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PC wakes up randomly and sometimes logs in after being put to sleep (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Built a gaming PC back in 2018 (windows 10, GTX1080, i7, eset security).

For the past year or so it wakes up every now and then and for a few months it started waking up to my logged in desktop screen. Hasnt happened for about a month or so but it still eakes up even with my mouse and keyboard disconnected. I don't do any tormenting or anything sketchy. It's a really clean machine built for gaming, YouTube, office work stuff. I don't visit any "low brow" sites (that's what my tablet (not connected to the PC) is for). It didn't start happening after any specific download that I can remember.

Anyway, I can't find anything relevant online that helps me so I figured I'd ask here if anyone knows what this is about.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Some more ideas:

Windows update appears to have a a way to log you back into you latest session
BIOS power on after power loss setting, you might experience brownouts
check task scheduler (taskschd.msc) for any entries that have permissions to turn on the system
check the system or windows event logs for any mentions of reboot during nighttime
disconnect ethernet cable for debugging purposes
get a surge protector power strip with a switch