Windows 10: Windows 10 rebooting after waking from sleep with WOL magic packet

Hi there

I've been looking around various places on the internet to try and find a solution to this problem but none have presented one yet so I thought I'd try here to see if anyone has encountered a similar one.

For years I have been using sleep mode in Windows 10 and waking it up either with WOL magic packets or from USB keyboard/mouse. But recently it has stopped successfully waking up and instead sits on a black screen for a few minutes and then forcibly reboots itself.

I have not added any new hardware recently other than a new PSU (Corsair CX750) but resume from sleep did work successfully for a while even after installation of this so I do not believe this is the issue. So far I have tried:

Disabling Windows fast start up.
Disable hibernation (was never on anyway).
Disabling eco mode for NIC.
Disabling power saving modes in BIOS
Updating BIOS (this did seem to temporarily solve it but then it reappeared)
Updating Windows.
Updating GPU drivers (Geforce 970).
Rolling back to older GPU drivers (also temporarily solved it but then reappeared)

I'm quite stumped. Does anyone have any ideas for things I haven't tried yet?

Thanks in advance

slick

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Computer wakes on LAN, even if Magic Packet is enabled


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I'm using Asrock Z87 Pro motherboard with onboard Intel I217-V network adapter. For few years I was running Windows 8, and had configured computer to wake only on Magic Packet being received on port 9 - everything worked flawless.

Recently I made fresh installation of Windows 10, installed all manufacturer's drivers, configured network adapter as before (wake on LAN only on Magic Packet), also disabled all other wake timers - everything is set as before. But now computer keeps waking up at random moments around 30min to 1hour after being put to sleep and "powercfg -lastwake" shows that it's the ethernet module that wakes computer up, although it's set to wake from only Magic Packet. What the hell? *Sad

I also checked my router log files - only magic packets being sent are from my phone when I genuienly needed to wake up PC. Also I don't want to disable WOL functionality altogether, because it's very convenient to remotely wake and access home PC.

Could someone suggest what to try next?

 

Possible to wake PC w/o Magic Packet...w/o unwanted wakes?


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Is this possible?

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Windows 10 will not sleep and wakes from sleep

Thanks for the suggestion, i forgot to mention this is something i have already tried.

I have tried setting it to magic packet only, and when that failed i completely disabled WOL.