I have recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased an Asus R510J, a laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.1. It was running rather smoothly apart from some painful differences I notice coming from Windows 7. The one issue I started to notice however, was that when waking it up in the morning it would sometimes be drained from all battery. It would not happen every time, and I wouldn't pay much attention to it to begin with, but now I dug deeper into it. And boy, am I clueless.
First of all, I always put my laptop in sleep mode. Power button as well as closing lid is set to doing so, and I did not change it yet. When it actually sleeps, it behaves as you would expect it to. It, well, sleeps. No noise, no power drain, no heating, nothing. But as I said, it does not always stay asleep. Aside from excessive power drain at night (100%-2%, so critical shutdown took place I assume), I have noticed that it would turn on at random during the day. I have Steam installed on both my desktop and laptop, and when using the former I have noticed that randomly "in-house streaming" became available from my laptop. That meant that it was fully awake and had all programs running. Then I had it turn on while transporting it, resulting in massive overheating of my entire laptop bag. All in all, this thing will wake up when it feels like it, and I can't make it stop.
Now details. I'm not sure how relevant are my hardware specs, but tl;dr - i7-4710HQ, nVidia GTX 850M, 12gb RAM, 750GB HDD at 7.2kRPM. All of that is ran by Windows 8.1 of course. I have tried searching for the problem of course, but none of the usual solutions work. When ran in command line, "powercfg lastwake" claims that it was caused by "fixed feature; power button". Searching for waketimers yields no results. Checking in scheduled tasks shows that all the maintenance is set to not wake up my laptop. I have disabled my network card waking up on pattern match (I did leave magic packet, but I don't think that's the cause). All of that, to no effect.
I have found, at this point, what seems to cause the random wake-ups. I just have no idea what to make of it. When searching windows logs, I found this:
Sure enough, I managed to pinpoint ProcessID 1464 - it's svchost.exe. When running "tasklist /SVC", it claims to be responsible for services: "BFE, DPS, MpsSvc". First one and last one seem to be related to firewall, other is a mystery. It would apper that somehow, someway my firewall is causing random wakes, but I can't find how could it be doing that, or how to prevent that. And this is where I'm lost.
Dealing with unexpected wake-ups and battery drainage on laptops can be a frustrating experience. Here are some steps and recommendations to troubleshoot and potentially resolve the issue:
Powercfg and Event Viewer:
Run powercfg -devicequery wake_armed in Command Prompt to check for devices that can wake the computer.
Check Event Viewer for more detailed information about the wake events. Look for entries related to power or waking up from sleep.
[]Windows Update:
Ensure your system is updated with the latest Windows updates. Sometimes, Microsoft releases patches to address power management issues.
Dealing with unexpected wake-ups and battery drainage on laptops can be a frustrating experience. Here are some steps and recommendations to troubleshoot and potentially resolve the issue:
Powercfg and Event Viewer:
Run powercfg -devicequery wake_armed in Command Prompt to check for devices that can wake the computer.
Check Event Viewer for more detailed information about the wake events. Look for entries related to power or waking up from sleep.
[]Windows Update:
Ensure your system is updated with the latest Windows updates. Sometimes, Microsoft releases patches to address power management issues.
[]Driver Updates:
Update your BIOS, chipset, network, and graphics card drivers to the latest versions. Outdated drivers can sometimes cause power-related issues.
[]Power Settings:
Check the advanced power options in the Control Panel and ensure settings like hybrid sleep, wake timers, and USB selective suspend are configured correctly.
[]Network and Firewall Settings:
Disable the "Allow this device to wake the computer" option for your network adapter in Device Manager.
Review firewall settings related to network activity that might be waking your system. Temporarily turn off the firewall to see if it resolves the issue.
[]System Maintenance:
Run system maintenance tasks such as disk cleanup, check disk, and system file checker (sfc /scannow) to ensure system integrity.
[]Third-Party Software:
Review any recently installed software that may be causing conflicts with sleep mode and try uninstalling or updating them.
Battery Settings:
If your laptop uses custom power management software from the laptop manufacturer, check if there are advanced settings that might be causing unwanted wake-ups. By following these steps, you can systematically diagnose and address the issue of random wake-ups and battery drainage on your laptop. If the problem persists, consider reaching out to Asus support for additional assistance tailored to your specific laptop model.