A computer that don’t sleep… much :)

I’m not the kind of guy who likes to shut down his pc, so I often let it go to sleep mode when Im not home. I’ve bought a new pc last month, and as always I put it in sleep mode when Im away, but whenever Im back, its awake How is that even possible? What makes it wake up by itself?? pLEASE help. Im concerned for my electricity bill
Answer #1
It might be from a moved mouse or something. I suggest turning off the “wake on mouse” and “wake on keyboard”, you can find them in the mouse and the keyboard properties. So you need to press the power button to wake the computer. Then you prevent “accidental” wakeups
Answer #2
But I live alone. So it would be imposs….
oh god! are you saying? oh god, whats the number for 911
damn burglars who break in and don’t take nothing
I still think there is some other issue here but sure I’ll do that for now and see if it works
Answer #3
There might also be some kind of WAKE ON LAN function enabled
Answer #4
Squirrelman replied: It might be from a moved mouse or something. I suggest turning off the "wake on mouse" and "wake on keyboard", you can find them in the mouse and the keyboard properties. So you need to press the power button to wake the computer. Then you prevent "accidental" wakeups
Yeah I agree. I think also it’s the mouse. Just the slightest mouse nudge could cause the computer to turn back on.
Depending on where you computer is – ie on a desk … you could perhaps taking out the chair to sit down, but then nudging the desk (which also nudges the mouse).
It’s a long shot, but disabling these features, and just enabling the power button as a form of awaking the PC would be a good place to start.
Answer #5
I’d say you’re better off keeping the PC in hibernation mode than on sleep mode as it is easier on the electricity bill. Plus, you do not have to worry about it waking up due to some mouse movement or an unintended keystroke.
The only downside is that the OS reserves some user-unusable space on the hard disk for hibernation.
Answer #6
If you are concerned for your electricity bill, then just shut it down, or are you scared it won’t boot into Windows again, lol.
Answer #7
General power usage for a PC:
Powered on maxing the CPU/GPU–>idle powered on–>sleep–>hibernation/Soft off–>Powered off at the switch
S3 Sleep uses around 6 watts in my experience whereas soft off/hibernation is only about 1 watt so not that big a difference and S3 sleep can be resumed instantly. Compared with around 100 watts when idling on my PC it’s a big difference. My PC spends most of it’s time in S3 Sleep and is very rarely powered off for any length of time except for when I am doing work on it such as replacing parts, cards or hard drives etc.
The mouse is the most likely cause of your system wake ups, any high resolution mouse can tend to register movement enough to cause a wake up. I have to turn my mouse up side down to prevent it when powering down the screen. You could check your Bios settings as there is usually something in there regarding power management and wake up via mouse/keyboard/lan etc. Check that S3 is enabled rather than S1 as well.
I have found AMP WinOff to be pretty good, far better than windows power management in my experience. I have it set to only sleep when there is little CPU activity such as no video encoding, no network activity below a few KB/s so no active uploads and no user activity for a set amount of time. Only when all not present will my system sleep.