Waking From Sleep ? ? ?

I had this same problem while running under Win 7, and now under Win 8.1 Pro my PC is doing the same thing. It seems to wake up all on its own from "Sleep". I went through the device manager and looked at everything, and nothing but my KB and mouse where set to "Allow this device to wake computer". I set KB to disallow to wake PC, and left just my mouse.

Mobo is an Asus Sabertooth X79

I tried to use this command from both the Admin Command Prompt and PowerShell but basically am told its not a valid command... powercfg –devicequery wake_armed, even though this very command is posted on Ms own tech site for commands.

I used "powercfg -lastwake" which resulted in...

Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 2
Wake Source [0]
Type: Device
Instance Path: PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_1042&SUBSYS_84881043&REV_00\4&15c45f2f&0&00E3
Friendly Name:
Description: ASMedia XHCI Controller
Manufacturer: ASMedia Technology Inc
Wake Source [1]
Type: Device
Instance Path: USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&39f1d5&0
Friendly Name:
Description: USB Root Hub
Manufacturer: (Standard USB Host Controller)
PS C:\Windows\system32> powercfg –devicequery wake_armed
Invalid Parameters -- try "/?" for help
PS C:\Windows\system32>

I would try making the keyboard the only device that is allowed to wake the computer. Because your mouse works by detecting motion, it is far more likely to send a false signal and wake up the computer than your keyboard.

That seems to have fixed the problem, but now the stupid thing won't go to sleep on its own when it hits the set time of 1 hour, I have to manually put it to sleep every time. I've even went throughthe task manager and killed anything that might be keeping the desktop active

HC1Gunner said:

That seems to have fixed the problem, but now the stupid thing won't go to sleep on its own when it hits the set time of 1 hour, I have to manually put it to sleep every time. I've even went through the task manager and killed anything that might be keeping the desktop active

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Sorry to say ... Welcome to the club ...

http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/28226-windows-8-1-refuses-sleep.html