Vista Sleep mode problem

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beauparc

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My machine is an Evesham 17" Laptop, Intel Dual core, 2GB RAM, Nvidia graphics, wireless conection to internet. Just plain standard really.

I have it configured to enter Sleep mode, rather than Shutdown, when I've finished for the day and this has always worked perfectly......until last night. I put it to sleep as usual, turned off external power and toddled off to bed. This morning when I came down I found it up and running with not much power left. I switched mains back on and was presented with a message that "Internet Explorer has stopped working." IE was definitely not running last night. As soon as I closed that box, another one appeared saying that Adobe Flash was ready to install an update - clicking OK enabled the update to be installed. Next Paint Shop Pro decided that it also wanted to install an update, and duly did so. I then shut the machine down completely and went off to work.

Booting the machine this evening was uneventful until I tried to view a video on the BBC website. I was then informed that I didn't have the latest version of Flashplayer and invited to download and install it. It would therefore appear that the previous update had actually reversed Flashplayer.

What I hope is that some kind person can tell me is how the machine wakes up from sleep mode all by itself? I've checked BIOS and there is nothing enabled there which would allow an automatic start from sleep. I've also checked my power setting in Control Panel with similar results. Full AV/Trojan scans reveal nothing and the machine is running perfectly. I await the morning with interest.....

Any ideas from anyone will be most gratefully received.
 

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Hi beauparc,

If you wish to find out the reason for a wake from sleep mode,

Start a command prompt, (start menu - enter CMD into search bar and enter), and enter "powercfg -lastwake" without quotes the system should display the last item to cause a wake event.

Hope this helps
 

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Hi there
I have had the same problem but have now fixed it as follows:-
Go to Device Manager - Network adaptors-Right click NVIDIA n force -Properties- Power managemen - Un tick " Allow this device to wake computer"
Hope this works for you.
Cheers Ken.
 

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Thank you all very much for your kind replies which I am slowly working through. It's going to take a long time, I'm sorry to say, for the simple reason that sleep mode has been working flawlessly for the last six months and I think that this was just a "one-off" problem.

Barman58 I tried your suggeston which worked perfectly except that the result I got was the last wake call was tonight - power button - which was correct.

Kenneth Moulton I checked your suggestion and mine is configured correctly.

Brink Working through slowly.

I will post back with any results.

Many thanks again to you all.
 

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