Windows 10: Constant WIFI adapter activity during sleep, then BSOD

Hi everyone,


When my laptop with Windows 10 v1909 build 18363.1256 is plugged in during sleep, it logs about 5 system events per second and thousands of events overnight. This behavior begins as soon as it enters sleep mode. It does NOT occur:

• while sleeping on battery
• while powered on and plugged in
• while powered on and on battery

This has been happening since I received the laptop from our company's MSP in October. I am the first user of this laptop. The MSP doesn't have a solution yet, which is why I am here.


BSODs

When resuming from several hours of plugged in sleep, Windows either BSODs right then or wakes to a freshly booted state. After a fresh boot like this, the system event log confirms that there was an earlier crash. The blue screen is the result of a win32k_power_watchdog_timeout error 0x0000019c from the NT Kernel while the "earlier crash" minidumps reveal a 0x0000014f from PDC.sys and ntoskrnl.exe together. There have been no minidumps generated during battery sleep or normal operation.


Logged events

With a very few exceptions, the events are repeated instances of these four:

• Netwtw08: 7025 - Dump after return from D3 before cmd
• Netwtw08: 7026 - Dump after return from D3 after cmd
• e1dexpress: 27 - IntelR Ethernet Connection 10 I219-V, Network link is disconnected.
• Time-Service: 129 - NtpClient was unable to set a domain peer to use as a time source because of discovery error. NtpClient will try again in 15 minutes and double the reattempt interval thereafter. The error was: The entry is not found. 0x800706E1
  • Occurs every 2-3 seconds despite saying that it's going to wait 15+ minutes
  • I need to be connected to a VPN to reach the domain, so I'm not surprised by this error, just by its frequency

Can anyone explain the hyperactive network activity during sleep?

Is this a common issue? There is definitely a correlation with the crashes, if not causation. I have found many answers for how to keep the network connection active during sleep, but I want to do the opposite. I have set "When my PC is asleep and on battery power, disconnect from the network" to Always. I wish this setting had a twin that forces network disconnect while plugged in, too.


Note also that:

• There are no wake/sleep events in the logs
• powercfg /lastwake returns "Wake History Count - 0"
• powercfg /requests returns "None" across the board
• powercfg /sleepstudy isn't terribly enlightening. It shows that the system was in Modern Standby for 8:03:57 hours until it entered Bugcheck state and there is no detailed information about top offenders during Modern Standby
• There is no outward indication that the laptop isn't sleeping other than it's slightly warm. There are no notification sounds when I receive an email and the cooling fan does not run.
• Early on, I experienced the frozen blurry login screen issue a couple times, forcing a few restarts to unfreeze the laptop. This hasn't happened in at least a month.

I have:

• Updated the BIOS
• Updated the wifi adapter driver
• Rolled back the wifi adapter driver
• Updated other drivers that were recommended
• Run a memory diagnostic from BIOS passed
• Run a GPU diagnostic from BIOS passed
• Changed various sleep/hibernate/power settings, one per day

As none of those have helped, I'm about to run the driver verifier. I may also disable the adapter and try a USB wifi adapter to see what happens, but that's not a long-term solution.


I would love some advice from the community! Has anyone seen anything like this before?


Thank you!

:)

 

Wifi adapter disappears after sleep

Thanks for replying.

@Spirit MS MVP - This is the reason wifi is disabled when the computer goes into sleep mode. When I untick the "Allow computer to turn off the device to save power" and place the computer into sleep mode, the wifi adapter disappears. If i recheck it, and
put the computer to sleep, the wifi adapter does not get uninstalled.

@Andre - First solution does not work because the adapter does not exist and is not listed in the Device Manager.

Second solution doesnt work because the adapter is not listed in Troubleshooting. I tried troubleshooting all adapters and nothing was returned.

Third solution again does not work because the adapter is not there to uninstall.

The wireless driver/adapter disappears after restarting from sleep mode when the adapter's ""Allow computer to turn off device to save power" setting is unchecked.

 

KernelBase.dll is broken constant BSOD's constant game crashing.

Hi Darry,

User Profile corruption is one of the possible reasons why you are experiencing constant BSOD's on your computer. You mentioned that you ran the
System File Checker (SFC) tool, but is still getting a stop code. To further troubleshoot the issue, we suggest that you create a new User Profile and check if the issue persists.

To create a user profile, follow these steps:

• Go to Settings. Click Accounts.
• Select Family & other people.
• Select the Add someone else to this PC tab.
• Name the user as Test.
• Leave the password field blank.
• Hit Next.
• Sign in as Test user.

You may also check this link
to fix BSOD errors. Choose the situation when you experienced the problem and follow the troubleshooting steps.

 

Problems when sharing WiFi with the Virtual Adapter

For many years I have always shared Internet to my devices like phone and tablet with my PC's WiFi antenna through the Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter, I only use it for that, since I have a cable connection, and I start the wifi with the command NETSH WLAN start hostednetwork previously having done the settings of NETSH WLAN set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="Wifi" key="password".

For my devices to connect it is necessary that the Virtual Adapter that is created with that command has access to the Internet, for this I have to share the Internet from my Ethernet adapter to the Virtual Wifi adapter.

For some time now (a couple of months) I've been experiencing problems when sharing the Internet through that medium. The problem is that when I start the WiFi my devices do not connect, they say "Getting IP address" and never connect.

I have found the solution and I have to do the following:

1. Disable the Virtual Adapter with the command netsh wlan stop hostednetwork.
2. Remove the connection sharing from the Ethernet Adapter.
3. Activate the Virtual Adapter with the command netsh wlan start hostednetwork.
4. Adding connection sharing from the Ethernet Adapter to the Virtual Adapter again.

By doing these steps my devices can now be connected to the Wifi, but sometimes it doesn't work if I do these steps too quickly. I have noticed that if I do step 3 and 4 too quickly it does not work and I have to repeat the process but doing these last two steps more slowly, until the Virtual Adapter gets an IP address 192.168.137.1 from Internet Protocol version 4

Also this problem does not occur 100% of the time. Sometimes when I run the command to start the Wifi everything happens fine and my devices connect well but this only works after my PC has been on for at least 5 minutes (I haven't counted it). If I run the command as soon as my PC has turned on then it doesn't work anymore.

As I mentioned before this problem didn't occur before because I had configured a .bat file that ran as soon as the PC was turned on with the NETSH WLAN start hostednetwork command and everything worked fine.

Now, I would like to go back to before when everything was fine so that when my PC starts up the WiFi too and I don't have to do all this protocol all the time, but with a simple command everything is solved.

Could someone give me a hand with this?