T60P wakes up on its own...

I am having problems with a work issued T60p. It seems it is waking up on its own! Early this morning I was awakened by the T60's critical battery alarm. I was pretty sure I put it to sleep mode (pressed the sleep button on Vista's start menu) after using it last night.

The other day I closed the lid which put the laptop in sleep mode, put the laptop inside the bag and after a few hours got it from the bag only to find it overheating as it had waken up on its own. Luckily it seems there was no damage.

I have upgraded the drivers to the latest, downloading these via the Thinkvantage update tool. The T60p is running Vista Enterprise Edition. Has anyone else encountered issues similar to mine? I always thought Thinkpads were rock solid with no major issues such as this.

 

Device Manager ->
+Network Adapters

Open properties for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Click Power Management Tab.

Uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer."

 

Scarlin, thanks I will try this out.

EDIT: I checked and the option is already disabled (grayed out) and cannot be unchecked. I guess there probably is another device waking up the computer from Vista sleep mode.

 

One of the reasons I don't use suspend for anything other than my media center machines that need to wake up and record TV.

 

I have 2 other PCs running Vista which have no problems with Vista's sleep mode. IMO this is a defect in the T60p's hardware or drivers. It is also a dangerous defect as outlined in my first post where the system woke up while inside the bag and started overheating.

 

Unfortunately, I recommend only using hibernate or a full shutdown. I've seen vista wake up on my T61 while in the bag

I only use hibernate or full shutdown now.

Jeff