Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
I have Vista Ultimate running on my new Toshiba S-5034 notebook. In
the middle of the night, I don't know exactly when, the thing wakes
up for some reason and sucks up juice! Aaargh!
The notebook gets awfully hot in the bag as the fan struggles to
keep it cool in the confined space. I am left with a weak battery
for my commute too :-(
I thought that hibernate was the deepest power saving mode? The
hardware is completely powered off. It is only that the O/S saves
the CPU and memory state to HDD right and makes a boot-up "note" to
itself to restore the image? Therefore, can any task that was
running in Windows possibly wake up a system in hibernate state? I
don't think so because they aren't running.
Since the notebook is in my bag with no Ethernet or wireless on, I
am sure that Wake-on-LAN (WoL) couldn't possibly be the culprit for
problem or could it?
Yes, I am sure my notebook is in hibernate mode and *not* in sleep
mode. All lights go off on this Toshiba (there is a standby light)
and I have unplugged the notebook's battery and power adapter. I
can successfully resume where I left off after reattaching
everything and powering back on.
Can anyone offer any advice on this problem? TIA!
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Re: Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
Check in Device Manager and make sure under the network adapter under power
management it isn't allowed to wake the machine up
Re: Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
Interesting, I just checked in my Device Manager and my "Intel(R)
PRO/100 VE Network Connection" adapter has the check box "Allow this
device to wake the computer" *unchecked*.
Maybe there is some low level BIOS setting I should check the next
time I reboot this machine(?). At least I know where to focus my
investigation on now.
Re: Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
I had this same problem and checked the event logs/system and found entries for power-troubleshooter, which told me that it was Windows Media Centre updater that was running in the night and waking up the machine. Sure enough when I checked through the scheduled tasks under Microsoft/windows/medi player I found two entries for mcupdate, one of which was set to wake the computer to run. I unchecked this option from the conditions tab. I hope this helps someone.
Re: Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
We are seeing the same issue. Our laptop suddenly wakes up, always in
the middle of the night. Thank you for figuring this out.
Re: Vista Wakes Up from Hibernate in Middle of the Night
<quote>I had this same problem and checked the event logs/system and found entries for power-troubleshooter, which told me that it was Windows Media Centre updater that was running in the night and waking up the machine. Sure enough when I checked through the scheduled tasks under Microsoft/windows/medi player I found two entries for mcupdate, one of which was set to wake the computer to run. I unchecked this option from the conditions tab. I hope this helps someone. <end quote>
Thank you sooooo much for this solution! It works! I had been breaking my brains over this one!