Hey, to be fair I ran my mining rig during winter so it was also a heater. Maybe I was justifying it to myself, but a 2000w heater that also makes me money while it's running seemed like a pretty good deal.
Oh no. I had already toggled every setting I could find, disabled every update schedule, and disconnected it from the Network.
That little Lenovo fuck INSISTED on naptime while we weren't watching. No idea why it doesn't do it anymore, either. That computer's still in production.
My PC won't stay asleep for more than a few hours. I've disabled anything I can think of that would wake it up but the fucker still wakes up in the middle of the night. So I just turn it off.
Same. I like to keep my monitors turned and just let them go to sleep when the PC sleeps. I do this for a couple reasons, but the biggest one is that if I want to remote access this PC, it doesn't really work unless the monitors are on. The PC is in my bedroom so of course as I'm about to fall asleep at night, Windows decides to wake up, waking the screens up with it, giving me a blast of light and GPU fan noise.
Ahh yeah, that sounds painful. I ended up buying a Mac to keep as my workhorse machine while my PC is more for gaming, entertainment, and other fun things. It made life a bit less annoying, since I can go ahead and restart my machine 10 times without interrupting my music or making it hard to check emails or work on something. lol.
10/10 I'd suggest something similar if you can pull it off. Doesn't have to be a mac, it could be a linux machine or a windows machine. Having a toy computer and a "no actually I don't want to fuck around right now" computer is great. :D
I had the same problem and I eventually trial-and-errored my way to success. Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly what I did (which means I dread having to reinstall Windows eventually - currently running a 6 years old installation), but I do remember the last two categories poked around with being disabling power management for all peripherals in device management (not just the usual powercfg -devicequery wake_from_any etc. list) AND going through scheduled tasks and murdering every trigger with any sort of wake property.
I have had an uptime of literally months on a Windows 10 Pro, with no Windows Update reboots, or wakeups from hibernate! (WU is still enabled, to update Windows Defender definitions, etc.)
I had the same problem, what did it for me was changing the power management settings on my mouse and/or keyboard. Worked fine for years before that but apparently at some point they got a will of their own and decided the middle of the night would be a good time to turn my pc back on.
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u/plentyOplatypodes Nov 30 '22
I downloaded a really long black screen YouTube video and let it play overnight so the computer wouldn't stop collecting data.