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Vista Hibernation Issue: Computer turns itself back on.

Feb 6, 2007 12:18PM PST

My computer successfully goes into Hibernation with Vista Ultimate, but about 3 seconds later, turns itself back on and recovers fine. No yellow exclamation points in device manager.
Asus P5AD2-E Premium
2 gigs of Ram
P4 3.4GHz
ATI All-in-Wonder X600 Pro PCI-E
Using audio built into motherboard
Using built in networking on motherboard
No other PCI or PCI-E cards

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Vista Hibernation Issue: Computer turns itself back on.
Feb 8, 2007 6:26AM PST

I get something similar:
Windows Vista Home Premium running on an ASUS P4P800-X 1g of ram won't hibernate when it set up to and I force it (button on keyboard) it resumes windows right away and then takes 2 minutes( I times it) Playing with the hard drive. It's consistant I tried it a few times.
The whole thing works perfectly well with XP.

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astala vista, baby
Feb 8, 2007 7:12AM PST

i beleive it has to do with the mobo bios, check your mobo manufacturer website for a bios update...

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Hibernation problem
Feb 8, 2007 11:10PM PST

mobo bios? don't know what that means but I did update to the latest BIOS from ASUS web site and it didn't change anything.
Once it went into hibernation all by itself(it normally doesn't and pops right back up when I try to force it with the sleep button on my keyboard that works perfectly well under XP) and I had a hard time bringing it back out. Had to hold the power off button for several seconds (unlike just a tap with XP) and it then took as long as it takes to boot up from a power off situation.
I have a watt meter monitoring my PC and while it was supposedly hibernating it was sitting at 128 watts the PC normally runs around 140 watts +/-30 watts.
When under XP hibernation brings the wattage to under 10 watts.
Overall in a 24 hours period XP uses 1.96 kw/h while Vista uses 3.29 Kw/h not very environment friendly is it!

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Network Card Restarts Computer
Nov 9, 2007 12:09AM PST

Network card must have "allow this device to wake computer" DISABLED or the compueter will restart as result of LAN activity !

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Network Card Restarts Computer
Jan 2, 2010 5:24AM PST

Thank you very much.

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Success!
Feb 20, 2010 6:56PM PST

Yes, many thanks - my brand new XP computer was also starting itself out of hibernation, updated the network card (under hardware in the control panel) and is now fine. Was a pretty dumb default, in my view!

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Or enable Only allow management stations to wake...
Aug 9, 2014 4:35AM PDT

I was having this same problem with a Vista based PC that our son gave us. I found that the problem is solved by either disabling (un-checking) "Allow this device to wake computer." or by leaving "Allow this device to wake computer" enabled and enabling "Only allow management stations to wake the computer." as well.

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Problem with turning on after hibernation in vista x64..
Nov 29, 2007 10:39PM PST

Hi! I've exactly the same problem: after I hibernate my vista x64 (nevrmind if from the windows menu, or bythe computer power button), my comp turns on right after a second!
What could be the problem??!

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What I find is that...
Nov 29, 2007 11:42PM PST

The maker of the PC hasn't completed their drivers for vista x64. There is some thought that Microsoft should supply drivers but MS doesn't make the hardware.

Report this to the machine's maker.

Bob

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problem with vista x64 hibernation..
Nov 30, 2007 12:19AM PST

Hi to all!
I think that the problem was solved,
I turned all the "wake up" events in bios (some were turned on), and verything returned to normal (needs a little bit more checking though..)..

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Advanced Power Options Settings
Feb 24, 2010 11:56PM PST

Hello!,
There is a setting in advanced power options of windows 7 which is called "Allow wake up timers" and its under the "Sleep" dropdown menu. Disable both in "allow wake timers" if its enabled. Worked for me... Hope it works for you!

- Controll Pannel
- Power options
- Change plan settings(for your currently selected plan or make a custom plan then go to it again and then goto the plan and select change plan settings)
- Change advanced settings
- Go to "sleep" and expand the menu
- Go to "Allow wake timers" and expand
- Click the word "enable" then dropdown and select "Disable" on both options if not already disabled
- Click "Apply" then Click "OK"
- Click "Cancel" on next window then exit all windows
- Reboot

Hope this helps!
Can someone please if you have time post this to other forums of your choice in regards to this.
Thanks!

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Advanced Power Options Settings
Jul 1, 2010 6:32AM PDT

I think I have the same problem. When I put my computer to sleep, it wakes up at random times between 1 and 60 seconds. Also, when I go to 'Advanced Power Options' and I exand the menu 'sleep', the only thing there is the option to change when the computer sleeps.