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I have the same problem with my Dell XPS 15 9550 since last night.
– Yannick Smits
Commented Jun 28, 2016 at 11:27
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Same problem also a dell xps15 . I'm mildly amused.
– deadalnix
Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 22:06
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It's like a petulant little kid - "but I don't wanna go to sleep!"
– alex.forencich
Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 22:34
This sounds like a behavior caused by botnet malware. Often botnet malware will wake up the computer from sleep to do things like download instructions, route traffic, connect to other machines on the botnet, etc.
– Patrick
Commented Jan 8, 2017 at 13:15
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How would it wake up the computer if not via sleep timers or whatever? Besides, it has been doing this since it came out of the box, so unless it was pre-installed with malware from Dell, this is unlikely.
– alex.forencich
Commented Jan 8, 2017 at 18:06

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