PC waking from sleep constantly - issue for over 2 years now and I've tried every single thing I can find online. There is no solution.

Just came here to tell you all how utterly hopeless this situation is. I've been having this exact issue for over 2 years now, so long I can't even remember exactly when it started, so that part of my being able to help is long gone. I'm at the point where I'm ready to sell off this PC and start over.  

I'll put my PC to sleep and it will wake up at completely random points. Sometimes a minute or two after I put it to sleep, sometimes hours afterwards. Sometimes it goes back to sleep, sometimes it just stays awake.  

I have tried literally every. single. solution. There is nothing you can link to me that I haven't tried over the past few years - including taking it to the useless repair shop in town who had it for over a month and a half and said they fixed it. It isn't fixed.  

If you have some abstract ideas that are extremely uncommon, I'm willing to try. Thanks in advance.

June 1st, 2015 4:04pm

What were the results when you ran powercfg /lastwake , and powercfg /waketimers?
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June 1st, 2015 4:26pm

Wake History Count - 1

Wake History[0] 

Wake Source Count - 0

So that tells us literally nothing. 

June 1st, 2015 5:19pm

Good chat.
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June 1st, 2015 7:17pm

my suggestion will sound funny, but to test there is nothing wrong with HW, power management, conflict with other 3rd party software or environment issue, I always do this step

Try to monitor your PC at safe mode, if your PC doesn't restart or give other symptoms related to power means your hardware working fine (mainboard, graphic card, CPU, RAM, PSU ect)

After you make sure this is not hardware issue, try to perform clean boot to isolate 3rd party software issue. Some of antivirus, screen saver app ect, maybe will force windows from wake up.

If this issue still persist, try to isolate from environment side, disable your network (maybe some one access your shared file or without permission access your file), remove any 3rd party HW attached (printer, LAN, USB, external HDD ect), if possible try to change mouse and keyboard to test


June 1st, 2015 11:15pm

Hi YellowJellow,

We can try to filter the Event Source "Power-Troubleshooter" from system catalog to collect related information to have a troubleshoot.

Event Viewer\Windows Logs\System

Best regards

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June 2nd, 2015 2:56am

my suggestion will sound funny, but to test there is nothing wrong with HW, power management, conflict with other 3rd party software or environment issue, I always do this step

Try to monitor your PC at safe mode, if your PC doesn't restart or give other symptoms related to power means your hardware working fine (mainboard, graphic card, CPU, RAM, PSU ect)

After you make sure this is not hardware issue, try to perform clean boot to isolate 3rd party software issue. Some of antivirus, screen saver app ect, maybe will force windows from wake up.

If this issue still persist, try to isolate from environment side, disable your network (maybe some one access your shared file or without permission access your file), remove any 3rd party HW attached (printer, LAN, USB, external HDD ect), if possible try to change mouse and keyboard to test


June 2nd, 2015 3:11am

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