Timeline for Computer wakes by itself, but wake source is unknown
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| Mar 24, 2023 at 11:20 | comment | added | uNople | Hard shutting down fixed my issue temporarily too, I don't have a dell, I have an old i7 desktop, with a gigabyte motherboard. Most of the USB ports on the motherboard have karked it, so there's definitely issues there. Same symptoms and fix though, sleep and it wakes immediately, shut it down, and the pc starts right back up again. Held the power button down until it shut down fully, had to do three times before it would stay shut down. After starting it back up again, the pc sleeps again. | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 15:28 | comment | added | DocWeird | In 2023 and my Dell Latitude 5510 (around 2 years old) had this problem. It would instantly wake after putting it to sleep manually. Disabling these in the wifi card drivers made it sleep for the first time since new. | |
| Aug 15, 2019 at 0:54 | comment | added | Simon E. | I had a slightly different issue with my Dell XPS 13 laptop on Windows 10 - I think it would sleep but refused to hibernate. I fixed that by resetting the RTC. Steps are described here. Maybe that might help some people's sleep issues too. | |
| Jan 8, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | alex.forencich | 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. | |
| Jan 8, 2017 at 13:15 | comment | added | Patrick | 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. | |
| S Nov 10, 2016 at 8:55 | history | suggested | Peanut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 22:34 | comment | added | alex.forencich | It's like a petulant little kid - "but I don't wanna go to sleep!" | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 22:06 | comment | added | deadalnix | Same problem also a dell xps15 . I'm mildly amused. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | Yannick Smits | I have the same problem with my Dell XPS 15 9550 since last night. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 19:59 | history | edited | alex.forencich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 4, 2016 at 8:22 | history | answered | alex.forencich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |