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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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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!
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!
simply remove the LAN cable and see if it still wakes up.
if it does not, then it gets a WOL packet
if it does not, then it gets a WOL packet
- November 14, 2004
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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
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