I recently installed an Asus P5N-D motherboard as my previous Intel P965 vanilla motherboard was beggining to die. After reinstalling windows 7 and doing the update/reboot/update again dance a few times, I put the computer to sleep. It starts to cycle down, there is a momentary blink in my case LEDs and fans, and then powers right back up. I then unchecked "allow this device to wake the computer" in device manager for my keyboard, mouse, and network adapter, and suddenly the computer will properly go to sleep. However, I'm curuious and think there must be a BIOS setting I can change to avoid having to make these changes in Windows, as I like being able to wake my machine at the press of the keyboard. I have not updated my BIOS yet but will try that after work. If anyone knows anything I do not please fill me in!
Might want to rethink putting the keyboard in that mode. You need something (well maybe you dont but...) easy to trigger it to wake back up. I dont know of any utility and the control panel widget does not go into that amount of details. Maybe someone else does, I dont use hibernate so no clue what is out there as far as add on programes. or are you saying it wont sleep unless ALL of those items are unchecked ? I would have guessed the LAN would have done the trick and it still sleep with keyboard and mouse checked. I have seen mice so sensitive any little vibration would cause them to wake the computer, but the keyboard for sure should be able to be remain checked. Do the new bios as many times it stuff like this that gets fixed even if they dont mention it in the reason for the bios update.
I did in fact try disabling only the network adapter, as well as the keyboard and mouse individually. The computer will not correctly suspend to sleep state unless all 3 have "allow this device to wake the computer" unchecked. As it is now, I can still wake it from sleep with the power on button but this is suboptimal as you have noted. Hopefully updated BIOS addresses the problem! That will in about 4 hours.
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