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    R2 waking up at midnight

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by squeak83uk2, Jun 3, 2013.

  1. squeak83uk2

    squeak83uk2 Notebook Consultant

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    basically over the last few days i have had my R2 wake up at 12am (1am with DSt) i have actually been at there when it fires up, which is a bit worrying as a few times i have had it in a bag, so it got toasty enough to bluescreen and tell me about a hdd error,

    i read somewhere on the dell site, someone was saying there was a advanced power option in the bios to turn off RTC wake, but i dont see anything to indicate this on the m11x

    so i am kinda stumped
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 3, 2013
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  2. gbg2000

    gbg2000 Notebook Guru

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    All I know in the A05 Bios of the R3 there are 'wake on lan' and 'wake on usb' options.. I haven't seen other
     
    gbg2000, Jun 3, 2013
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    rspwn Notebook Enthusiast

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    Are you sure it wasn't just waking up to dump contents of RAM to HDD and fully hibernate? It does that after 6 hours of sleep by default.
     
    rspwn, Jun 4, 2013
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Both of them could be the reason, disable them and let us know if it helped.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jun 6, 2013
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