wakes automatically from hibernate at midnight

[Guest]

This is the most aggravating thing ever, and I can't seem to find the culprit

First of all, it's a new X40. It doesn't start every night. Maybe a week or several days after not using it. It seems to come on at the stroke of midnight when it does come on. As far as I know, it's just when hibernating.

I have disabled "start on fax", "start on lan" settings in the bios and any control panels I could find. There are no scheduled tasks. There are no alarms scheduled. I even turned off windows update and ibm update services. I've turned off dozens of services trying to figure out what's wrong. I've scanned for viruses, spyware and trojans...all clean. According to IBM, I have the latest bios and don't need any other updates. IBM software support seems to have no clue what to do

It must be a software problem if it starts on the hour at midnight, right? So then it can't be a hardware issue.

I'm doing a factory reinstall of the operating system now, but who knows if that will help

Does anyone have any idea what it could be?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Open your Device Manager, right-click on your Network Adapter and
select Properties. Click on the Power Management tab and
uncheck "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby".

Troubleshooting Standby & Hibernate Issues in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_standby.htm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| This is the most aggravating thing ever, and I can't seem to find the culprit.
|
| First of all, it's a new X40. It doesn't start every night. Maybe a week or several days after not using
it. It seems to come on at the stroke of midnight when it does come on. As far as I know, it's just when
hibernating.
|
| I have disabled "start on fax", "start on lan" settings in the bios and any control panels I could find.
There are no scheduled tasks. There are no alarms scheduled. I even turned off windows update and ibm update
services. I've turned off dozens of services trying to figure out what's wrong. I've scanned for viruses,
spyware and trojans...all clean. According to IBM, I have the latest bios and don't need any other updates.
IBM software support seems to have no clue what to do.
|
| It must be a software problem if it starts on the hour at midnight, right? So then it can't be a hardware
issue.
|
| I'm doing a factory reinstall of the operating system now, but who knows if that will help.
|
| Does anyone have any idea what it could be?

 

[Guest]

it's not checked to begin with. unfortunately, i have to ask...any other suggestions?

 

[joust in jest]

A stab in the dark....

Right-click on the time display in lower left of taskbar.
Click "Adjust Date/Time"
Select "Internet Time" tab
Is "Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server" checked?

steve

This is the most aggravating thing ever, and I can't seem to find the culprit.

First of all, it's a new X40. It doesn't start every night. Maybe a week

or several days after not using it. It seems to come on at the stroke of
midnight when it does come on. As far as I know, it's just when
hibernating.

I have disabled "start on fax", "start on lan" settings in the bios and

any control panels I could find. There are no scheduled tasks. There are
no alarms scheduled. I even turned off windows update and ibm update
services. I've turned off dozens of services trying to figure out what's
wrong. I've scanned for viruses, spyware and trojans...all clean.
According to IBM, I have the latest bios and don't need any other updates.
IBM software support seems to have no clue what to do.

It must be a software problem if it starts on the hour at midnight, right?

So then it can't be a hardware issue.