Laptop has Insomnia

[FiOS Dave]

If I tell my laptop to sleep, it wakes up instantly.
I've checked all the power settings under the control panel
and they are set properly. This happens with lid close,
Start/Sleep, or power button press. What am I missing???

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Galen]

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If I tell my laptop to sleep, it wakes up instantly.
I've checked all the power settings under the control panel
and they are set properly. This happens with lid close,
Start/Sleep, or power button press. What am I missing???

Thanks,

Dave

Want to take a stab in the dark? Head into the BIOS/CMOS settings and see if
you can disable the touch pad. I just replaced a buddy's for having had
pretty much that same issue but his was more of an, "I don't want it to do
that any more." It didn't really matter because he leaves it home sitting on
his desk and plugged in all the time but he wanted it replaced. It was an
older HP dv5000 and a pain to replace honestly.

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[Michael Walraven]

You might get a clue as to what is restarting your computer by running the
command powercfg -lastwake at a command prompt.
On my Vista home premium machine my results are:

C:\Users\Walraven>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Device
Instance Path: ACPI\PNP0303\4&128ccd99&0
Friendly Name:
Description: Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Manufacturer: (Standard keyboards)

Showing that my last wakeup was caused by my touching a key on the keyboard.

Michael

 

[FiOS Dave]

Hi Galen,

My laptop is an HP 9000 series and has the ability to disable the
touchpad from the keyboard. I usually have it disabled, as I use a
cordless mouse in its place. Looks like I'll have to "stab" somewhere else!

Thanks,
Dave

 

[FiOS Dave]

Hi Michael,

I'll have to try that the next time I attempt a sleep mode,
as I just checked and all I got was history count - 0.

I just forced a sleep by using Fnc F5, and when I checked,
I still get history count - 0.

I wonder if maybe I have Wake-on-LAN active -- maybe
that's what's doing it. I'll report back after I check the BIOS.

Thanks,
Dave

You might get a clue as to what is restarting your computer by running the
command powercfg -lastwake at a command prompt.
On my Vista home premium machine my results are:

C:\Users\Walraven>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Device
Instance Path: ACPI\PNP0303\4&128ccd99&0
Friendly Name:
Description: Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Manufacturer: (Standard keyboards)

Showing that my last wakeup was caused by my touching a key on the
keyboard.

Michael

If I tell my laptop to sleep, it wakes up instantly.
I've checked all the power settings under the control panel
and they are set properly. This happens with lid close,
Start/Sleep, or power button press. What am I missing???

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Halexi]

See this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927821