Doesn't matter which USB 3.0 port is used- EP or Standard.
'Just as a matter of interest are you shutting the computer down & then changing the USB port connections & then powering up again. This will trigger the loading of new drivers if necessary, so that might be worth trying.'
No on that.
This is getting more weird by the minute. Tried to power down, as you recommended, R4, and connected the printer, machine does the same thing- monitor shuts down as it should, then the pc starts to go to sleep as set, but then it restarts. Now, I'm not even getting a 'lastwake' path in 'cmd'!...what the heck's going on here?
SFC /SCANNOW' is good to go... just can't wrap my head around this.
Have a look at this website, there might be a few ideas here worth checking. Particularly the section on network adapters. I noticed a lot of Bluetooth items you have there, so might be worth checking out all of those as well.
How to Fix a Computer that Keeps Waking Up | Gizmo's Freeware
Hello Tim,
I haven't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned.
Have you already tried having the printer connected via Ethernet cable to your network (ex: router) instead of vis USB to see how it does.
Epson WorkForce WF-3640 All-in-One Printer - Product Information - Epson America, Inc.
Thanks for having a look-see, Brink. No, actually I haven't...truthfully, I never crossed my mind. Have to think that out a bit, but first thought makes me wonder how I would have print control at the keyboard then.
The first shot below shows that the keyboard is the only device set up to wake, and it shows the the Intel USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller as device causing the restarts entering into sleep. The 3.0 Root Hub is where the power management is controlled (2nd shot below), and it's set to have the pc shut it down.
Timers are disengaged within PwrOpts_Advcd (3rd shot below).
This HP website lists most of what we have tried, but it might be worth reading through the waking computer from sleep mode section & see if you have looked into all possibilities.
HP PCs - Troubleshooting sleep and hibernate issues (Windows 7) | HP® Customer Support
Thanks, R4...I'll look into that. I uninstalled/reinstalled printer again, but with just the printer and scanner driver, and event manager, thinking that something in one of the 3 other items were streaming something back at machine- but that wouldn't matter if the 3.0 Root Hub were checked to shut down in AdvOpts.
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