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PC Wakes Up By Itself

by Feb 26, 2014 2:22AM PST

I often put my Dell Vostro to the sleep mode before I call off for the day. I notice the pc wakes up by itself in a mid-night. That is very strange to me. I can't explain a reason other than someone hacks into my pc. Any other explanation?

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by Wei725 Feb 26, 2014 2:29AM PST

The OS is Window 7 Professional

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Many reasons.
by Forum moderator Feb 26, 2014 3:18AM PST

Dell's (and other PCs) can have a wake up in the BIOS, there is Wake On Lan settings and then in some setups we can have a scheduled wake to run updates.

It does not mean much most of the time. As you own your PC you may have to do more research about the usual wake up calls.
Bob

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Thanks for your information, Bob.
by Wei725 Feb 26, 2014 6:26AM PST

I will take a look at Wake-on-Lan

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wake up on lan
by 100thbill Mar 3, 2014 12:03PM PST

I had this problem and one day I was in the room with the pc off, the phone rang and the pc came on. I refigured wake on lan and the problem was fixed.

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Programming problem
by Mar 29, 2014 11:47PM PDT

If you had set up the program to wake up mode with an regular timer this would be also an issue to make out the isse

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