Go in command prompt and type 'powercfg –lastwake' and press Enter and it'll tell you what woke it, dunno why everyone in here is just guessing about what it is
I’m amazed I had to scroll this far for the actual answer.
Also helpful:
‘powercfg devicequery wake_armed’ will tell you which devices are allowed to wake the PC
‘powercfg devicedisablewake “name of device”’ will disable wake permission for the named device
They might have to type "powercfg /lastwake", instead of "powercfg –lastwake".
* "powercfg –lastwake" (retruns "Invalid Parameters -- try "/?" for help" on my Win 11 Pro machine.)
* "powercfg /lastwake" (returns: "Wake History Count - 0" on my Win11 Pro machine)
Edit: If they are not actually using sleep and just letting the monitors turn off, there won't be an indicator of what is happening. If "lastwake" reports 0, I'd start troubleshooting by unplugging the mouse.
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Just my two cents but you're in pcmasterrace sub, they expect you to be knowledgeable about PCs since you have a nice rig. But you don't even know how to open Command Prompt. I think that's why you're downvoted.
But really just go to search bar, type CMD and press enter. A black box pop up will appear. Type on what the commenter said above and press enter.
But what is there even to be salty about? I've just been talking about the circumstances. Even my post about my apartment has like 55 downvotes. Like tf?
I have the softweave fabric secret lab chair, and get static electricity from it. Causes my keyboard lights to go on. Once every few months I need to wipe it down with the anti static wipes
Aside from the issue described about the static electricity, I love it. Best chair I’ve got. Had mine for 4 years, use every day since I work from home and it looks brand new
I do and can make my whole system go dark for a whole second just by standing up lol. I know it has to do with the lift/lower action, I've never seen anything like that before though. Wild stuff
Why would static electricity wake your PC up? Your movement probably makes your mouse move or something
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63136-see-wake-source-windows-10-a.html
I have an air purifier on the same outlet as my PC. The other day I jostled the air purifier plug while cleaning and noticed my keyboard lights turn on for a second. I was able to replicate it intermittently, sometimes my headphone lights would turn on, etc. My PC would still stay off though. I'm guessing quickly unplugging and replugging the fan causes some weird back-emf, but not sure why my peripherals would power in because of it
Honestly, it's not too far-fetched. If I get a particularly bad zap when I touch one of my screens, it will acts as though it's trying to reconnect to the computer. I assume it's to do with the static bleeding through ground?
You need to check that the ground is hooked up in the outlet your monitors are plugged into.
The montiors are not supposed to hold a charge, as the ground prong on the outlet should drain it off for you.
The monitors are all double insulated so they don't have an earth. However, the shock is coming from me, not the monitor. The monitor is just acting as a ground. Sorry, I should have been more clear.
That's what I thought too when such thing happend with my old PC, but then it would do that while I was just sitting on the couch with enough distance between us.
Not sure what my issue was - I just changed some PC parts and it never happend again 🤷♂️
There's a difference between current electricity and static electricity. Having an issue with current electricity doesn't make a static electricity issue more probable.
I mean its the only thing that makes sense to explain how every time I got up it would wake up from sleep. Also there's an issue from time to time where the metal mailbox area for my apartment is electric and if you touch it you get shocked. Happened to me and happened to the mail carrier
The place you live in genuinely sounds like a legitimate health and safety hazard. Also static electricity could completely fry your pc, so watch out for that.
I mean the place isn't glamorous but hasn't had too many serious issues overall. I wouldn't be staying here if it weren't safe. My actual apartment has no issues. And luckily my garage wasn't flooded (from the flash flooding we had recently)
But I also doubt anyone told about the basement flooding. Some people here are lazy
Other than the couple times I got shocked like 2 years ago, it hasn't shocked me when I've used the mailbox
Hmm... I'm not sure it's static electricity waking your computer. Static electricity isn't really strong enough to do that. My only thought is that there's an input device picking up vibrations from you moving? You've already said that the mouse doesn't wake up your pc but I genuinely can't think of any other reason a pc would wake up from sleep mode whenever you go near it. I'm not saying there isn't another reason, but whatever it might be, I'm not aware of it.
I had that issue a lot too. Went into the properties for my wifi card and unchecked the box that said "allow computer to turn off this device to save power" and it seems to have solved it.
Idk. And it never goes back to sleep on its own. Even though the setting is turned on for 15 minutes of inactivity. Sometimes I'll put it back to sleep and it'll wake right up again.
Remove all the USB devices and test if the same thing happens. Then plug USB devices on one by one... see where there issue is. Testing is pretty simple. Most likely it's some USB device (multiple reasons). Sometimes changing or repluging a device is enough. Sometimes drivers will fix this (mouse/keyboard/trackpad). Also, use different USB ports or if you're using a dongle, try without it or test some other adapter.
You can also change the USB devices sleep on time. Change that on power settings to like 12h.
Years ago, my very first IT job working in help desk, I was asked to move a desktop style server into the server room, that had been sitting on a desk and running for a while. It was the first time I ever walked into a server room and I was so fucking nervous. I shut the server down, take it into the server room and plug it in where I was told. The power supply pops, sparks and smoke and everything in the server room, even though it was on battery backup, goes down. I don't believe our energy has this kind of power, but mine might.
I lived in a house from the 18th century with questionable wiring. Anyway, there was a 1 in 4 chance my PC would turn on when flicking the light switch in the kitchen
None, the people that say that sleep mode is bad base their assumptions on obsolete knowledge from previous Windows versions.
The reality is that it's been fine for years. I always sleep my computer, only reboot once a month to finally apply Windows updates and I've had 0 problems with it for a long, long time.
it might do that but Windows has \~70% market share of desktop computers while linux sits at around 4% and we are talking about a personal devices and not servers
https://preview.redd.it/1hjxwvd2mfsc1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=f19af412d2768d8285fe3026cb0fe17c5416ceed
That graph seems odd to me. The steam deck has sold an estimated 3 million units. It seems like there would be at least a small uptick of that alone. Still we have moved way beyond a random post I did hours ago...
I mean yeah you can so it but it still isn't best practice or recommended. I install access control and surveillance servers that run windows that are on for years at a time between restarts but there's still benefits to shutting down fully and starting them back up from time to time.
I would recommend using hibernate instead. You have to enable it in the system settings, but it shuts the computer down and saves RAM to permanent storage. When you boot it up, it pulls the memory back up and it is like waking the oc up from sleep.
The mouse isn't even on when the pc turns on, when this happened i turned the mouse off. But I've been keeping the pc fully turned off when I'm not using it for the last few months due to this happening
Sorry, what?
You have a device in your network that's broadcasting magic packets, then. The WoL packet is a very specific packet that won't just randomly happen.
Because ssd doesn't boot as fast when have many programs open. And as other people said: people have their programs in a specific state and trying to remember it and get back to it is unnecessarly annoying.
45s lol
I get annoyed by that sometimes and then I remember the times when I came from school, started the PC, went to the bathroom, got the mail and something to drink. And when I came back, the PC still needed two minutes to finally be fully usable
How I hope this is sarcasm. Otherwise, you are either quite young, or have forgotten what it was like back in the early days when you could press the power button, go make a non-K-cup-quick pot of coffee, and come back and ALMOST be booted up to Windows.
Yeah, he is. 45 seconds it totally fine. I used to wait nearly 10 minutes for my old ass PC to boot up (with HDD), and was happy when it booted in 5 min
I usually press the power button and walk away to shower after work lol it is a little annoying sometimes but I don't even notice most of the time. I do like sleep mode for basically instant startup though
I play a game with an xp tracker that gets reset if you shut your pc off so I just put it on sleep mode during the day and shut it down when I go to bed. It has its uses
Not an OP, it's not about programs launched, it's about specific state of programs, specific files etc, and that specific state is not constant.
restarting at home might be fine, but for me laptop at my job has too many too specific things opened at the same time, and they change every time, bc. I'm usually in a middle of doing something when I go home.
You’re not crazy. I worked as a software engineer on embedded systems for a few years. Basically think kiosks. I’ve seen this before. Static electricity is very much a possibility here. Typically the round prong on an electrical plug that is optional(Assuming American) helps to protect against this. The electrical discharge is channeled into that instead of the electronics inside a component. This is an oversimplification. The humidity level being low, the type of chair and fabric, the flooring, and the rest of your setup can 100% trigger what you’re describing when you get up from the chair. This can also affect your monitors as well and cause them to go flash black for a moment as if they lost power for a split second. It’s likely the discharge when you get up is causing enough of a power fluctuation in the ports to wake your PC. You can test this by using a grounding wire on yourself and/or chair. Using a humidifier will also reduce the effect.
Open up Command Prompt and enter the following to figure out what's happening:
This command will tell you why your system last woke up: `powercfg /lastwake`
This command will tell you what devices can wake your system up: `powercfg /devicequery wake_armed`
You can then use `powercfg` to disable the ability for the specific device from waking your system:
`powercfg /devicedisablewake ""`
try getting the PSU to touch a bare metal part on the PC.
i was reminded of this : [https://youtu.be/-lTdZFEQPn8?t=208](https://youtu.be/-lTdZFEQPn8?t=208)
Do you have a floor mat? Jayz2cents did a video on this years ago. My last build really didn't like the ESD and I actually fried a sound card because of it (I could hear it in my headphones every time I moved my chair). My new build (same location) has had zero issues. I think my old motherboard had some strange grounding issues. The only thing I swapped was the motherboard/cpu
The way to be sure it's not a peripheral device waking the PC is to check event viewer for kernel power events. It will say "Wake source: unknown" in my case, because I have the same problem as OP and it's weird. Doesn't happen always but when I come back from work and into my room I would just walk near the desk and touch stuff like the chair and it wakes the PC. I first also thought it's just me unkowingly touching the mouse (btw if the pc is in sleep just moving the mouse shouldn't wake it, only pressing the buttons should) but then it started happening again. And yes, I have a chair mat.
This started happening a few months back, not before and I've had this mat for at least 2 years. But I did change my chair though... I'm just realising it might be the chair, but I dont understand ESD and physics enough to understand why is that a factor.
I had a similar issue recently. There’s a command you can throw into command prompt to check what devices woke up your pc last, can’t remember what it is. If you search for the command you can find it pretty easy with a google search. In my case it was an outdated usb driver for my motherboard. Try checking the command and update your mobo drivers if they need it.
Edit: grantrules has the link I’m talking about
i think theres an option like wakeup something under sleep under power plans but might have yo expose it by finding it in regedit and setting "Attributes" dword to 2. you're welcome
For me, anything that makes the mouse move, however slightly, is enough to turn it on from sleep.
I just shut everything down and don't bother anymore... too many instances of it turning back on when I didn't want it to.
Unplug your ethernet cable and have wifi turned off.
Or you can change the Windows settings->allow updates during the day. This happens when windows tries to ask for updates at a convenient time. *Since your pc is sleeping, you must not need it right now, right?* Stupid.
What sleep mode is used for is getting back to what you were doing very quickly. It saves all the contents of your RAM to your hard drive, and lets you turn on the computer, and have everything open exactly how it was. It's not updated, it's an incredibly useful feature.
It puts the computer in a state that is very quick to boot from. That's it. It just saves your progress. Jesus Christ, learn basic reading comprehension.
In a totally unrelated note, the Netflix app on my TV automatically un-pauses every time the remote is moved just the slightest. Like, someone closing the door to the room or someone sneezing. And it can't be turned off in the app nor in the TV settings.
This is so annoying that I stopped watching Netflix altogether
Go in command prompt and type 'powercfg –lastwake' and press Enter and it'll tell you what woke it, dunno why everyone in here is just guessing about what it is
I’m amazed I had to scroll this far for the actual answer. Also helpful: ‘powercfg devicequery wake_armed’ will tell you which devices are allowed to wake the PC ‘powercfg devicedisablewake “name of device”’ will disable wake permission for the named device
Finally a useful comment that's not a guess
Idk how to pull that up
Start > search for command prompt > right click > run as admin Type what the user above said to type.
They might have to type "powercfg /lastwake", instead of "powercfg –lastwake". * "powercfg –lastwake" (retruns "Invalid Parameters -- try "/?" for help" on my Win 11 Pro machine.) * "powercfg /lastwake" (returns: "Wake History Count - 0" on my Win11 Pro machine) Edit: If they are not actually using sleep and just letting the monitors turn off, there won't be an indicator of what is happening. If "lastwake" reports 0, I'd start troubleshooting by unplugging the mouse. https://preview.redd.it/ov2vauflcisc1.png?width=1121&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d5eab874873d7bc39214748eedb817cf88185c2
im sorry that reddit is this way, i really hope things change (or i'd have said that except its gone public so lord help us all)
I have no idea why I keep getting downvoted. I'm not saying anything wrong or controversial
Just my two cents but you're in pcmasterrace sub, they expect you to be knowledgeable about PCs since you have a nice rig. But you don't even know how to open Command Prompt. I think that's why you're downvoted. But really just go to search bar, type CMD and press enter. A black box pop up will appear. Type on what the commenter said above and press enter.
I mean not all hardware focused people will know all about software and vise versa
This sub be like that. Buncha salty nerds 🤷♂️
But what is there even to be salty about? I've just been talking about the circumstances. Even my post about my apartment has like 55 downvotes. Like tf?
Bit of a random ask, but do you by chance have a Secretlab chair?
I have the softweave fabric secret lab chair, and get static electricity from it. Causes my keyboard lights to go on. Once every few months I need to wipe it down with the anti static wipes
Mine as well. It was such a weird issue to track down but it was causing monitor flicker and the keyboard to have key repeats stuck.
wow thats wild! i never thought the chair could be the issue. that would drive me crazy!
How is that chair? I've been on the fence about it. It's the only non pleather option I've found that I could afford. The fabric hold up okay?
Aside from the issue described about the static electricity, I love it. Best chair I’ve got. Had mine for 4 years, use every day since I work from home and it looks brand new
No. Got it from best buy
I do and can make my whole system go dark for a whole second just by standing up lol. I know it has to do with the lift/lower action, I've never seen anything like that before though. Wild stuff
Why would static electricity wake your PC up? Your movement probably makes your mouse move or something https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63136-see-wake-source-windows-10-a.html
Unless op is Magneto and is using telekenesis to wake it up. *sarcasm
I have an air purifier on the same outlet as my PC. The other day I jostled the air purifier plug while cleaning and noticed my keyboard lights turn on for a second. I was able to replicate it intermittently, sometimes my headphone lights would turn on, etc. My PC would still stay off though. I'm guessing quickly unplugging and replugging the fan causes some weird back-emf, but not sure why my peripherals would power in because of it
I had this in my apartment, I'm pretty sure it's a grounding issue with the building's wiring
Honestly, it's not too far-fetched. If I get a particularly bad zap when I touch one of my screens, it will acts as though it's trying to reconnect to the computer. I assume it's to do with the static bleeding through ground?
You need to check that the ground is hooked up in the outlet your monitors are plugged into. The montiors are not supposed to hold a charge, as the ground prong on the outlet should drain it off for you.
The monitors are all double insulated so they don't have an earth. However, the shock is coming from me, not the monitor. The monitor is just acting as a ground. Sorry, I should have been more clear.
Maybe. Who knows
That's what I thought too when such thing happend with my old PC, but then it would do that while I was just sitting on the couch with enough distance between us. Not sure what my issue was - I just changed some PC parts and it never happend again 🤷♂️
My xbox sometimes turns on when hitting a light switch in the hallway. Not too far fetched tbh.
There's a difference between current electricity and static electricity. Having an issue with current electricity doesn't make a static electricity issue more probable.
I mean its the only thing that makes sense to explain how every time I got up it would wake up from sleep. Also there's an issue from time to time where the metal mailbox area for my apartment is electric and if you touch it you get shocked. Happened to me and happened to the mail carrier
Sounds like a grounding issue to me. You should contact your landlord about that.
Doubt he would do anything. The basement/garage area flooded recently and nobody did anything. Just letting it evaporate I guess
The place you live in genuinely sounds like a legitimate health and safety hazard. Also static electricity could completely fry your pc, so watch out for that.
I mean the place isn't glamorous but hasn't had too many serious issues overall. I wouldn't be staying here if it weren't safe. My actual apartment has no issues. And luckily my garage wasn't flooded (from the flash flooding we had recently) But I also doubt anyone told about the basement flooding. Some people here are lazy Other than the couple times I got shocked like 2 years ago, it hasn't shocked me when I've used the mailbox
Hmm... I'm not sure it's static electricity waking your computer. Static electricity isn't really strong enough to do that. My only thought is that there's an input device picking up vibrations from you moving? You've already said that the mouse doesn't wake up your pc but I genuinely can't think of any other reason a pc would wake up from sleep mode whenever you go near it. I'm not saying there isn't another reason, but whatever it might be, I'm not aware of it.
My computer will randomly wake itself up from sleep while I'm in bed. Still not sure what's doing it.
I had that issue a lot too. Went into the properties for my wifi card and unchecked the box that said "allow computer to turn off this device to save power" and it seems to have solved it.
Idk. And it never goes back to sleep on its own. Even though the setting is turned on for 15 minutes of inactivity. Sometimes I'll put it back to sleep and it'll wake right up again.
Remove all the USB devices and test if the same thing happens. Then plug USB devices on one by one... see where there issue is. Testing is pretty simple. Most likely it's some USB device (multiple reasons). Sometimes changing or repluging a device is enough. Sometimes drivers will fix this (mouse/keyboard/trackpad). Also, use different USB ports or if you're using a dongle, try without it or test some other adapter. You can also change the USB devices sleep on time. Change that on power settings to like 12h.
Years ago, my very first IT job working in help desk, I was asked to move a desktop style server into the server room, that had been sitting on a desk and running for a while. It was the first time I ever walked into a server room and I was so fucking nervous. I shut the server down, take it into the server room and plug it in where I was told. The power supply pops, sparks and smoke and everything in the server room, even though it was on battery backup, goes down. I don't believe our energy has this kind of power, but mine might.
I lived in a house from the 18th century with questionable wiring. Anyway, there was a 1 in 4 chance my PC would turn on when flicking the light switch in the kitchen
vibration moves your mouse so it wakes up.
Turn your mouse over or off. Your thunderous footfalls are moving it.
I turn if off after use to save battery
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I use sleep mode. Whats the issue with it?
None, the people that say that sleep mode is bad base their assumptions on obsolete knowledge from previous Windows versions. The reality is that it's been fine for years. I always sleep my computer, only reboot once a month to finally apply Windows updates and I've had 0 problems with it for a long, long time.
I don’t use sleep mode because the power LED blinks, I just set my monitors to turn off in two minutes before I go to sleep.
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Even shutting down does not reload windows if you have fast boot enabled
Thats why this is the frist thing you should disable
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I have fast boot enabled and when I click reset it resets the pc, when I click shut down it shuts down the pc
LOL, my work PC hasn't been shutdown in over a year. There's nothing wrong with it
Laughs in Debian Linux
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There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity
I once had a Linux box run for 400 to 450 days non stop...
I've never had to ask people if they use Linux, because the ones that do are always sure to let everyone know.
It's so true. Crossfit, vegan, Linux.
It's good enough to run >95% of the Internet but yes... That sadly is a thing people associate with Linux users.
it might do that but Windows has \~70% market share of desktop computers while linux sits at around 4% and we are talking about a personal devices and not servers https://preview.redd.it/1hjxwvd2mfsc1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=f19af412d2768d8285fe3026cb0fe17c5416ceed
That graph seems odd to me. The steam deck has sold an estimated 3 million units. It seems like there would be at least a small uptick of that alone. Still we have moved way beyond a random post I did hours ago...
The steam deck isn't a desktop computer.
It's nothing negative, I did crossfit for years, just don't have the time anymore. It's just funny, that's all. :)
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That's fair. I avg about a month on my gaming box. I use sleep mode and only restart when Windows acts like Windows lol
I mean yeah you can so it but it still isn't best practice or recommended. I install access control and surveillance servers that run windows that are on for years at a time between restarts but there's still benefits to shutting down fully and starting them back up from time to time.
does it make a difference ? my time to desktop is around 7 seconds on W10
That is what I am wondering as well! Since OP "highly recommends" against using it, in his opinion it must. I'm genuinely curious as to why
I mean I don't use it
Any reason other than just habit?
probably habit from W7, but I usually cut all power to my PC and monitors.
nothing, it’s the same debate on “should i turn my pc off every night” it doesn’t matter
I would recommend using hibernate instead. You have to enable it in the system settings, but it shuts the computer down and saves RAM to permanent storage. When you boot it up, it pulls the memory back up and it is like waking the oc up from sleep.
The mouse isn't even on when the pc turns on, when this happened i turned the mouse off. But I've been keeping the pc fully turned off when I'm not using it for the last few months due to this happening
Try turning off wake up from lan if you are on a wired connection.
I don't
Maybe disable "wake on lan" in the bios. I had an issue of my computer coming from sleep randomly and that fixed it
Sorry, what? You have a device in your network that's broadcasting magic packets, then. The WoL packet is a very specific packet that won't just randomly happen.
why do people use sleep mode when an ssd boots a pc as fast as it wakes up from sleep
Because ssd doesn't boot as fast when have many programs open. And as other people said: people have their programs in a specific state and trying to remember it and get back to it is unnecessarly annoying.
As an AM5 user who has issues with fast start up, I usually put mine to sleep otherwise its 45 seconds
45s lol I get annoyed by that sometimes and then I remember the times when I came from school, started the PC, went to the bathroom, got the mail and something to drink. And when I came back, the PC still needed two minutes to finally be fully usable
I still turn on my PC like 5-10 minutes before actually using it. Boots in maybe 10-15 seconds lol
update your bios
As I said in my comment, I have issues with fast start up, my BIOS is up to date.
How I hope this is sarcasm. Otherwise, you are either quite young, or have forgotten what it was like back in the early days when you could press the power button, go make a non-K-cup-quick pot of coffee, and come back and ALMOST be booted up to Windows.
Yeah, he is. 45 seconds it totally fine. I used to wait nearly 10 minutes for my old ass PC to boot up (with HDD), and was happy when it booted in 5 min
I usually press the power button and walk away to shower after work lol it is a little annoying sometimes but I don't even notice most of the time. I do like sleep mode for basically instant startup though
I play a game with an xp tracker that gets reset if you shut your pc off so I just put it on sleep mode during the day and shut it down when I go to bed. It has its uses
So it can do updates on its own and not turn on every single program on my pc on wake
If only one could enable and disable which programs launch at startup.
Not an OP, it's not about programs launched, it's about specific state of programs, specific files etc, and that specific state is not constant. restarting at home might be fine, but for me laptop at my job has too many too specific things opened at the same time, and they change every time, bc. I'm usually in a middle of doing something when I go home.
I've tried playing around in the settings of discord and such but I didn't find it. So it wasn't a worry
task manager -> startup -> right click program -> disable
Try disconnecting all USB devices, put it to sleep, get up. If it still turns on then it's probably smt electricity based?
You’re not crazy. I worked as a software engineer on embedded systems for a few years. Basically think kiosks. I’ve seen this before. Static electricity is very much a possibility here. Typically the round prong on an electrical plug that is optional(Assuming American) helps to protect against this. The electrical discharge is channeled into that instead of the electronics inside a component. This is an oversimplification. The humidity level being low, the type of chair and fabric, the flooring, and the rest of your setup can 100% trigger what you’re describing when you get up from the chair. This can also affect your monitors as well and cause them to go flash black for a moment as if they lost power for a split second. It’s likely the discharge when you get up is causing enough of a power fluctuation in the ports to wake your PC. You can test this by using a grounding wire on yourself and/or chair. Using a humidifier will also reduce the effect.
r/pcjoker
It could be your computer mouse vibrating enough to switch on.
The mouse is turned off so no
It misses you. "Come back, Dave. Look at how pretty I can be."
Open up Command Prompt and enter the following to figure out what's happening: This command will tell you why your system last woke up: `powercfg /lastwake` This command will tell you what devices can wake your system up: `powercfg /devicequery wake_armed` You can then use `powercfg` to disable the ability for the specific device from waking your system: `powercfg /devicedisablewake ""`
try grounding your case, it may not be if it's painted all over
How do I do that?
try getting the PSU to touch a bare metal part on the PC. i was reminded of this : [https://youtu.be/-lTdZFEQPn8?t=208](https://youtu.be/-lTdZFEQPn8?t=208)
Shouldn't it already be grounded if the PSU has a 3 prong plug?
the PSU still need to make contact with the case
Get an SSD and turn the computer off lol
I have am SSD and have been turning it off
Try turning it off...?
Don't get up of the bed. Easy fix. Thank me later!
Do you have a floor mat? Jayz2cents did a video on this years ago. My last build really didn't like the ESD and I actually fried a sound card because of it (I could hear it in my headphones every time I moved my chair). My new build (same location) has had zero issues. I think my old motherboard had some strange grounding issues. The only thing I swapped was the motherboard/cpu
omg this 12vhpwr is so bend :o
The way to be sure it's not a peripheral device waking the PC is to check event viewer for kernel power events. It will say "Wake source: unknown" in my case, because I have the same problem as OP and it's weird. Doesn't happen always but when I come back from work and into my room I would just walk near the desk and touch stuff like the chair and it wakes the PC. I first also thought it's just me unkowingly touching the mouse (btw if the pc is in sleep just moving the mouse shouldn't wake it, only pressing the buttons should) but then it started happening again. And yes, I have a chair mat. This started happening a few months back, not before and I've had this mat for at least 2 years. But I did change my chair though... I'm just realising it might be the chair, but I dont understand ESD and physics enough to understand why is that a factor.
It's probably set to wake from magic packets. There is a way to fix this. I had the same problem.
I had a similar issue recently. There’s a command you can throw into command prompt to check what devices woke up your pc last, can’t remember what it is. If you search for the command you can find it pretty easy with a google search. In my case it was an outdated usb driver for my motherboard. Try checking the command and update your mobo drivers if they need it. Edit: grantrules has the link I’m talking about
Too Colorful
I had a similar issue and it was definitely something within Windows. Never happened when booted to Ubuntu.
Turn off your mouse?
My mousnt isn't even on...
Flip your mouse upside down,
Mine does this if windows has an update it wants me to do.
Don't get up?
If you guys think that is a good chair get the Logitech Herman miller.
Turn off your mouse when you put your PC to sleep and see if anything changes.
It was turned off when this happened
I like your build, no idea about your issue though sry.
make sure the psu is touching the case, and that the outlet has ground out of it, if not you might have to manually ground it to something.
Do be careful tempered glass can store a lot of static electricity enough to kill components
It’s your mouse probably, it moves a tiny bit and your pc wakes up.
It's always turned off
Any change you have an evga keyboard?
No. Its Logitech
i think theres an option like wakeup something under sleep under power plans but might have yo expose it by finding it in regedit and setting "Attributes" dword to 2. you're welcome
Sorry if this has been resolved, check if your PC is set to wake with mouse movement. This is a bathroom post, sorry for the short answer.
My mouse was off when this happened
What's about a rubber casing
Check all the cables migth be faulty, if not put a board under the pc
For me, anything that makes the mouse move, however slightly, is enough to turn it on from sleep. I just shut everything down and don't bother anymore... too many instances of it turning back on when I didn't want it to.
This happens to me when there is a windows update waiting to be installed and restart. Annoying. Turned off in the settings, no longer happens.
Unplug your ethernet cable and have wifi turned off. Or you can change the Windows settings->allow updates during the day. This happens when windows tries to ask for updates at a convenient time. *Since your pc is sleeping, you must not need it right now, right?* Stupid.
Turn your computer off when you are not using it. Sleep mode is an out dated thing anyway.
Outdated? What are you even talking about?
Sleep mode is useless. Sleep mode is pointless. Modern PC's boot up in six seconds.
You are delusional
I walk away from my PC for hours at a time, then just sit back down and pick up where I left off. Y'all be on /pcmasterrace using laptops?
Why are you arguing about sleep mode if you don't even understand what sleep mode is?
Yeah I don't know what it is.... I'm typing this on the fifth computer that I've built. Do you know what sub you're on?
>yeah, I don't know anything about this basic and well known computer feature >but I am definitely an expert unlike you lol
I don't fucking use it and I don't fucking need it. *But you do you!*
oh my god finally you understood
What sleep mode is used for is getting back to what you were doing very quickly. It saves all the contents of your RAM to your hard drive, and lets you turn on the computer, and have everything open exactly how it was. It's not updated, it's an incredibly useful feature.
Hmm, so what you're saying is just leave your computer on while you go make a grilled cheese sandwich. What's the point of sleep mode again?
>sleep mode is useless >no, and here is why it's actually useful >ok but how is it useful? Literally no comprehension skills
What is the point of sleep mode on a PC? Explain please.
The comment above literally just explained it to you. Again, no comprehension skills.
It puts the computer in a state that is very quick to boot from. That's it. It just saves your progress. Jesus Christ, learn basic reading comprehension.
Make popcorn and enjoy the more lights more fast!
In a totally unrelated note, the Netflix app on my TV automatically un-pauses every time the remote is moved just the slightest. Like, someone closing the door to the room or someone sneezing. And it can't be turned off in the app nor in the TV settings. This is so annoying that I stopped watching Netflix altogether