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Laptop wakes up automatically at 1am
I bought this computer used and have totally reformatted and installed Win 7 64bit HP Service Pack 1. My problem started one night when I left the charger plugged-in to this laptop, a dell latitude E5410. I awoke at 1am and found my laptop to be turned on although I shut it down before going to bed.
At 6am, I noticed my laptop was turned on again. I updated the bios from A4 to A10 then to A16 which is the most current. I then entered the bios and looked around then reset it to the default settings.
I then went to my control panel and power options. It is set for high performance. Sleep and Hibernation buttons are disabled. Shut down button is set to shut down when pushed.
I then turned off my laptop and left the charging cable in it. Once again at 1am, I awoke to find my laptop turned on again. I checked my remote settings and it was disabled. I then went to control panel and clicked on services then disabled remote registry, computer browser, netlogon, server, and workstation.
I ran my malwarebytes antimalware pro version for a full scan and also my avg free full scan which is set to scan all files thoroughly including the files without extensions and rootkits. No viruses were found.
I turned off my laptop but this time, I removed the charging cable. That made a difference. I got up at 1am the following morning and the laptop was still turned off. When I then got up again at 6am, my laptop was still turned off.
Thinking I had finally solved my problem, I replugged the charging cable the following night before going to bed and noticed my laptop had once again, turned itself on at 1am.
I've looked all over this latop for anything that might pertain to the power cable but found nothing. Can anyone please tell me why my laptop turns on in the wee hours of every morning when the charging cabled is plugged-in but it does not turn on when the charging cable is removed?