Question Waking from sleep

[CaptainHowdy44]

Help! My pc keeps waking from sleep! I did the wake check using cmd and it returned with 0 which can't be correct because I just watched it light up with the fans coming on several times in the last couple hours. I don't recall this being an issue until a few month ago when I walked into the room and saw it light up for a few seconds to mb a minute before going back to sleep so it's possible it's always done this and I just wasn't in the room during the few seconds it comes back on. I've unplugged everything but the power cord and that has only extended the time between the brief power ups so now instead of powering back up every 1.5-3 minutes like it was this morning it's doing so every 10-20 minutes. Previously I only noticed it coming back on occasionally, nowhere near as frequent as today.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

You've posted this thread in the Windows 11 section, if that wasn't in err, please mention the version(not edition) for your OS.

As for your predicament, can you see if disabling your NIC and/or your wireless adapter helps alleviates your issue?

 

[bill001g]

Microsoft likes to hide things but there should be a "sleep" mode that is called hibernate. With hibernate the machine is almost the same as powered off. It has saved the memory to disk. You can actually turn off the power switch.....that is one way to prevent it from waking up. The downside is it takes a couple more seconds than normal sleep to wake up but since it seem you are doing this when you are not going to use the computer for a number of hours it might be better than the normal sleep option.

Note I think stuff can wake the pc even in hibernate mode when you are using the BIOS option that allow various types of network traffic to wake the machine. I still have not 100% figured this mess out since windows seem to be able to change these bios setting on some machines. You though completely disable it so network traffic of any kind will not wake the machine.
I was actually trying to get wake on lan to function when i discovered this mess.

 

[CaptainHowdy44]

Microsoft likes to hide things but there should be a "sleep" mode that is called hibernate. With hibernate the machine is almost the same as powered off. It has saved the memory to disk. You can actually turn off the power switch.....that is one way to prevent it from waking up. The downside is it takes a couple more seconds than normal sleep to wake up but since it seem you are doing this when you are not going to use the computer for a number of hours it might be better than the normal sleep option.

Note I think stuff can wake the pc even in hibernate mode when you are using the BIOS option that allow various types of network traffic to wake the machine. I still have not 100% figured this mess out since windows seem to be able to change these bios setting on some machines. You though completely disable it so network traffic of any kind will not wake the machine.
I was actually trying to get wake on lan to function when i discovered this mess.

I tried to bind hibernate to the power button and with a timer/auto because I prefer hibernate as well but since win 11 it only gives me the option to bind sleep or power to the button and timer/auto. Out in the sys menu it says "sleep, hibernate, or power" but when I click into the screen the hibernate option mentioned in the outer menu, is not present, only sleep and power. I've found several sections and options to be flat out missing from my menus (at least according to troubleshooting guides when I follow the menu and get dead ended because an option or entire pages/sections are missing from my menus). I can't escape the impression that windows 11 was very poorly done. I've even done repair installs and still I'm missing menu sections and options that should be present. Even my options in whatever god awful bios this thing has (some corner cutting garbage) seem to be severely lacking and limited. Lol... I better stop... the annoyance and frustration is carrying over into my writing...

 

[CaptainHowdy44]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

You've posted this thread in the Windows 11 section, if that wasn't in err, please mention the version(not edition) for your OS.

As for your predicament, can you see if disabling your NIC and/or your wireless adapter helps alleviates your issue?

The pc is an Alienware R14 I scooped up on a massive sale. I didn't build this time around and wasn't too concerned with components outside the processor and graphics so I can't speak with 100% certainty whats in this thing. I've included what I could find from dells website for this model and msinfo.
I should have mentioned too that when it was waking before and the fan/pc lights would come back on, that the display remained inactive.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800
CPU Cooler: Alienware liquid. No idea beyond that.
Motherboard: Alienware OK9TKY version A01
Ram: 16 gigs
SSD: 1TB
GPU: AMD Radeon 6700 XT

PSU: don't know because another issue I'm having with windows 11 is tabs/sections missing from settings and it's sub menus. Msinfo is currently showing no "power" section under "components". The "about" option in settings/system is also missing so I had to use search and type msinfo32 to open the info. There's several other areas I've noticed missing as I've tried followed troubleshooting guides for other issues but that's for another help request, another time.

Chassis: Alienware?
OS: Windows 11 24H2
Monitor: Varies. Sometimes a Samsung 4k gaming monitor via display port, other times I plug it into my TV which is a 4k Hisense via HDMI

When getting this out of msinfo I noticed something about a VTSIO system timer error under "problem devices" stating that the device can't find enough free resources. No idea what that even is.

I disabled the network adapter and sent the pc into sleep. The pc lights and fan stayed on for a few minutes before shutting off where it's usually only a few seconds, not sure what that was about, and it did come back out of sleep, with the fan and pc lighting active, but the display still dark. It varies and is random but there's roughly two minutes of sleep (1m 44s, 2m 11s, 1m 57s etc) before briefly waking again. I have the usuals plugged back in: mouse, keyboard, ethernet, hdmi.