Laptop keeps waking with lid closed when mouse moved

I have two Asus K55N notebooks for my kids. I have the system set to sleep when the lid is closed. It does that but any mouse movement will wake it up. Bump the desk, the mouse, whatever and the laptop wakes even with the lid closed. I went into device manager and selected the mouse (HID Compliant Mouse) and under power management tab unchecked "allow this device to wake the computer". With a cheap mouse, it won't wake the computer. But problem is when I open the lid and the computer wakes, then the mouse isn't detected, I have to unplug and replug in the mouse.

With a Logitech wireless mouse, even with unchecking the "allow this device to wake the computer" it still wakes the computer.

Any other suggestions? Any way to have an app to check to see if the lid is closed and go back to sleep if it is?

I'm at a loss.

 

Seems the system is working as it should?

If you want the mouse to not wake up the system: turn it off or don't move it...

 

Umm, since when should a system wake up with the lid closed when you tell it not to? And it's not "not moving the mouse" just a slight bump of the desk. And getting kids to turn off their mouse, it's hard enough to get them to close their computers when done.

And I found this article: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html

Step 5 is what worked. Disabling from device manager should do the same thing, but it doesn't. I need to use the command line of powercfg for some reason. It now works as it should.

 

The Google Fu is strong with this one.

Odd... sounds like a bug. I guess you can't always rely on the GUI though. Glad you got it configured properly! :thumbsup:

 

Try to go into device manager and View > Devices by Connection.

You might find that your "wireless mouse" is actually mutliple subsystems. i.e. there's the base unit that connects to the USB port, the mouse itself, and other HIDs for special features of the mouse. You probably need to make sur "allow this device to wake the computer" is unticked for all components related to the wirless mouse.

Also, I think, if "allow this device to wake the computer" is enabled for the specific USB hub that the mouse receiver is connects to, then it's possible that the mouse movement signals are ignored and don't wake-up the computer, but the fact that there is any activity on the USB bus, that may be what triggers a wake-up call. And if you have two USB hubs chained one into another (not uncomon inside the PC itself), that if the parent hub is set to be allowed to wake the computer, and the child hub is set to be allowed to be powered-down to save power, then that second hub could be "woken-up" by bus activity which the parent hub might see as a reason to trigger a wake-up call for the whole PC.

USB power management policies can get messy...

I had an issue for the longest time where turning-off my office light would wake-up the PC!? The EM interference was causing wireless mouse base to wake-up to see if the mouse was sending a signal... I finally, found that the issue could be resolved by properly setting these wake-up settings in device manager.

You should be able to set things up in device manager that makes everything work seamlessly as you want to without any unintended side-effect.