Spontaneous running after the Vista upgrade

I have a portable dv2000t PC (EQ883AV) that I bought in 2006.  It has a "Vista Capable" sticker on it.

I won't bore everyone with details as to why, but my situation demanded a new installation of Vista Home Premium.

Everything went well except that when my laptop is put into Hibernate it lights up spontaneously after several hours.

I scoured the forums here and google around but you haven't found someone else who has had this problem.

Has anyone ever heard talk about this?

Thank you

Bill...

Google-ing a little more and I found an answer to this embarrassing problem.

First, a little more in detail about my specific problem and some problem reports I found there in the ether.

When I'm done using my computer I press the power button that is set to put my computer in hibernation.

Some mornings, I'd come downstairs to find my computer with the BIOS Power-On password 'Password' command prompt is displayed.  Other morning my computer not turn on because the battery was empty.

Others have reported their computers would wake up from standby or hibernate on several occasions, some repeatedly and then to go back to sleep.

So what's happening?  It is all linked to timers.

A program can tell Vista wait awhile and then call executable code to an address that offers the program.  This is an example if you use a program like Microsoft's Outlook email client where you can set a task reminder for a later date and time.  Outlook says Vista wait X number of hours, and then run some Outlook code.  This Outlook code then displays your callback.

But what happens if you put your computer in standby or Hibernate?  Well, before Vista you would get your reminder.  Or maybe your anti-virus would not happen.  Or maybe Windows Update would not be executed.  Vista has changed all that.

When Vista goes to sleep or into hibernation, it first checks to see if there are defined timers to turn off.  If there is, it takes the next set clock turns off and affects an alarm in the hardware platform for this day and time.  At the level of the material it is usually an alarm which belongs to the time clock (RTC) real.  Once sets Vista the RTC alarm it will sleep or standby extended.

When the RTC alarm goes off your system lights up.  Vista continues and is notified of the alarm after having exploded.  Vista checks its list of timer and executes the code associated with the timer when turned off.  When the code is actually running Vista go to sleep after two minutes of inactivity.

My problem has been compounded by the fact that I was using the BIOS Power-On Password.  My computer would sit at the prompt "Enter password" until I fell on it or the battery ran down.

What is the solution?  It's pretty simple.  Click Start, all programs, accessories, command prompt.  Run these two commands in the command prompt window:

powercfg - setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0

powercfg - setdcvalueindexGUID_mode scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0

What do these commands?  You change the setting of the attribute "allow windows automatically wake your computer from sleep on a timer for scheduled tasks and other programs ' (which is honestly what it's called!) in the subgroup of the sleep of your current Windows power plan settings.  The first command applies when you are running on electric power and the second when you run on current continuous (drums).  You can re-enable each attribute at any time by re-running the command change the 0 value at the end to 1 (0 = disable, 1 = turn on).

WARNING: If you disable these settings, then your computer will NEVER wake up from sleep or hibernation to perform scheduled tasks.

You can read and learn more about the profiles of power here:

http://download.Microsoft.com/download/a/d/f/adf1347d-08dc-41a4-9084-623b1194d4b2/PMPolicy_Windows.docx

and here:

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