Hiya!
I thought I had figured this out yesterday, but.. Nope!
BACKGROUND:
This Windows 7 workstation has power settings applied via group policy over a large network. The settings that apply handle ONLY when the monitor turns off and when the computer sleeps. This computer will go to sleep, as by design, but then wake itself up randomly (about 30 seconds after being asleep).
TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS TAKEN
When the computer originally woke itself up, I ran 'power cfg -devicequery wake_armed' in CMD and it returned that HID Mouse Device was waking up the computer. Because of this, I went into device manager and disabled the 'Allow this device to wake up this computer' box in the mouse's driver settings. While there, I disabled the ability for the network to wake up the computer, and ENABLED the ability for the keyboard to wake up the computer (as we will need SOMETHING to wake it up when it goes to sleep!)
Next, I waited. And waited. And waited. The computer no longer went to sleep. Thinking that the only real change I made was disabled the NIC and mouse from waking the computer up, I unplugged the mouse and waited some more.
Sure enough, the computer then, successfully, went to sleep. It also woke itself up, again. After running 'Powercfg -devicequery wake_armed' showed that the HID Keyboard device woke the computer up (which is silly, because I never pressed any keys).
Next, I swapped out both the keyboard and mouse. Now, the computer will go to sleep when the mouse is plugged in (which fixed the problem if it not falling asleep to begin with), but the HID keyboard device STILL wakes the computer up without me pressing any keys (with the new keyboard plugged in).
I verified that all of the USB ports listed in device manager are not set to 'allow this device to wake up this computer', and switched USB ports on the machine (switching the keyboard and mouse to the front USB slots, rather than the back).
Still, when the computer goes to sleep, it wakes itself up stating that the HID keyboard device wakes it up.
Any thoughts? Please let me know.
I thought I had figured this out yesterday, but.. Nope!
BACKGROUND:
This Windows 7 workstation has power settings applied via group policy over a large network. The settings that apply handle ONLY when the monitor turns off and when the computer sleeps. This computer will go to sleep, as by design, but then wake itself up randomly (about 30 seconds after being asleep).
TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS TAKEN
When the computer originally woke itself up, I ran 'power cfg -devicequery wake_armed' in CMD and it returned that HID Mouse Device was waking up the computer. Because of this, I went into device manager and disabled the 'Allow this device to wake up this computer' box in the mouse's driver settings. While there, I disabled the ability for the network to wake up the computer, and ENABLED the ability for the keyboard to wake up the computer (as we will need SOMETHING to wake it up when it goes to sleep!)
Next, I waited. And waited. And waited. The computer no longer went to sleep. Thinking that the only real change I made was disabled the NIC and mouse from waking the computer up, I unplugged the mouse and waited some more.
Sure enough, the computer then, successfully, went to sleep. It also woke itself up, again. After running 'Powercfg -devicequery wake_armed' showed that the HID Keyboard device woke the computer up (which is silly, because I never pressed any keys).
Next, I swapped out both the keyboard and mouse. Now, the computer will go to sleep when the mouse is plugged in (which fixed the problem if it not falling asleep to begin with), but the HID keyboard device STILL wakes the computer up without me pressing any keys (with the new keyboard plugged in).
I verified that all of the USB ports listed in device manager are not set to 'allow this device to wake up this computer', and switched USB ports on the machine (switching the keyboard and mouse to the front USB slots, rather than the back).
Still, when the computer goes to sleep, it wakes itself up stating that the HID keyboard device wakes it up.
Any thoughts? Please let me know.