My PC turns on by itself during the night (SOLVED)

Anonymous
2020-02-12T09:32:14+00:00

I've seen similar questions already posted, but I had to ask since they're kinda outdated.

In the evening I'd put my PC to hibernation. Browser and XAMPP are on. And around 3:15-3:45 at night it would turn on by itself (and wake me up). Not every night, but often. I turned of Wake on LAN (at least I think so) as suggested on other threads, but it still turns on. It's most probably network related, for last two nights I've put it on hibernation and unplugged the network cable and it didn't turn on.

I think this started with 1909 update, but I couldn't be 100% certain, I didn't use hibernation much until a month ago.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I've found a bunch of possible solutions on different forums, check my reply below. It worked for me.

Specs:

OS: Windows 10 Pro 1909

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 340

RAM: 4GB

GPU: ASUS R5 230 series

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Sleep and Power on, off

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-20T12:51:49+00:00

    I've dug over the internet and found a bunch of possible solutions. Proud to say that it worked! I don't know which one, but for a reader of this it may vary. Here are all of them:

    • Go to your Device manager and uncheck every Wake-On-Lan (WOL) option there is at your network card's Advanced tab. Also go to your mouse's settings and uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer". [This one's already mentioned in this thread]
    • Go to Control Panel and find Backup and Restore (Win7), check if there's any scheduled automatic backup, those might wake the computer up.
    • Go to Task schedules by using run window on taskschd.msc command. Check the Task Schedule Library to see if there's any task that's allowed to wake up the PC.
    • Open command prompt as admin and type this to see if there's something scheduled to wake up the PC: 
        powercfg /lastwake

    I did this and found that SystemEventsBroker is scheduled and it's allowed to wake up my PC.

    • Based on the last point, there are couple of possible scenarios. One option is to check your BIOS/UEFI for a setting(s) regarding WOL or Magic Packet. Make sure they're disabled. It can also be a driver issue or OS maintenance time (Start > type: Maintenance > pick: Security & Maintenance > expand: Maintenance > Change maintenance time).
    • Correlated to the command prompt point, I found on another thread on MS Answers (see here) this principle: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Change Plan Settings, then Change advanced power settings. There, search for Allow wake timers under Sleep option. Disable that.
    • On the same post on MS forum, there's this reply I was too tired to try:

    Use this psexec:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec

    Navigate to the required folder, and execute the following command:

    psexec.exe -i -s %windir%\system32\mmc.exe /s taskschd.msc

    Next. navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > UpdateOrchestrator.

    Right click the task called Reboot and click on Disable.

    After disabling it, change the permissions on the file C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\Update Orchestrator\Backup Scan or Windows will re-enable the task. You need to change the owner to Administrators, click OK, then edit the permissions and set each principle to just Read.

    --

    Go through all of them and any that say "wake the computer to run this task" ... disable !!

    I found this solution and it works for me... but you will have to do again every now and again!! Save the command.

    This one requires you to install a program though.

    That's all that I've found. Good luck!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-12T08:54:07+00:00

    PULL THE POWER COORD.  My PC booted up 7 times in one night last week.  Now I just unplug the damn thing before I go to sleep.  SOME OF US SLEEP IN THE SAME ROOM AND HAVE JOBS.  STOP POWERING UP MY PC AT 3 AM!!!!!

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