My PC kept turning itself back on... Here's how I fixed it! (no, it wasn't WAKE ON LAN)

[@xjet]

HP = *_AVOID_* -- don't buy into their exploitive printer ecosystem.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

Might as well put an eyepatch over the printer console!

[@TigonIII]

I have an HP monitor, that when plugged in installs HP Omen software, so if I unplug it and plug it back in, it reinstalls the software. Really irritating.

[@RainyFoxUwU]

​Disable USB for the monitor in device manager?​@@TigonIII

[@TigonIII]

@@RainyFoxUwU But it's only connected via DisplayPort? Or maybe I am missing something.

[@JS-fl2qm]

I stopped buying Hp printers because of the eventual software issues.

[@Hagop64]

"I'm sorry Jay, I'm afraid I can't do that."

[@TinchoX]

Freaking computers goin sentient on us...

[@kebugcheck]

That’s what she said.

[@daverockz]

HAL 9000

[@OfficialGGBazar]

"Take a look at your history, everything you built leads back to me. "

[@yakbreeder]

🤣 👍 I see what you did there.

[@MakingandBreaking]

Biggest takeaway should be to not purchase HP products that require insane amounts of bloatware and have DRM on their hardware >

[@kaseyboles30]

AT this point HP printers are a subscription service. If you don't subscribe to their ink program the printer wont run in many cases.

[@SPEEDFREAK6988]

Its not just hp.I have a dell optiplex from 2022 and it literally does this every single time,I've given up and save everything and unplug it and THEN It will stay off.I removed anything that could be bloatware and even resorted to a full windows 10 pro installation disk($100) and it is still doing it.I literally have no idea what is causing it because my actual rig never did it to begin with so maybe it's something with the updates that keeps causing it.

[@madness1931]

Why people keep buying Horrible Products is beyond me. EDIT: putting aside my disgust for HP, printers and print servers can be one of the worst things IT staff need to deal with.

[@SelecaoOfMidas]

​@@kaseyboles30 Except for the ink tank series.

[@jaykoerner]

​@@kaseyboles30they actually don't do the subscription service anymore they gave up

[@bituniverse8677]

HP printer is the first mistake tbh. Never getting one. The behavior of the company and the pain that they are IT management wise just makes the garbage

[@johnunderwood43]

I used to like HP printers back in the day when printers actually used printer ports. Finally got burnt out on them when they decided that they would force expire on refill cartridges and wouldn't work with cartridges which I refill and stopped making the new cartridges (force to buy new printer).

[@indrahaseo]

HP printer was trash and useless after all

[@SapphireSuniver]

BIOS: wake on lan is disabled so we won't wake on a network event. Windows: are you sure about that, peasant?

[@indrahaseo]

Reinstall windows : time for me to get shined 😂

[@remmon1]

Honestly, this is both a stupid Windows bug, a stupid Windows design decision and a bug/design fault on the NIC. Because the BIOS/UEFI decides what hardware features are present and if it sets Wake-On-LAN off, especially on a NIC directly on the motherboard, that should be the end of the discussion. Windows shouldn't even have a Wake-On-LAN option for that device and even if it does, the device shouldn't obey it because BIOS/UEFI says no. And of course, a Windows design fault because why the fuck did they think it was a good idea to wake the PC on any LAN activity? We made Wake-On-LAN magic packets for a goddamned reason.

[@jonssonj]

I have the exact same problem with my gaming rig, but I work as an IT-Consultant so can't be bothered to troubleshoot it, there is enough of that when I'm at work, so I just turning off the power supply at the back and says to it, "Try to turn on now, you piece of ....". 😂

[@yakbreeder]

🤣 👍

[@Taliseth]

Hah can relate to this one, I always tell my clients, much like doctors we are our worst patients/clients when they ask why I don't just fix it, often it's easier to just low effort fix it (eg. turn of power) Though my CMOS battery had Two cents to give, so was forced to fix it or move my pc away from the wall and replace the CMOS battery which sits under the "shroud" yay aesthetics. Happy to say, I lived with the first and still the second one, a few years each (CMOS battery still is dead, re-dialling in OC settings is easier than fixing that CMOS battery on the effort scale! 🤣)

[@mhaden-k8z]

lol yeah great idea until the cmos battery takes a dump and now you will be resting the clock and all your secure boot configs .

[@knight8563]

Hehehehehehehehe thinking after my own heart

[@edalecu]

@@mhaden-k8z unless you have overclock or boot mode was changed from default, any cmos reset should not impact the computer's ability to boot ;) and date/time settings would be restored online quickly after os startup

[@jeffclontz3772]

Another reason HP sucks! I've always been happy with Brother.

[@odahithedubious2017]

I had HP for years, and left when they started the mandatory subscription for ink. I have a Brother now, but it keeps bugging me to replace cartridges when they still have 20% left. Sigh.

[@DerPatrick83]

@@odahithedubious2017 You can reset toners and catridges on almost any Brother printer, so it will print until it´s completely empty.

[@sykoteddy]

I thought Brother would totally change my printer experience with Linux, because it's said it's one of the only brands supporting Linux, but I haven't other than problems with it using Linux. I can setup CUPS and chose the printer to be the default, but when I try to print the queue just sits there and do NOTHING! I tried so many different settings and nothing works. Btw, now my Win 10 computer have started to downsize the PDF printable area on A4 when printing, but when I open the PDF on my Linux computer it shows it over the whole A4 page....

[@emanemanresuresu]

Amen Brother

[@Cynic_6489]

Brother gang. damned things can take a beating and still work

[@FSAPOJake]

This is one of the biggest annoyances with Windows. It doesn't just wake from sleep, it'll also wake from hibernate if you dont go and find every device on the system that isnt your keyboard and turn off its ability to wake the PC up, and even then that doesn't always work.

[@GaryGreys-ri4wi]

Never had this issue. Would stress me out big time. Reminds me of the 90s 😂

[@andrea_frm_dubt8977]

I discovered Sibling’s computer refuses to turn off properly the other day. Hopefully I can get Sibling to troubleshoot and fix it.

[@hovnocuc4551]

Years ago, I even made a simple Windows service that would put the PC back to sleep after a minute in case it woke up itself in the middle of the night. In recent years, just turning WoL, power to USB, hardware timers (Windows Update is the biggest offender when it comes to those) and all that crap off made it stop. But I'm certain there are still some motherboards that won't let you configure the PC that way. These things really should be opt-in, it's especially bad when a laptop in your backpack does this sort of stuff.

[@indrahaseo]

@@hovnocuc4551 shutdown is better than sleep mode for save electricity lol

[@maxmustermann194]

Only for Windows Update to keep waking up the PC from Hibernate :)

[@BagheeraRaceGamer]

I have the PC where we sleep (...or rather... my wife and I moved to the studio to sleep... because of the 4k and the a/c). And one day, the small dog jumped on the table and all the suden the PC went on. Then some other day, I was dusting the desk and PC went on!... I figured it was on mouse-click. Went to BIOS to see any settings there... SAME THING... all the "wake on blah blah blah" was disabled. I just watched this video now, and figured the generic driver "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" has this feature, and it was enabled!!! I'll check now if my PC stops turning on when clicking. EDIT: confirmed. It was that.

[@indrahaseo]

make sure to update the drivers and unchecked allow this device to wake the computer in power management

[@TD-er]

There are also network devices which have such bad drivers, those will always trigger your PC to turn itself on again. (e.g. onboard Realtek 2.5 Gbps) Bought an Intel PCI-e 2.5 Gbps card and it acts a bit more predictable regarding reboots. (and a lot more stable network performance)

[@mysilverdime25]

Thank you Jay, I've experienced this problem before, and I wasn't able to make that connection a printer would be making my system wake. I loved how your deduction and logic flow and how you explained each step of the way.

[@khaychi]

I'm shocked the software that came with the downloaded driver didn't start crypto mining in the background. 👀

[@kaseyboles30]

Eventually. For now the driver and printer will enforce a supcription to hp's ink service (or keep the printer from doing anything) so they'll hold off on that untill the backlash from it dies off. Crypto mining will probably be next year.

[@Spumtum]

A Windows driver update probably resets that setting.

[@arnox4554]

Honestly, I think this is both Windows' fault and HP's fault.

[@indrahaseo]

@@arnox4554HP printer is the most cause for it

[@bighammer3464]

Dam Jay didn’t even let us in his office. We have to talk to him from the hallway 😂

[@stevenmoor]

I have had an annoying Windows bug for YEARS on my laptop, and can not figure out the cause. I can't leave it on sleep or hibernate overnight, because it's always switching itself back on without warning in the dead of night.

[@zackzeed]

Have you turned off 'Allow wake timers' in advanced power settings? Fast startup I've heard from someone can also have an effect like waking the pc from sleep.

[@Lockwood360]

So reinstall windows. takes minutes

[@kaseyboles30]

@@zackzeed That's because fast startup prevent the pc from completely shutting down. It saves state to ram and turns off most of the devices on the motherboard and puts everything else in their lowest power state. You're still using battery and you haven't cleared any wonkyness that choosing restart instead of shuttdown would have cleared as restart actually does turn off the cpu and ram and everything except perhaps a few usb ports (they'll likely be an odd color to indicate this) and then does a full reboot. Unless you have dire need for it I recomend turning off fast reboot, ESPECIALLY on laptops.

[@Raivo_K]

Run from commandline: powercfg -lastwake

[@davidhines7592]

@@kaseyboles30 fast startup has a bug - if the saved state is corrupted when its supposed to shutdown it will just reboot. when that happens you RESTART the computer and then it will clear the corrupt saved state when you go to shutdown.

[@Preske]

"it's an HP printer" : say no more.

[@Odin029]

"I have a feeling that I might be dealing with"... I really wanted him to say gremlin

[@trueheart1372]

Bugs agrees

[@slyfoxkgar]

As a 30+ year tech. Microsoft turns on network power saving every now and then with updates. (note found this a log time ago.. when servers and workstations would SHUT off the network while it was access a data base.. and corrupt it.. OVER AND OVER again. Microsoft does not actually check to see if you are using the card.. it just shuts it off when it wants)

[@Joeyzoom]

My teen said the Printer rizzed up that network card. I don’t know what that means but I hope it helps

[@GkhnA]

Louis Rossmann could rant about this for 15 minutes straight instead of trying to troubleshoot. 🤣

[@vayhek7097]

wait, we need to turn off our computers?

[@BennyColyn]

4:22 If you're looking for ERP just head for the Goldshire Inn

[@valiant719]

Skynet. Your thermal fluid is going to morph into a T-1000. 30 seconds later Arnie is breaking down your door, firing shotgun shells into your pc and insisting you go with him if you want to live..

[@Aquineas]

Other things to check. Disable SNP on the port in the printer properties. Also, take a look at task scheduler to make sure there aren't scheduled tasks that are allowed to wake the computer to complete. Microsoft installs some of these and turns them on by default.

[@t0m5k1]

I hated WoL for ages just because if this, You disable it in BIOS but Windows somehow overrides that which is totally wrong as windows is the OS and BIOS is the ...the BIOS. These days as a near remote admin I use this for headless server control.

[@pootispiker2866]

This wasn't wol

[@t0m5k1]

@@pootispiker2866 It was just a statement

[@hauntedvoyager8196]

Printers and their associated drivers are truly agents of chaos.

[@michaeloneill1360]

OMG Jay!! Those Speakers!!!

[@starfleetau]

OMFG thank you! my pc was doing this as well and it was driving me nuts as I had checked Bios.

[@TheGuacoTaco]

Thanks for the information Jay. For those curious, this issue isn't HP specific. I've never had an HP printer and my computer was doing the same thing. For some reason, if I told mine to restart, it would shutdown just fine afterwards and be fine for a few weeks then the issue would recur. I'll have to check my WoL and power settings.

[@ironeleven]

My personal story regarding weird wakeup behavior is that my computer would constantly cycle between sleeping and waking overnight until I got in the habit of unplugging my Quest 3 headset.

[@googolplexfpv]

Meta is horrible with stuff like that. their software constantly opens itself on my PC even when I haven't plugged in my headset in weeks.

[@pootispiker2866]

@@googolplexfpv I don't use quest link and just use virtual desktop over wifi

[@mmis1000]

​@@googolplexfpva few updates ago, their queat software halt the computer from dimming screen completely. You have to go to windows service to kill that damn process so screen will dim normally. Wondering why they even want to do that at first place.

[@wornwater3537]

Hi Jay, I want to thank you sooooooo much for this video it proves that I'm not crazy! I upgraded my pc last Christmas and this problem followed me from my last pc. I thought I had looked at everything but never thought of this setting. My pc will finally have a good night sleep from now on and my network all in one will never wake it up again. Just for reference,, my all-in-one printer is made by Epson.

[@fairmania]

They never explained who Rage Against The Machine were angry with, but as the meme states, I bet it was a printer. A truly despicable part of life that people need but do we really want them?? Aren't computers great...??? It's the printer version of Netflix's 'Are you still watching?'

[@selrah]

My PC can't turn itself back on, if I never turn it off. *taps head*

[@jjimlee7009]

I don't know why but this reminded me of the knife scene in Starship Troopers: The enemy can not push a button if you disable his hand. Both common sense truth.

[@christopherkidwell9817]

Wow... you waste a lot of power then if you never turn off your PC.

[@edalecu]

@@christopherkidwell9817 he has his reasons

[@xeres14]

You need a HAL voice over with the unchecking the box "What are you doing, Jay?".

[@commanderwolf_gaming5191]

I have a laptop that has a big red circle in the center lid. So i figured id name it HAL. I had a system them that would speak at windows login. And it would "Say Good Morning (my name). It would speak on uninstalling things. A windows error. If you opened task manager it would say that "What are you doing (name)? , Some times it would act up. I got to thinking that you know Hal acts like that Ex-gf still trying to tell you what you can do... lol

[@Weaver0x00]

I had the same issue a couple years ago. I was near tearing hairs off out my head, I couldn't find the culprit. It somehow solved itself, but I'm still glad this video adds to the troubleshooting knowledge "database". I hate this about tech, some stuff works itself out for no reason, other stuff is super-obscure and hidden behind menus you'd never know existed.

[@DJ_Underwood]

OMG I was having this same problem, have a Gigabyte board and same Marvel 10G network, but a Brother printer, I will be testing this as I bet its the EXACT same problem. I don't turn my pc off much but every time I am out of town I do and I come back and its on, and no one was even home. Thanks Jay!

[@Benneffect]

My repair shop's unofficial motto is "Windows keeps us in business."

[@alanw737]

Thanks, Microsoft!

[@zadrik1337]

Haha! I love the Kilroy cold open.

[@SilentStorm03]

I believe we need way more content of this sort. Never had this issue myself but heard people talk about it. but this type of guides are more useful than they seem may be

[@jbr6700]

Same problem here a few years back. I found that some software can change driver power management in regard to wake on LAN within Windows. My experience revolved around a Gigabyte X570 Pro Wi-Fi and the bundled cFosSpeed software. After installing said software, system refused to shut down. Finally figured out the same thing you just did. Uninstalled the software and changed settings in device manager fixed the problem. Another noted problem at least on the AM4 platform and Gigabyte is there are two separate areas in BIOS setup for wake on LAN. The main as shown in video and another sub setting in the LAN settings menu. If you turn off the sub setting in BIOS it will not stay turned off. I believe this has been broken in the BIOS as I went from F11 to current F38 on the same system and the issue persist to this day. Does not keep the system awake, just appears to be bad BIOS coding here.

[@profosist]

on thing to be noted for Jayz board that he didnt about is that main Wake on Lan setting wont affect the 10GbE NIC since its not on board that will have its own settings in the UEFI usually under an additional sub menu at the bottom

[@drock12_12]

I see another Micro Center trip to switch and upgrade all printers in the building. Can't wait for the vid on that trip. Brothers, Epson, are screaming "Jayyyy, over HEREEE, look at meee"

[@Chuck.S.]

Instead of slamming the delete key just do a restart while holding shift to the troubleshooter screen then get in to the bios.

[@ArtifactSkyline]

I have a laptop at work that has never successfully shut down. It will automatically start back up. This video has given me a few things to go and check next week. Thank you for this.

[@peteconci5344]

Jay. I just got this weird exact problem for the very first time in 30 years of PC building a few weeks ago too. Thinking logically back to what changes may have been recently made I came to the conclusion that it happened after I ISO installed the latest big windows update. Checked like you everything even bios resets. Nothing fixed. Finally did a capacitor discharge by turning off power supply, unplugging and then pressing and holding power button for 1 min. Immediately solved concern. Has not returned. X570 Gigabyte Xtreme board 5950x. Cheers buddy.

[@CasualCoreK]

Shooting from the hip during the intro: when I had the same auto-startup issue a few years ago, disabling the (unused) USB-C port on my graphics card fixed it

[@sjones72751]

Another 2 things to check (from experience). Make sure your switch isn’t sending power over Ethernet to a device that doesn’t accept power over Ethernet. Second, update all your base system drivers. Had several instances with Lenovo system where an older acpi driver was causing reboots to hang

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

Watched until the end before commenting, great to see the solution being as simple as a checkbox. Usually when I run into this issue is after I install a bunch of updates on an old computer and usually gets solved with a bios update, and a lot of us wouldn’t have particular printer setups like this so it’s cool to know these niche problems

[@mr2miach]

As for the checkmark not showing up and Phil was your witness. This has been a known "glitch" since Windows 95. The setting will be present in the Windows Registry but not always show in Device Manager drivers settings. Has happened to NIC's, GPU's, sound cards, and other add-on cards. Not strictly for add-on cards either as it can happen to integrated devices as well. The most common instances I've found over the many years I've been doing IT is after driver updates. The driver updates, has a feature enabled or disabled, updates the registry but does NOT reflect the same settings in device manager. This very problem is how I learned how to navigate, edit, and utilize Windows Registry as it was quicker and easier in the end.

[@shaunmctavish1335]

I'll admit that's a new one to me, a computer that doesn't want to shutdown.. Jay did you link into the Cyberdyne Systems?? Do we viewers have to worry about Arnold showing up at our houses looking for Sarah Connor now?

[@Mr3ppozz]

"Skynet does not accept this command to turn off" 😂😂😂😂

[@tonyrobson7651]

OMG - Thank you so much Jay. I have been plagued by this problems for months - and the power setting on the 10Gb NIC on the Gigabyte board has finally sorted it. Cheers!

[@Ladarrius08]

Another similar issue is with HP Print Scan Doctor waking the pc from a sleep state. You have to uncheck the wake function for this in Task Scheduler.

[@suiton20]

Windows 11 is what happened. My laptop randomly turns on even if the lid is closed. Rebooting into windows 10 fixed it completely until dell forced pushed an update that made it get windows 11 again. After that the laptop turns itself back on randomly

[@kaseyboles30]

Turn off fast boot (with this on your laptop never actually shuts off, just hibernates).

[@profosist]

probably doesnt have proper Win11 drivers which is more of a Dell thing. I know my Razer laptop is in that camp. Though being compatible they never released anything Win11 specific for it so it wont sleep on its own among other things

[@JamesDittoOG]

Happens to me all the time. Couldn't find anything concrete online when I searched for it. Finally some info...

[@j.p.h.8126]

Its the office elf whos gaming on it while your gone.

[@RogerW9421]

Windows update can also do weird things to your device manager and its settings. You CAN get a ghost setting where the wake on lan is not on, but when the system refreshes, it updates and shows that it is enabled.

[@Wh0isTh3D0ct0r]

I had a power issue with my PC recently, but it wasn't quite the same thing. My PC refused to go into Sleep mode automatically. After months of trying ALL the solutions that I could find, I finally discovered that the Lock Screen Slideshow mode prevents a Windows 10/11 PC from going into Sleep mode automatically. I switched it to just a single picture for the Lock screen, and the problem is resolved.

[@profosist]

yes this is an actual thing in Win11, they almost treat it like a screensaver! Gotta makes sure to disable that feature/function. It caught me out on a laptop that would mysteriously drain.

[@BigDom1002]

This kind of reminds me of a Video PCGH here in Germany did Years ago. They had a test bench running, but when the shut it down, the GPU Fan kept running even when unplugging the PSU. They narrowed it down to the Monitor they were using was providing enough power over the DVI cable that it kept the fan running!

[@MikeyritZ]

That’s so funny. I’ve been dealing with this problem since I built my PC like five months ago, but I figured it out a few weeks ago and then you make a video on it. 😂😂

[@MikeyritZ]

Except mine wasn’t when you shut it down mine was just waking itself from sleep mode

[@andyb5547]

What fixed this issue?

[@BryceKant]

SO glad I am not the only one that has to deal with strange random crap that happens when someone feeds the gremlins after midnight.

[@trueheart1372]

I like bug bunny gremlins better but there both cool

[@Its-Just-Zip]

For my limited understanding of how HP printers work, the printer is essentially sending out a multicast broadcast, advertising its existence, and that is what was waking up your computer. HP printers send out these multicast packets constantly. It's basically screaming "hey, I'm here. Somebody notice me. Send me print jobs." Also, HP printers are part of the reason why I switched to Linux. Because I don't need to download their bullcrap software. I can just print using the standard cups drivers.

[@bhighlander]

i can almost guarantee you that's a bug in the software that some developer couldn't be bothered to solve and just used a vastly overprivileged solution to fix. like getting rid of an ant problem with a nuke. it'll do the job but with disproportional side effects.

[@NicolasP1973]

I had a similar issue with sleep. I found a windows command that tells what turn the PC on and disabled the authorization of that device to turn the system on. And after a bit of fiddling I solved the problem. Thanks for this video!

[@ZoDDeL]

was the first thing i checked a while ago when my hibernation waked up from itself.

[@Fireduck2112]

I have the same NIC and same starting up on it's own. The fix you used worked for me as well. Thanks!

[@BALJIT147]

One thing that you could have done that would be interesting, is a packet capture analysis. You could capture traffic leaving the printer and show what it was sending.

[@faeranne]

Wake On Lan is such a weird and complex system that has like... 5 billion layers and switches, and any one of them can *sometimes* override other switches, except not always, and both OS and Bios have to talk to each other and agree on things, and I spent like... 5 hours trying to get my computer to respect the WoL, and eventually just accepted that it's terrible, and everyone involved in implementing it is either not paid nearly enough, or wants everyone to feel pain. This isn't *just* a Windows issue either. I have watched that exact setting get reset randomly while using Linux too. Aaaaaugh!

[@bluegizmo1983]

If you narrow it down to an ethernet issue like that, my first check after that would be Wireshark to see what packet is waking it and where it's coming from.

[@IceSki117]

I feel the pain from this video. As the IT technician at a school, I can't go more than a week without some random issue popping up like this.

[@Gerardhutt]

I never seen that problem before. It started on my gaming pc a week ago. And now you made a video about it

[@CornFlakesPC]

Man, I'm so proud that the company I work for has gone paperless over 2 years ago now. Also, avoid HP at all cost. I would rather write down everything on my own on a piece of paper than using their garbage. Nevertheless, let all that run over your server via docker.

[@transformerstuff7029]

2:00 Jay enjoying his new keyboard switch.

[@Hoigwai]

I have had a few "ghost" settings happen on my system so, I'm not surprised yours did this.

[@MechaNut]

Unless you have disabled fast startup in Windows, a shutdown isn't a shutdown. With Fast Startup enabled (which is enabled by default) a shutdown puts the PC into hibernate which can cause oddball behavior similar to what you were seeing here. With fast startup enabled the only real way to do a shutdown to the BIOS is to restart Windows.

[@tf330129]

Jay's Computer: Do you want me on or not? Jay: NO Jay's Printer : WAKE UP Jay's Computer: OK Wake Up commenced! Jay: No Don't do that?!!!

[@imc2cavu]

I just built a system and it would NOT stay asleep! thanks for posting this setting.

[@Johnwick-ed7vo]

Ok step 1. Crawl through computer, Step 2 . Set to the right. Step 3. If it rests it self then call the computer priest and schedule a computer ghost excersist. 😂 Ya gotta love hp crapware

[@flailbasher7646]

I haven’t watched this yet but mine has been turning back on by itself for over a year at least. I have to remember to turn it off at the PSU every time I shut down. I can’t wait to see how you fixed it as mine is not awake on LAN either. 😁😁👍🏼

[@Mr3ppozz]

Hope you can find the option to turn it off... If you haven't... try and disabling the USB C port on your GPU (if it has on obviously and you're not using it) that port can also confuse windows :p

[@flailbasher7646]

@@Mr3ppozzthank you for this! If this vid doesn’t help I shall take a look. I’ve got an old 2080ti so pretty sure it doesn’t have a usb c port on it… could be wrong as I’m not at my pc until later! :)

[@granyte]

Have you installed a 10 gig card? I have the exact same 10 gig card and mine turn on by it's self also

[@Stoney_UK]

That's very interesting, My PC would also restart after l clicked turn off. I couldn't figure it out. Then you posted this video, So I thought I'll look at my setting and hey presto the box was checked!! So now it's unchecked I'll see how it go's. Thanks Jay and the team!!

[@NicholasThompson1982]

Hat Tip tp Phil for his efforts in trying to focus on a curved screen with a VERY shallow depth of field ;)

[@xbolt90]

I work in a print shop. Can confirm: all computer printers are demonically possessed, even the large industrial ones. (HP are the worst of the worst tho)

[@dweagar]

I've had this problem, only way I fixed it was a complete format & windows reinstall.

[@pyric]

I've run into similar problems in the past it isn't too strange. Printer software in general is also hot garbage. Lots of software though likes reverting windows settings you change(and windows itself really loves doing this). Often you end up needing to run scripts or do registry edits etc to constantly force a setting to stay the way you want it.

[@lapurta22]

One of the big reasons I finally ditched Windows after being a user since 3.0

[@malabra7278]

THIS WAS PERFECT! Was having this same problem with Marvell AQtion 10gbit network adapter was trying to figure out almost redid whole OS to see if would fix problem lol glad you made this video!!!!

[@profosist]

One thing to be noted is that the main UEFI Wake on LAN setting you did would not apply to the 10G NIC since its not a chipset device. It would have its own menu with its own options similar to a PCI-E add-in card.

[@DIDISCH68]

Do you have the note about the IT industry from 2 years ago? "Never use an HP printer again!" Ever since HP started forcing users to use their INK service via firmware, HP printers have been the worst garbage you can buy in IT. And I say that as a former HP employee. An HP firmware update destroyed my entire system 1 1/2 years ago and killed the printer, even though the automatic updates were turned off in the printer. I now only use Canon refillable printer and have no more problems.

[@rarrmonkey]

OMG been having the same problem, I too just had to instal HP scan to pc software. THANKYOU for making this video. My PC is in my bedroom, it has been cycling because of going to sleep settings.

[@foehammerTrance]

Can't even trust the check boxes in Windows anymore smh

[@imjody]

lmfao @ the intro shot guys 😂😂

[@XtomJamesExtra]

You forgot to turn off "magic packet" and to turn off "wake on lan" directly from the network card's settings via control panel, rather than Windows 11's "setting" panel. The "settings" version is a soft switch, meaning it's turned off but not for essential Windows services. So updates and other Windows services can still forcibly wake or turn on your computer. "Magic packet' can also do this, especially if you have any internal servers like Xserve for Linux in Windows running in the background.

[@Maradiaga23]

Thanks Jay, you just taught me how to turn off the ethernet port lights off when I turn off my PC. I have my computer in my bedroom, so having that orange light on at night was so annoying to me

[@ethzero]

"My PC's keyboard doesn't have a functioning apostrophe key", screams the title card of this video.

[@NeoKronos44]

Even if you don't have an HP device, this video might still apply to you in the future. Here's why: Just this past summer 2024, "HP Smart" (dumb) suite for printers just decided to bundle itself with Windows 11 updates and self-installed on many computers anyway. I know because my clients (over 50 incidents) had HP printer drivers replace their other print drivers despite not having a SINGLE HP device on their premises. The HP Smart suite overwrote the recommended drivers on Windows, overwriting Lexmark, Brother, Canon, etc. Of course, that caused obvious headaches for the actual drivers that were meant to be there. Thankfully this mess-up has resolved itself a couple months later. Thanks HP. (and any other brand that doesn't learn from their mistake)

[@lapurta22]

The mistake here is Windows 11

[@elwhapposanchez7926]

ghosts in the machine heh XD.

[@paulcappello5931]

PC priapism - If your PC won't shut down for more than four hours, call your PC doctor.

[@DavidMadeira29]

Can you only imagine someone had the opposite problem and never wanted the PC to shut down?! Namastè.

[@LarsV62]

I have a very old PC (pre Intel i3 series) with this exact problem, except it only applies to power save modes; powering off completely works fine. Thanks for this tip - I will check this tomorrow! 👍

[@akina309]

As someone who works at an MSP, I'm not surprised an HP printer/HP software caused this. Everything made by HP has been absolute garbage for YEARS. I also found out a while ago that some HP printers don't understand any network that isn't a standard Class C /24 range - if it's wider, any device that isn't in that same class C group it would be a part of, it will REFUSE to connect to the PC. The PC can see it, and the HP printer won't answer back. Total trash hardware AND software.

[@JarlZER0]

Similar problems but with sleep, and I haven't figured it out yet. PC1: main rig, kept in sleep as I use it to stream to Steamdeck, and wake up to run a backup automatically once in awhile and it takes an age to boot (AM5). I got it to sleep mostly, but sometimes it just half sleeps- leaves fans and lights running but otherwise seems asleep. PC2: used as an Emby server. I got it to sleep fine, where it would wake as soon as I opened Emby on something, and would sleep after a time inactive- no problems. Then with no changes it started sleep/instant wake cycling on it's own, now it just won't sleep. No printers or anything, and when I check what's keeping awake/last wake cause it usually gives me nothing (but sometimes Emby on the server, of course). Computers and I have a love/hate relationship.

[@Zeddby]

learning about wake on lan from this video just fixed the sane issue that I've had for 2 years oh my god I've been having to turn off my PSU or just my monitors this whole time and I never knew about that setting

[@KillerKermie]

Thank you so much. I have had this issue for over a year since it was built. The Magic Packet trick finally fixed it!!