Laptop Waking up from Hibernation by itself.

[Perryg114]

My Dell Win 7 laptop is waking up from Hibernation on its own. I will turn it off when I go to bed and it has turned itself back on without me turning it back on. I checked the event logs and I can see where the logs stopped at a little after 9PM but then at around 2AM it turns itself back on. I am not connected to the LAN just WiFi. This seems really odd to me. Several times I have come home to find the laptop running while covered with a pillow or something and I am afraid it will catch fire or burn up. This could also happen when putting it in a laptop bag. This behavior seems odd and not exactly safe. I have it set to hibernate when the lid is closed and that seems to not have any effect. Under what circumstances can a computer wake from Hibernation?

Perry

 

[corkyg]

Why connect to WiFi when hibernated?

 

[Perryg114]

What I meant was, that it should not be able to wake from a LAN signal since it is not physically connected. WiFi is my connection to the net. Can a WiFi signal wake a hibernating computer? I was of the impression that hibernate was a complete shutdown that uses no battery resources unlike sleep that will drain the battery of the laptop.

 

[corkyg]

WiFi is just a wireless WAN, and it can awaken your computer. Do you have a SSD boot drive in your laptop?

 

[JackMDS]

Look in the configuration tab of the Wireless Card properties menu and uncheck the Allow this computer to Wake.

 

[Ketchup]

What AV are you running? Any backup set up? One Drive?

Generate is great, when it works right. Really a pain when it doesn't.

Hopefully it's just something trying to get online, and disabling Wi-Fi from waking, as described above, will take care of it.

 

[ManyBeers]

Windows Media Center will update at 3 am. (it will wake the computer to do so) You can disable updating via Task Scheduler. I had the same issue on my own windows7 box.

 

[corkyg]

I still am puzzled as to why you have wifi on when you are sleeping.

 

[Iron Woode]

sounds like the "magic packet" strikes again.

 

[Perryg114]

It was mcupdate waking up the computer. Corkgy the WiFi mechanical switch was in the on position when I hibernated the computer. This link helped.WiFi wake was not enabled. mcupdate woke it up not a device.

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179257-wake-source-read-event-viewer-log.html

Perry

 

[deustroop]

I'm in fond memory of the PS2 port
RIP good bud.

With the proper software, my favorite was Logitech, that connection supported a cold boot of Windows (7 and back), with a mere space bar press.

I'm getting all nostalgic now, eyes brimming.

 

[Perryg114]

I still think there is something else. Waking it up. What happens if it is in a laptop bag when it decides to wake up? If you look at the event logs it says source unknown.

Perry