> Saurabh Tendulkar wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to troubleshoot why my pc comes out of hibernate. It seems >> like some of the times this happens correspond to cron jobs. Is it >> possible that cron could be (one of) the culprit(s) here? If so, is >> there a way to prevent cron from waking up the computer? Thank you. >> >> saurabh >> Danilo Turina wrote on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:50 AM: > Some time ago, it happened to me that my PC came out of hibernate > without no apparent reason. > > Initially I though that someone, accidentally, hit the keyboard > causing the resume of the PC, but after disabling keyboard switch on, > the problem persisted. > > I then discovered that my network card was configured to wake up the > PC when receiving certain kind of packets. Disabling that feature did > the job.
Many BIOSs can wake up the computer at specific times. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember having had a BIOS that that mentioned something like waking up when receiving something from the network, so you might also look for that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/