wakes from hibernate by itself at midnight

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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. According to IBM, I have the latest bios and don't need any other updates. I scanned for spyware and trojans and my system is clean. 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?
 
I had the same problem and it turned out to McAfee. Until then I didn't know
a program could wake up from hibernate mode. Check you startup in msconfig.
jeremys said:
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. According to IBM, I have the latest bios and don't need any other
updates. I scanned for spyware and trojans and my system is clean. 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.
 

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