfg -requestsoverride" This will show you the windows services, processes, and drivers that can prevent the system from entering sleep.
For additional information you can use the powercfg wiki or the builtin help files
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c3rtfoy
Happy hunting
Edit: added tinyurl to wikipedia to fix hyperlink format issues
The above post should give you the name of the device that last woke your system from sleep. To expand on his post slightly though use the following command to fix sleep issues.
"PowerCfg -DEVICEQUERY wake_armed" will list all hardware that has the ability to wake the system from sleep.
"PowerCfg -devicedisablewake (device name)" will disallow a hardware component from waking your computer.
"PowerCfg -requestsoverride" This will show you the windows services, processes, and drivers that can prevent the system from entering sleep.
For additional information you can use the powercfg wiki or the builtin help files
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c3rtfoy
Happy hunting
Edit: added tinyurl to wikipedia to fix hyperlink format issues
I'll check some of this out. As far as why I have sleep enabled, I never put any thought into the difference between sleep and hibernation. Computers are not my area of expertise. I'll play around with some settings.
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If your computer didn't show anything for a wake event, and the requestsoverride is blank then you might have a rootkit / virus and/or be a zombie on a bot net.
Was your HDD reused, or was this a clean drive? Since you just built this system performing a clean install of windows might resolve your sleep issue's. faster than troubleshooting the issue.
Manual disk clean/wipe
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html
perform a clean install
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
Was your HDD reused, or was this a clean drive? Since you just built this system performing a clean install of windows might resolve your sleep issue's. faster than troubleshooting the issue.
Manual disk clean/wipe
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html
perform a clean install
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
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