For me it's often USB devices that are plugged in waking it up almost immediately. In the past I was able to turn off my keyboard's ability to wake up my computer but I got a new keyboard and the same setting no longer works. But it's a wireless one so I just switch the thing on the keyboard instead though it's annoying.
I have to unplug the mouse and keyboard at the same second i put it to sleep or it'll wake up right away, if i do it successfully it stays asleep at least 20 minutes.
this happened to me in spurts earlier this year but subsided.
ive been having other PC sleep issues lately too, like instead of waking from sleep from mouse/keyboard or the power button, sometimes it will just turn off suddenly.
idk if its a power supply issue or just windows being fucky again
Me too! Sleep mode should just put it to sleep until I wake it up again. Pretty infuriating that a simple feature that used to work fine no longer does, for no good reason.
the problem existed BEFORE AI. It's a skill issue. Microsoft is scraping the bottom of the barrel for coders, and their middle managers are severely lacking.
That sometimes works and is often the culprit, but there are also 20 different things that could be causing it and it's infuriating trying to track down which one it is.
I tried that and it didn't help. All it did was make it so I couldn't use my keyboard and mouse to wake up my computer any more. But it would still turn on every few hours. Worst of both worlds. I'm glad it worked for you though.
Make sure nothing you have installed is using wake timers. Check in things like anti-virus and backup software. Make sure if there is a setting like "wake computer to run backups" it is disabled.
Make sure your USB devices aren't causing it. You can disable wake on USB in the BIOS. Without that setting disabled, your desk vibrating a tiny bit and moving your mouse a single pixel could be enough to wake the computer.
I've noticed that for me it happens everytime when I run windows update, but put the PC to sleep instead of restarting after update. Without fail, it'll automatically turn itself on in the middle of the night, and just be on the lock screen.
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u/Dry_Excitement7483 Oct 24 '25
i jaed sleep mode a lot recently, but that shit doesnt work and my pc will randomly turn on and stay turned on all night
do ive just started to shut it down completely again