Hibernated laptop keeps starting up itself

DaveG247

Hi,

Recently I've been hibernating my Del studio laptop instead of shutting it down, but I've woken up a couple of times (4am ish) to find that the laptops running and am not sure why (ghost in the system maybe ). I can remeber something in an older version of windows where I think you could set the system to run a defrag for disk clean up at a certain time and am not sure if that whats happening, if it is I dont know where it is in Vista. Anyone have any ideas. Ta

penrhyn

If you shut the lid it won't come back on.

You may find that its being woken up by the internet.

This article may help
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-sleep-mode-randomly-waking-up-issue-in-windows-vista/

DaveG247

penrhyn wrote: »

If you shut the lid it won't come back on.

You may find that its being woken up by the internet.

This article may help
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-sleep-mode-randomly-waking-up-issue-in-windows-vista/

Thanks given that a look but I do shut the lid and my "Allow this device to wake the computer" is already unchecked so don't think this is the problem. I've checked and unchecked though just in case.

AHAR

Is it definitely fully going into hibernation when you select it?
I know some BIOSes allow you to set a timed power-on but you'd know if you'd set that. Is the network connection wired or wireless?

DaveG247

AHAR its wireless and gets turned off before I go to bed.

DaveG247

So checking and unchecking "Allow this device to wake the computer" just incase didn't seem to work, it still turns it's self on at stupid o'clock.:(

spud17

Assume you've checked Anti virus and MS updates are not scheduled for this time, and waking it up.

Syncback back up would wake my PC from hibernation.

AHAR

I'd have thought the only things that could turn a hibernated system on would be the things that could turn on a system that had been shut-down? Pushing the power button, BIOS alarm or Wake-on-LAN signal.
Is it turning on at the same time every night? Look at the event viewer to see what time the activity is occurring.
If it's successfully hibernating you'll be able to disconnect the mains and the battery and it'll boot-up back to the things you had open when you hibernated (one you reconnect the power!)

JasX

you can try the /powercfg command ("/powercfg /?" is a good start in DOS) , in windows7 it has flags to tell you EXACTLY what device last caused your PC to wake up but it got a bit of an overhaul for Win7 and not sure if it could do alll that back in vista....

DaveG247

OK, thanks everyone for the recent suggestions,

I've checked Avast but cant see anything about a date and time for updates.

I've checked MS updates which had to install the updates everyday at 03:00 now change to "let me choose when to download and install them" which I'm guessing could be the problem, didn't know you could do that.

Also checked the event viewerand there a few events around 04:39 but I have no idea what these are, I'm guessing something to do with MS updates?

Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Resolver/Operational
Microsoft-Windows-WPD-MTPClassDriver/Operational
Microsoft-Windows-WPD-ClassInstaller/Operational
Microsoft-Windows-RestartManager/Operational
Thanks

DaveG247

Looks like changing the MS update settings has sorted my problem. Thanks all