Mysterious Sleep Activity in computer Tower

Myself | 12/31/2015 | Me

[Bob434]

Ok got something weird happening, and I'm at a loss what it could be- been researching for days now- thought I had the answer, but today the problem came back again

I use windows 7 Hybrid Sleep, instead of shutting down- and for years it's worked fine- no issues-

As of recently, I'll put the computer into sleep mode, everything does what it's supposed to- computer powers down- tower power button light goes to yellow like it's supposed to and the light on the front of the tower goes out (The HP symbol lights up when tower is working- then off when in sleep mode), and after 20 minutes or so I'll hear the fans spin up in the tower, the power button will turn blue again indicating the machine has awakened, the HP logo will light up, but the monitor is still in sleep mode

This will last awhile, then it will go back into sleep mode- all lights off, fans power down etc-

I do not have automatic updates on and none of my software or programs like flash, adobe, java etc are set to autoupdate, so these can't be the culprit

I turned off network "Wake the computer when...." setting, and all my sleep settings are set to 'never'

Any ideas?

[Bob434]

I am happy to report that thanks to this_ol_patriot’s suggestion, The problem seems to be resolved- I have not had any wake events logged other than when I click the keyboard to wake my computer from sleep as it normally is supposed to do

It was the Norton Internet Security that was causing a wake event which was triggered by something called Wake Source: Timer - Task Scheduler will execute \Remediation\AntimalwareMigrationTask task.

Once I looked this up I found a thread on Norton’s site which showed how to disable this task scheduled event-

It appears that Norton’s is aware of the problem and working on a fix for hteir next update, so I’ll probably just wait until then for the fix- in the meantime I’ll just manually keep disabling the task scheduled events-

Thank you to all who weighed in- and a special thanks to patriot for pointing out what the problem likely was

[bmwcyle]

[Bob434]

thanks a lot, that giff caused an epileptic seizure-