NIS Live update

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Hi,

 

I've reviewed the other contributors and am happy to defer to their expertise. 

 

I'm puzzled that liveupdate can wake up a system from hibernation on its own ... seems wrong on so many levels.

 

Microsoft (mobo manfucturers too) has had a legion of problems getting systems to go nighty night and wake up properly.  Some won't go to sleep at all ... others won't wake up shy of a defribrilator jolt.

 

There's plenty of discussion about either situation on the forums.  An obvious issue to exclude is your motherboard settings - as in, check to make sure your LAN (NIC card) doesn't wake your system up.  There are reasons for having it - if they apply to you then I guess, let it alone.  

 

Other forums suggest getting the very latest bios / chip drivers for your motherboard and CPU etc.  I know this sorted out similar problems with one of my systems ... did zip for another.  HP systems are known to have the problem you describe ... mobo settings??

 

This link refers to an HP notebook.  It describes the fix in detail and may help here ... similar principles.

 

This is a real stretch - have you checked your scheduled tasks to see if there is anything unwanted happening?  If you are using XP, go control panel -  scheduled task.  It will show you what tasks are set to run and when.  For Vista: Control Panel \ System and Maintenance\Administrative Tools\Task Scheduler ... take a look around.

 

HTH

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Thanks for the good news – long may it last! <s>

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<< I'm puzzled that liveupdate can wake up a system from hibernation on its own ... seems wrong on so many levels. >>

 

As you can now see, at least for tfishman, it was the Wake on Lan setting that was the cause and not LUD .....

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Hi huwyngr,

 

Yep ... <skulks into corner> ... ouchy embarrassing.  I think I clicked passed the page with the solution (multiple tabs) and prattled on.  DOH! 

 

Still, it was interesting researching the issue - no real harm done by me :)

 

 

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We all should have thought of Wake on Lan sooner … <g>

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I actually did think about it sooner.  I just didnt think on a home network that I would be sending it the kind of packets that would cause a wake function.  I turned off both the specific packets and the admin packets on the card driver.  I’m not sure which one did the trick but I’m guessing it was the specific packets. 

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Luckily you know more about networking than I do <s>