Windows immediately comes out of sleep mode

Out of nowhere I started having problems with my machine staying in Sleep Mode. I would select the Sleep button, the machine would power down, then immediately start right back up even though I hadn’t touched the keyboard or clicked the mouse. It hasn’t had this sort of problem before, so what the devil is wrong? I started searching and found all sorts of wild ideas to try such as turning off the Power Management for the keyboard, mouse and network card. Those, sound like reasonable ideas, but the likelihood of that being the real culprit is slim to none. One thing I did learn was a neat command called: powercfg -lastwake Once the machine goes to sleep and then wakes again, you run that command to note what device caused the machine to wake up. Alright, now we’re getting somewhere. Some solid troubleshooting not just randomly clicking power management buttons. Here’s the output of what I got: C:\Users\>powercfg -lastwake […]

Windows 7: Network problem after sleep mode

Yet another glitch for Windows 7. Seems every time the machine tries to come out of sleep mode there is no Network available. And apparently I’m not the only one having this issue. The Internet is riddled with this problem. I was ready to unleash my venom on Windows 7 for its ridiculous behavior but my buddy Theo talked me down. After giving me a cold towel and a Mountain Dew, I have to agree, I can’t blame Windows 7 for this one, at least not completely. It seems Windows 7 and my RealTek onboard network card aren’t quite getting along or they have quite figured out how to talk to each other correctly. A pretty big blunder since Windows 7 is the predominant OS and RealTek is the predominant onboard network manufacturer. Nothing like a well oiled machine. But anyway, the fix is simple. Open Device Manager (Control Panel – Hardware – Device Manager) Click the Network Adapter, right-click […]