Waking Pc

Babnik42 · 2007-03-14, 08:53

I know this is a problem of many, but I cannot seem to find the problem. My pc wakes up from standby every night, and I find it awake in the morning. I don't think it's MP doing it, as I have MCE on the machine, and it could be that what is waking the pc up, but I have no idea what. Is there anywhere, windows logs etc etc I could look and at least find out what is waking the pc up? Anybody had this problem and fixed it?

Bagal · 2007-03-14, 11:56

It could be the MCE EPG update that's causing it. If you're not using MCE then your best bet is to disable all of the MCE services, that should then stop it waking up the pc.

Babnik42 · 2007-03-14, 16:23

I've thought of that, but

1) I have set the MCE guide to NOT update automatically.
2) Doesn't MP disable the MCE services on startup?

zag2me · 2007-03-15, 08:48

Make sure wake on lan is turned off in bios if its onboard.

andreavb · 2007-03-15, 09:44

maybe it is MP that is waking the PC to execute WebEPG update, check WebEPG update plugin if it is enabled and when it is scheduled to start

Babnik42 · 2007-03-15, 10:37

Definitely not WebEPG, and definitely not the wake on Lan setting as this was off.

Actually, I have just enabled this, as I want to experiment with wake on lan, but made sure that the pc will only wake up if it receives the "Magic Packet", and not just any lan activity. Guess what, this morning the PC was still in standby. So maybe that was it, even though the bios WOL was disabled...We'll see tomorrow morning!

infinityloop · 2007-03-16, 10:41

simply remove the LAN cable and see if it still wakes up.
if it does not, then it gets a WOL packet

scoop · 2007-03-16, 11:10

Hi,

If you go to device manager and look at the properties for your network card, there's also an "Energy" or perhaps "Power Management" tab. There, you have a setting called "this device can wakeup the computer from standby". Actually there are several device classes which have this property. Sometimes disabling this option altogether for a particular device helps. In my case my htpc immediately woke up when entering standby, because on the same tab there's also a setting called "Only network management stations can wakeup the computer from standby" which is basically a filter that only Wake-on-LAN packets may wakeup the PC and that option wasn't checked

. So, if you've got this setting disabled, then any network packet (i.e. ethernet broadcasts

) can wakeup your PC. I ran into this issue when testing the Wake-on-LAN feature of my HTPC.

Kind regards,
Michel

2007-03-14, 08:53	#1 (permalink)
Babnik42 Portal Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 39 Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country:	Waking Pc I know this is a problem of many, but I cannot seem to find the problem. My pc wakes up from standby every night, and I find it awake in the morning. I don't think it's MP doing it, as I have MCE on the machine, and it could be that what is waking the pc up, but I have no idea what. Is there anywhere, windows logs etc etc I could look and at least find out what is waking the pc up? Anybody had this problem and fixed it?

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zag2me Portal Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Age: 29 Posts: 182 Thanks: 5 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Country:	Make sure wake on lan is turned off in bios if its onboard. __________________ silent htpc, 3.6tb media server, samsung 32" lcd http://www.movie-xml.com <--join in please, it benefits everyone.

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andreavb Portal Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Age: 34 Posts: 131 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Country: My System	maybe it is MP that is waking the PC to execute WebEPG update, check WebEPG update plugin if it is enabled and when it is scheduled to start __________________ Andrea Tincani AndreaVB Programming Il Portale per Lui e Lei

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infinityloop Project Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 28 Posts: 5,718 Thanks: 131 Thanked 94 Times in 65 Posts Country: My System	simply remove the LAN cable and see if it still wakes up. if it does not, then it gets a WOL packet __________________ regards chris MediaPortal Project Coordinator Test Team Leader Do not start to moan if something is not working as you want it to be. Remember that MediaPortal is Open Source. YOU can improve it!

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2007-03-14, 11:56	#2 (permalink)
Bagal Portal Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 72 Thanks: 4 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country:	It could be the MCE EPG update that's causing it. If you're not using MCE then your best bet is to disable all of the MCE services, that should then stop it waking up the pc.

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Babnik42 Portal Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 39 Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country:	I've thought of that, but 1) I have set the MCE guide to NOT update automatically. 2) Doesn't MP disable the MCE services on startup?

2007-03-15, 10:37	#6 (permalink)
Babnik42 Portal Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 39 Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Country:	Definitely not WebEPG, and definitely not the wake on Lan setting as this was off. Actually, I have just enabled this, as I want to experiment with wake on lan, but made sure that the pc will only wake up if it receives the "Magic Packet", and not just any lan activity. Guess what, this morning the PC was still in standby. So maybe that was it, even though the bios WOL was disabled...We'll see tomorrow morning!

2007-03-16, 11:10	#8 (permalink)
scoop Portal Developer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 610 Thanks: 2 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts My System	Hi, If you go to device manager and look at the properties for your network card, there's also an "Energy" or perhaps "Power Management" tab. There, you have a setting called "this device can wakeup the computer from standby". Actually there are several device classes which have this property. Sometimes disabling this option altogether for a particular device helps. In my case my htpc immediately woke up when entering standby, because on the same tab there's also a setting called "Only network management stations can wakeup the computer from standby" which is basically a filter that only Wake-on-LAN packets may wakeup the PC and that option wasn't checked . So, if you've got this setting disabled, then any network packet (i.e. ethernet broadcasts ) can wakeup your PC. I ran into this issue when testing the Wake-on-LAN feature of my HTPC. Kind regards, Michel

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