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Saturday, August 29, 2009

The mysterious case of my PC waking up by itself from Hibernation

Since I installed Windows 7 Ultimate my P1610 was waking up from Hibernation by itself every morning at 8:05 AM. After few hours of research in the web I found that the cause of the problem was Media Center. The problem is that most of time at that time my P1610 is in it's case and without a proper ventilation it was getting extremely hot. Something really no good for the CPU. The solution, in the device manager, task scheduler (see picture).

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Unchecking the option to Wake the Computers to run this task, probably is enough to fix this issue. In my case I'm not recording anything in Media Center, so I disabled the task. A drastic decision that put end to the Mystery that was jeopardizing the integrity of my lovely P1610. Tongue out

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Frank, so that's why - I found that happening a couple of times as as well on some of my machines running Windows 7, good to know there is a solution. It's a bit odd though how can W7 can start the machine from Hibernation...

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  2. I have been asking all my friends and like me, all of them were under the impression that a machine could not wake by itself from hibernation but the really is that they do it, at least if they are using Windows 7.

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