Showing posts with label Windows 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 10. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2016

Computer wakes up during night on its own

I've had the issue with my desktop for ages and now, after upgrading to Windows 10, my Asus laptop started to do the same - wake up during night w/o reason.
I followed this post to check:
powercfg –lastwake
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
and disabled wake-up settings for my mouse and network adapter. This didn't help.

Next I followed this post and disabled the wake-up settings of the task:

Problem solved at last :)

Monday, December 28, 2015

Asus G73JW and Windows 10 freezing

I've just updated my relatively old Asus G73JW to windows 10 (fresh install - I don't like upgrades). All seem well until the 1st restart, when I'd end up with black screen after reboot. Couple hard-resets later and trying to disable various start-up programs (I was suspecting display drivers from NVidia) and situation wasn't improving - sometimes I was able to log-in, but system would freeze randomly after couple seconds/minutes. Sometimes I'd end up with BOD with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION.
Next step was to boot into safe mode - interestingly, I couldn't get into "Safe mode with networking" (option 5) - that ended up with the BOD. Luckily, just "Safe mode" (option 4) worked fine and system wasn't freezing. This got me thinking that maybe it was the network card causing the problems. So I went to Device Manager and disabled the following:

This resolved my issues with both, BOD as well as freezing. I'm running on WiFi, so having the physical LAN disabled is not an issue for me, but there might be updated driver somewhere that might fix the issue as well.