G750JZ wakes on its own from "instant on" sleep

Basically, I put it to sleep and leave it. Sometimes (half the time) I find that it turns on by itself... if I don't catch it on time, the battery runs out and Win8 complains it was an ungraceful shutdown.

I have tried disconnecting the mouse and the lan cable: it happends less often but still happens.

Any ideas as to why the computer would be waking on its own without any network signal or mouse/keyboard interaction?

I have a G750JZ, standard installation (out of the box).

I haven't played at all with WOL on this one.

Using Power4Gear I set it to "long sleep" which is a type of instant on that is supposed to last 140 days (so it says when you set it). If I use the "short" instant on sleep it makes no difference.
(I'm really speaking of the two settings of "Instant on" and not of hybernation.

Tonight I'll try disconnecting everything *and* turning off the wifi before I set it to sleep mode...

It's not just a pain because you find it witht he battery completely empty... it's also not great for the computer when I'm carrying it in a bag (nice and stuffy) and it runs for a few hours with the vents blocked off...

Anyway, any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Seems like some device with wake privileges is doing it. Cut any background programs too to test.

 

Thanks.

Yes, I was thinking the same. The difficulty is sitting in front of the computer to wait until something happens... today I left it at 8h00, nothing happened all day, came back at 7:00 PM still nothing, went out to take the trash, came back to find it on... no idea when exactly or what might have been running other than firefox. I mean services or other programs that might run-wake-and-quit.

If I quit all the programs before putting to sleep it defeats the purpose since what I want is to keep the state of all of them... otherwise I turn the computer off, after all, it boots in a few seconds.

I can see this one is going to be a real pain to track...

I've been unplugging all cables, now I'll put in in airplane mode in case it is some WOL on wifi...

 

I more meant you could see if maybe a background process is doing it and then if it stops it you know you need to track down which application is doing it. I wonder if there is an event log for what triggered a waking command....