waking from suspend for unknown reason

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  1. Posts : 623
    vista x64/ win 7 x64
       #11

    powercfg -wake_armed

    after that disarm all devices listed, usually its mouse and keyboard

    powercfg -DEVICEDISABLEWAKE devicename

    personally i soldered a extension wire to the powerbutton on the motherboard and put a little pushbutton on my desk.

    I've set powerbutton to Sleep. So when i leave my desk i push the button, after i return i push it again.
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  2. feh
    Posts : 13
    Windows 7 RC 7100
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       #12

    It turns out that the program mcupdate_scheduled is what's waking the machine. Is that the process that downloads the program guide, or something else?

    I would think the machine would resuming sleeping after that task, but apparently not. Anybody know what I need to configure to get the machine to sleep after that task completes?

    Thanks.
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  3. Posts : 623
    vista x64/ win 7 x64
       #13

    feh said:
    It turns out that the program mcupdate_scheduled is what's waking the machine. Is that the process that downloads the program guide, or something else?

    I would think the machine would resuming sleeping after that task, but apparently not. Anybody know what I need to configure to get the machine to sleep after that task completes?

    Thanks.
    change the schedule of the updater to update during a time you usually use the computer.
    or you can set a task in taskscheduler. Set it to force sleep at a certain hour.
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  4. Posts : 627
    Windows 7 7600.16384 x64
       #14

    Last thing to check, and probably the least, is see if your BIOS is set to wake at an alarm time. This is probably not it, but wanted to throw it out there. Just something to check.
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  5. feh
    Posts : 13
    Windows 7 RC 7100
    Thread Starter
       #15

    petrossa said:
    change the schedule of the updater to update during a time you usually use the computer.
    or you can set a task in taskscheduler. Set it to force sleep at a certain hour.
    Yeah, I can do that, as a workaround.

    But, this seems to be a bug. The machine should go back to sleep after updating the schedule (if that's what it's doing).

    Is this a MS-sponsored board? Are there MS engineers reading this? If so - please fix this.
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  6. Posts : 623
    vista x64/ win 7 x64
       #16

    It's an issue since way back. it seems it's too much work to really fix and is not high on the annoyance list.
    I have a lot of tasks which close other tasks and put the computer back to sleep. When i do the computer cleaning at nite. If not my wife wakes up, and just pulls the plug
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  7. Posts : 627
    Windows 7 7600.16384 x64
       #17

    feh said:
    It turns out that the program mcupdate_scheduled is what's waking the machine. Is that the process that downloads the program guide, or something else?

    I would think the machine would resuming sleeping after that task, but apparently not. Anybody know what I need to configure to get the machine to sleep after that task completes?

    Thanks.

    This is for the ehome service right? For media center? I have media center setup on my TV, main PC, and home theater. My sleeps fine on all 3 of my machines. If you do not use the Media Center service you can always stop it from starting, but it should be sleeping after it updates. If you do use the media center, maybe check the box to "run optimizations" in the media center options, forcing it to refresh it's services at a specific time?

    What you have going on is not normal, nor have I ever experienced it on Windows Media Center 2005, Vista, Or Windows 7, and that is how I have been watching TV since. My machine has never woken up to update, only to record, then if it saw it had a network connection it would update.
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