Hardware PC randomly waking up

[SjorsMaster]

So I recently got this desktop PC and pretty much installed every steam game I got on it.
But for the past 3 weeks now, it randomly wakes from sleep.
You might ask yourself "why would he put it into sleep?"
Well, I have a Steam link set up so I can play on my tv, With it I am able to wake my computer and put it back to sleep once i'm done.

So I've done some research and looked for the last wake in command prompt, It said Unkown source.
I was looking into the boot options of my pc, they looked all fine to me.
What I did then was remove the wake feature from the mouse and keyboard in device mannager.

It didn't help a thing.

So next what I did was disable waking from the internet/lan,
Which made it actually stop waking up, However now the Steam Link can't wake it..

Now i'm with the question, how do I set it up so it only listens to the Steam link?
And what could be the source, a program?

Before it all happened I had rainway recently installed,
Don't know if it has to do anything with it but i'm putting it here anyway.
I did uninstall it so it so I dont think it's the source but you never know.

Thanks for the help in advance.


-Sjors

 

[DKB]

possessed

destroy it now

Edit: but being serious, you might want to try putting this into a command line:

powercfg –lastwake

and if that don't work, try this next one which might give you a more detailed look

powercfg –devicequery wake_armed

 

[SjorsMaster]

possessed

destroy it now

I knew it!
TIME TO DIE DEVILISH MACHINE!

Edit: but being serious, you might want to try putting this into a command line:

powercfg –devicequery wake_armed

What does it do exactly, It gave me this as output:

C:\Windows\System32>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
HID Keyboard Device
HID-compliant mouse (001)
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

 

[DKB]

I knew it!



What does it do exactly, It gave me this as output:

C:\Windows\System32>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
HID Keyboard Device
HID-compliant mouse (001)
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

Basically it's telling you what the last things that were used to wake your computer. So, there, it was your keyboard, then your mouse, and then a PCIe GBE controller. Which is your LAN I believe?

Oh, you should also take a look at your power options, the advanced window. Because sometimes there's timed tasks which randomly turn on your computer, had a annoying issue just like this before.

 

[SjorsMaster]

Basically it's telling you what the last things that were used to wake your computer. So, there, it was your keyboard, then your mouse, and then a PCIe GBE controller. Which is your LAN I believe?

Oh, you should also take a look at your power options, the advanced window. Because sometimes there's timed tasks which randomly turn on your computer, had a annoying issue just like this before.

Alright thanks, I’ll have to look into it later today though as I need to be at school right now xD

Thanks for the quick response, you’ll hear from me later!

 

[SjorsMaster]

I turned on magic packet, this stopped it from randomly waking up. Don’t know what it exactly is or what it does but it works with my steam link.

 

[Originality]

Magic packet means that instead of waking up to any packet directed at your IP, it will only wake up to a packet containing 6xFF followed by your MAC address 16 times.

Nothing special, just a logical pattern that makes it “magic”.

 

[SjorsMaster]

Magic packet means that instead of waking up to any packet directed at your IP, it will only wake up to a packet containing 6xFF followed by your MAC address 16 times.

Nothing special, just a logical pattern that makes it “magic”.

Cool didn't know that, I wonder why 16 times though, why not just once lol.
I feel like a wizard already xD

@Staff you guys can close this one, Problem got solved.