Windows keeps waking itself from sleep mode need app to force sleep.

[Baldape]

Hi I have a problem with Windows 7 waking itself from sleep all the time and I tried all the settings related to sleep nothing works.     So are there any programs out there that can help Windows sleep?

[AdvancedSetup]

Maybe check with the MFG support site and see if they have any known reported issues or updated power management softwwarre

[Baldape]

Maybe check with the MFG support site and see if they have any known reported issues or updated power management softwwarre

MFG?

[AdvancedSetup]

Manufacturer - IBM, DELL, HP, Sony, etc

[Baldape]

Manufacturer - IBM, DELL, HP, Sony, etc

Its a custom built desktop.

[David H. Lipman]

Baldape, that really isn't a helpful answer.  For example I am typing this on a "custom built desktop" but, it is based upon an ASUS P8Z77-V Pro motherboard running Windows 7/32.

 

If this was my situation, I would look at the ASUS BIOS and see how Wake from Sleep settings are enabled for hardware such as by USB and Network Interfaces.  Then look at the Device Setting for taking a system out of sleep and also going to the advanced settings and configuration of Control Panel --> Power Options.

 

The answer will lie in one of or in the combination of;  Power Options, Device Settings and Motherboard BIOS settings.

[Baldape]

Baldape, that really isn't a helpful answer.  For example I am typing this on a "custom built desktop" but, it is based upon an ASUS P8Z77-V Pro motherboard running Windows 7/32.

 

If this was my situation, I would look at the ASUS BIOS and see how Wake from Sleep settings are enabled for hardware such as by USB and Network Interfaces.  Then look at the Device Setting for taking a system out of sleep and also going to the advanced settings and configuration of Control Panel --> Power Options.

 

The answer will lie in one of or in the combination of;  Power Options, Device Settings and Motherboard BIOS settings.

Sorry I forgot to mention what motherboard I have its a Asus B85M-ECSM.

And I went over this with my friend already and we determined that its neither the BIOS nor the power settings in Windows plus earlier I suspected I had an infection so I got help on this site and we found out that nothing was apparently waking Windows. So there must be some system bug that's causing this to happen.

[David H. Lipman]

Have you looked through the Event Viewer to see if a "Wake On X Event" had occurred ?

[Baldape]

Have you looked through the Event Viewer to see if a "Wake On X Event" had occurred ?

I just looked under my event viewer and I couldn't find anything like that in there.

[David H. Lipman]

You looked in the "System Log" ?
 
Look, Create and/or Filter on...

"Event ID" 42 source "Kernel-Power"
"Event ID" 1 source "Power-Troubleshooter"

 

• Right-Click on "Computer" and choose "Manage.
• Go to;  Event viewer
• Right-Click on Custom View and choose; "create custom view"
• Find the "Filter" Tab and then check the box for "By Source" and from the Event sources use the drop-down and select select "Kernel-Power" or "Power-Troubleshooter".  Additionally make sure all the Event Levels is checked
• Find "Task Category" and enter the "Event ID" { shown above }
• Choose OK
• Name your Power Log

Give it a go.

 

{ I hope my directions help }

[Guest]

A network card may be the problem. May.

You can go into device manager and press properties on your network card and uncheck allow this device to wake up my computer.

Tell us if that works.

[Baldape]

Something else that might help track the culprit down --

 

In an elevated command prompt try :

 

To see what device caused the last wake -- powercfg –lastwake

 

Which devices are enabled to wake -- powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

http://www.techsuppo...eeps-waking.htm

Sorry about the late reply. When I enter powercfg –lastwake it says invalid parameters and the only devices which can wake my PC are the mouse and keyboard.

[David H. Lipman]

Do you have a cat ?

 

Does anyone "sleep walk" ?

[David H. Lipman]

Just to clarify Shrugged's post...
 
When one passes a "switch parameter" to a command line utility ( they can also be a GUI utility ), the delimiter of the switch parameter is ¹usually a singular character "-" or "/"
In his original post he accidentally was redundant with two "-" characters ( "--" ) which caused an "Invalid Parameters" type error message
 
So with the above in mind, the command becomes...
 
powercfg -lastwake
 
alternatively one can use the "/" delimiter.
 
powercfg /lastwake
 
 
----
1.  I write usually as this is a traditional case.  However there are also many utilities that may use "--" as an additional "switch parameter delimiter".

 

Example: 
 
WGET  --execute=http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/   http://www.google.com

[Baldape]

You looked in the "System Log" ?

 

Look, Create and/or Filter on...

"Event ID" 42 source "Kernel-Power"

"Event ID" 1 source "Power-Troubleshooter"

 

• Right-Click on "Computer" and choose "Manage.
• Go to;  Event viewer
• Right-Click on Custom View and choose; "create custom view"
• Find the "Filter" Tab and then check the box for "By Source" and from the Event sources use the drop-down and select select "Kernel-Power" or "Power-Troubleshooter".  Additionally make sure all the Event Levels is checked
• Find "Task Category" and enter the "Event ID" { shown above }
• Choose OK
• Name your Power Log

Give it a go.

 

{ I hope my directions help }

I created those logs you told me to earlier and I haven't found any events in them yet.