I'm soo frustrated! Days of tweaking and I'm almost done and run into an issue like this. I put the pc to sleep and it turns back on instantly. I've narrowed it down to my Ethernet/lan but the thing is - it's always worked before. Now if I disable the Ethernet connections it will sleep fine. The only settings I changed were the receive and transmit buffers (which should have no effect?) and the disabling of admittedly a lot of services. (All researched and 90% had been disabled before without killing sleep). Also the group policy tweak to reserve more bandwidth (again no clue how this could affect it) Could have nothing to do with services but I'm kinda stuck on how to proceed with my troubleshooting. Don't want to have to re dump Windows ugh! Do any services regulate net connections to that end? I know I can likely turn off wake on lan and resolve it but two things stop me. 1) it wasn't necessary to be off before and 2) I intend to use wol as my pc is going to double as a media server. Little help here gents
It doesn't take long to re-enable the services you disabled to see what happens. And if necessary, you can disable them again, though it may not be the best idea in any case. Even if disabled services are not the cause of this problem, they could well be of another, future one.
Bios is ruled out. Haven't changed anything in it for literally a couple years now. The services I did re enable quite a few with no luck. Some are pretty vague regarding what they're for as far as file sharing/workgroups/lan related. I'm going to try a complete removal and reinstallation of the lan drivers today and if that doesn't do it I'll give the services one more go. I should have kept track of what I disabled and tested as I went but I always get hasty at the end lol. I've dumped every time I found something broken and adjusted it. This time I thought I was there! End of the night put it to sleep and I almost died! I mean to make a backup but always figure "one more tweak" or "I'm almost done I'll do it when it's done" and it bites me in the rear! Also hoping nothing like disabling uac via registry and removing things like defender/Windows firewall etc can effect it. Looks like another full day of trial and error. Thank you for the replies folks - this is one of the best forums on the net
Ty for the links guys. I did run just the bare power config last wake command and as expected it returned my nic(s). I was unaware you could dig deeper and ascertain any services involved. Tried re enabling all the defaults with no luck (services) so I can only assume it's something else that changed or came with anniversary update. For the time being I checked the "only with magic packet" box which should be amicable assuming the only app I want to wake my pc would be plex and I assume it would send/use a magic packet. Still - I'd love to know the root cause so I may uncheck and go through those links now. I tried unplugging all my usb items as well as rolling back from Intel to MS Ethernet drivers. All to no avail. Wondering if all the tracking/telemetry stuff I uninstalled affected it. I'll see what I can dig up. First time this has happened and I been running Windows 10 since day 1. As always, thanks a bunch!
Well fwiw between all that I was able to find via command line and event viewer - turns out it was the network card (one of them) and that's all the info I could get. After a dumping (to my chagrin) I went down my list of tweaks putting my pc to sleep intermittently. Not sure what "exactly" yet as I've done it every "couple" tweaks to save time but it's definitely caused by something near the bottom of winaero tweaker. If I had to guess - it has an overzealous "disable telemetry" setting which seems to be the potential culprit. Still - this left me dumping AGAIN. Lol. I swear one day I'll have it up n running. (Then I get to break it again trying to update my metadata icons for my iPhone since my 6s and Windows 10 don't seem to be viewed as anything other than a generic image device) Ayeyeye
Yep - it's the telemetry setting in winaero ftr use other means to disable telemetry (tons exist!) So the only two issues I now have are Windows update telling me my early access/version settings need attention in annoying red text Aaaaaand When i restart the pc it says "restarting" but there's no spinning dots anymore. Ugh! Admittedly minor but I'm anal/ocd which is half the reason I spend so much time configuring! Aaaanyways
Try disable LAN WAKE UP?? this will cause kick the computer on from sleep mode.. I believe in BIOS Setup and also may need uncheck WAKE UP LAN on your nic card device properties.
it was the same for me unchecked the wake on lan in my mobo .... and the power configs/sleep the allow wake timers .... turned all of them off, no more problems, check your mouse and or keyboard, if they are wireless ones, they can wake you computer too, had theses problems with my firsts win10 installations, before finding this cause. IE: almost fully discharged battery, had to change them for ones with a power switch ???
he also never mention how old is the computer...old hardware do all kinds of weird things on win10 mostly has to do with old driver issues.
Nah hardware is brand new. 4970k/ocforce/sli 1080 etc. I did check and disable wake timers with no change. Did remove non cordless mouse/kb as well. It was the integrated nics for 100% sure and they were fine until I enabled winaero telemetry disable. Boom would no longer sleep. This time didn't use winaero I used a small exe called disablewintracking and sleeps fine. Not technical enough to know what winaero disables that disablewintracking does not but whatever it is breaks sleep. Thanks for all the replies folks