Hi all,
This morning (well, close to 1 pm, doesn't matter) I found my PC running instead of sleeping, with the screen off. Hitting caps lock resulted in the keyboard indicator switching, but the screen never turned on. I tried to put the machine to sleep manually (sleep button on keyboard) just to see what happens -- no reaction. After hard reset, all came back to normal.
A bit of a backstory, if that matters at all: a few weeks ago, the machine failed to sleep and 'powercfg -requests' revealed that srvnet was keeping it awake. Following an online discussion, I issued:
powercfg /requestsoverride driver srvnet system
which solved the problem. Today, after I successfully hard-rebooted, I decided to check if srvnet was still trying to keep the machine awake and found that it was not. So, I undid the override by issuing:
powercfg -requestsoverride driver \filesystem\srvnet
These are the only changes to the system. Aside from that, a few days ago my NVIDIA driver and GeForce Experience were updated (maybe that is what fixed the srvnet requests). Event Viewer reports some interesting behavior prior to what happened in the morning, but I do not know if this is abnormal (events corresponding to going to sleep and my hard reset are in bold):
Error 3/11/2017 12:43:48 PM EventLog 6008 None The previous system shutdown at 12:10:01 PM on 3/11/2017 was unexpected.
Critical 3/11/2017 12:43:33 PM Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power 41 (63) The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Information 3/11/2017 12:43:27 PM Microsoft-Windows-FilterManager 6 None File System Filter 'MpFilter' (10.0, 2016-08-08T16:01:17.000000000Z) has successfully loaded and registered with Filter Manager.
Information 3/11/2017 12:43:27 PM Microsoft-Windows-FilterManager 6 None File System Filter 'FileInfo' (6.1, 2009-07-13T16:34:25.000000000Z) has successfully loaded and registered with Filter Manager.
Information 3/11/2017 12:43:27 PM Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General 12 None The operating system started at system time 2017-03-11T19:43:27.109999300Z.
Information 3/11/2017 12:37:39 PM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 12:18:08 PM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 11:37:38 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 11:34:04 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 10:35:34 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 10:31:20 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 10:10:20 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 10:00:26 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 8:58:56 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 8:56:42 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 7:22:12 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 7:15:47 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 6:12:47 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 5:57:27 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 4:13:57 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the running state.
Information 3/11/2017 4:03:57 AM Service Control Manager 7036 None The WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service service entered the stopped state.
Information 3/11/2017 3:10:46 AM Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power 42 (64) "The system is entering sleep.
All this activity in between -- is that normal behavior? I am inclined to blame NVIDIA's GeForce Experience, which seems intrusive and overbearing with a bunch of services that appear to collect all sorts of info...
Scanned with AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes -- all clean. Any thoughts/suggestions?
Thanks!
PC specs:
OS: Win 7 Home x64 (original OEM by Dell, no reinstallations)
Age: 3-4 years
CPU: Core i5-3450 @ 3.1 GHz
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 by Gigabyte
Motherboard: Dell
Power Supply: Dell, 460W
Manufacturer and Model: Dell XPS 8500
