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PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes
- anonu 4y agoThis past week there was a thunderstorm, fried my desktop. Didn't think that was still a thing. Reading some other comments about computer weirdness: my suggestion is get a good UPS or surge protector.
- nashashmi 4y agoAfter installing Microsoft flow on my laptop I had the same occurrence where it would randomly start in my bag. Used powercfg to troubleshoot and saw the problem was with Microsoft flow and so I disabled it
- wyred 4y agoI have a similar weird behavior where if I push in or out my chair from under my computer desk, my USB devices would disconnect and reconnect. My wild guess is that my secretlabs chair has some sort of magnet that’s causing it.
- nyokodo 4y agoAre you always in the chair? Then, perhaps you’re the magnet.
- nlawalker 4y agoMakes me think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017
- OttPeterR 4y agoSomeone else in the comments of this post has the same issue and they think it’s static from the weave of the material. (I lost track of the comment, sorry for not linking it)
- avidphantasm 4y agoIt’s a custom PC, they’re lucky it wakes from sleep at all.
- politelemon 4y agoCustom built PCs are overall more efficient, cost effective, and reliable than anything prebuilt due to their nature. But it does require a general understanding of its parts. Perhaps you are lacking some understanding of custom builds, or it's anecdotal data? Either way that does not represent the entire subsection of computing.
- Hellion 4y ago> more efficient, cost effective, and reliable than anything prebuilt due to their nature Absolutely untrue, and I’ve run the numbers to prove it. Prebuilt PCs have lower TCO because they extensively test configurations and have aggressive pricing around support contracts. Every broken pc costs them! Some vendors are better than others, as well. Now, if we’re talking about gaming PCs, the numbers are a little different there. It makes sense to roll your own for that. But for most people, building their own pc yields nothing but the entertainment of building their own pc.
- Tsiklon 4y agoOut of interest, when do you have the cost of the rebuild written off in your calculations - many PC building enthusiasts enjoy a "Ship of Theseus" experience with their equipment; replacing parts piecemeal as and when they deem it necessary. With the prebuild OEMs their unifying warranty is indeed a plus, but it becomes a curse when it's finished - it is frequently not possible to replace failed parts on these systems at reasonable expense, due to customised model-specific parts (non-standard motherboard shapes, non-ATX power supplies, weird CPU Cooler mounting hardware) - in the gaming world this is alive and well today in Dell's Alienware and own brand gaming PCs, and in the workstation world, basically anything Dual Socket is frequently super custom. The custom build may have more utility after one of it's standardised components fails out of warranty, as this standardisation allows for a choice of replacement (either in matters of cost or performance). If the prebuild fails out of warranty you may have some eWaste on your hands if a non standardised component fails.
- tpmx 4y agoMy Windows PC randomly wakes from sleep because the mouse moves like 1/2000 DPI in some direction because of air movements or some heavy truck driving by nearby my house. Razer mouse, in case it matters. I think Microsoft could save a whole lot of energy usage globally by pushing a more sensible algorithm with an update.
- orangepurple 4y agoIf it's wireless flip the switch underneath the mouse to power it off.
- tpmx 4y agoThat doesn't scale. You need to make it frictionless to the end user. (And I'm using a wired mouse since I hate changing batteries.)
- dvtrn 4y agoPardon my confusion but… …what? Is there a laugh being had that’s going over my head? I’m still kinda waking up
- Rebelgecko 4y agoMost people are lazy. A software solution is going to be more effective than a wetware one.
- tpmx 4y agoAnd those that aren't lazy will not automatically learn about what they "should do". Nevermind that it's just stupid to tell people what to manually do when it's possible to automate it via software.
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- kenniskrag 4y agoMy keyboard light goes off and on if I toggle my desk fan.
- pvaldes 4y ago(Hum, yess, get more close to the camera...)
- kencausey 4y agoI recommend enabling and using hibernate. insta-edit: That said, I can confirm that while some hibernated devices require using the power button to wake, others will continue to monitor input devices. So your mileage may vary.
- thefz 4y agoFrom my experience, mouse needs to click AND move to wake from hibernate, while keyboard input does nothing
- thescriptkiddie 4y agoFWIW my PC will wake from keyboard input while hibernating but not mouse.
- 13of40 4y agoReminds me of the classic "every time I flush the toilet my computer reboots". (The toilet caused a water pressure drop that made the well pump kick in, causing a power drop, rebooting the computer.)
- andreareina 4y agoESD?
- hulitu 4y agoYes.
- rzzzt 4y agoOffice chair interference theorists, assemble: - My PC plays a weird sound whenever I stand up from the desk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950402 - AriedK's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631096 - Sitting on gas lift chairs can generate an EMI spike which blanks your monitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036652 - Bug: Office chair turns off monitors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978004
- thesuitonym 4y agoDon't forget the curious case of the 500 mile email: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
- oneplane 4y agoThat one is great. We still get real-world examples of similar issues where people migrate applications and they suddenly don't work anymore. After 10 such attempts the common denominator was distance, turns out someone set the network latency limit to 1 ms and when you migrate an application to a different datacenter the network isn't sub-1ms anymore.
- K-Wall 4y agoOr the my car has issues based on the flavor ice cream I purchase. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
- MrStonedOne 4y agoIn college I was told about a case with punchcard mainframes where it would crash around the same time in the process of running a long complicated multi step calculation. The place had under floor wires and tiled flooring. One was lose and a worker feeding data in would walk across it at the same point in the process, generating an emi spike.
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- thefz 4y agoI fought for a year with a similar issue: when getting up from my chair, sometimes my monitor lost the image for a second. Turned out to be a SecretLab's particular weave accumulating a lot of static and discharging through the chair's feet when getting up because the base then made contact with the frame, generating a proper EMP disrupting the Displayport signal in my cable.
- cercatrova 4y agoElectromagnetic pulse pulse
- thefz 4y agoThank you
- tecleandor 4y agoSeems like you're not the first to find that! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017
- razemio 4y agoIn our offices, I could rub my shoes on the carpet and ALL monitors 7+ would blackout for 1-2 seconds but only if I had my headphones connected.
- bilegeek 4y agoI used to get mysterious lockups on my personal PC. Turns out I had a habit of touching the case with my leg, and when enough static built up on my chair, the zap from my leg would crash it. The thing is still going, knock on wood!
- formerly_proven 4y agoA lot of DIY PC cases are almost certainly trash in regards to EMI. One of the reasons for all the scraping interlocking tabs on OEM PCs isn't just that they're cheap to make, but also to ensure a good connection between panels - OEM PCs have to pass EMI tests, DIY PC cases don't.
- mrkramer 4y agoMy Windows laptop use to wake from sleep because of postponed Windows updates. I took me some time to realize what's the cause; it sucked for me because I would put my laptop to sleep and then I would go to sleep but freaking Windows would wake me up from sleep. We had hard time going to sleep together at the same time.
- masklinn 4y agoDoes it shutdown afterwards? I’ve had a recurring issue where I put the computer to sleep in the evening and in the morning I have to boot it from shutdown.
- mrkramer 4y ago>Does it shutdown afterwards? No it doesn't shutdown, it wakes from sleep and it stays like that. Then I have to install Windows updates and restart it in order for updates to be applied. At least it taught me not to postpone Windows updates. >I’ve had a recurring issue where I put the computer to sleep in the evening and in the morning I have to boot it from shutdown. Maybe your computer has some power issues or it might be operating system? And if it is laptop check your battery life because when laptop is in sleep mode battery drains as well but slower than when laptop is awake. All in all check power and battery(if laptop).
- Noumenon72 4y agoLots of fun war stories in this one, including [spoilers] magnetic bracelets making laptops think they're closed, monitors going off when you stand up due to static discharge from the chair's gas cylinder, and being next to the elevator.
- Nomentatus 4y agoAnd less fun ones, like the story that some American soldiers supposedly made Vietnamese women dressed in nylon stockings (to create static) walk well ahead of them on patrols to set off mines ahead of them, killing the women. Dunno if it's true but 'twas said.
- temporallobe 4y agoSounds like war crimes.
- mechanical_bear 4y agoSounds like made up nonsense.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoAnybody wearing anything would set off anti personnel mines. Or was this static supposed to setting of anti tank mines?
- pxmpxm 4y agoAnti-tank mines aren't a concern for people though, unless you happen to be in/around a tank.
- MaxBarraclough 4y agoClearly they need to flip the switch to More magic.
- pimlottc 4y agoFor those unfamiliar with the reference: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
- bachmeier 4y agoMy son was scared as hell because he was hearing voices in his bedroom late at night. I used his bedroom as my office during the day while WFH during the pandemic. The speaker picked up a radio station and played it at low volume when I hibernated the computer for the day.
- ankaAr 4y agoI would sh*t myself
- dehrmann 4y agoReminds me of jump scare internet pranks.
- mzg 4y agoWhen I was a teen I had a guitar amp that would, if plugged into an effects pedal with certain settings, pick up a Spanish-language radio station. No clue how!
- fhrow4484 4y agoSame happened with simply a cable plugged, I think the jack cable acted as an antenna. The length of the cable would be a multiple of the right frequency or something like that, it'd catch a random AM radio
- rcfox 4y agoAM radio is such a simple modulation scheme that even a piece of grass can be used to demodulate it, with enough power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
- ajot 4y agoWell, this article [0] shows a guitar FX pedal design that can be used as a radio receiver. Maybe you could get a shortwave radio signal? [0] https://acidbourbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/a-74xx-defined-radio/ https://acidbourbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/a-74xx-defined-...
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- mattlondon 4y agoM2 MBP wakes itself enough to show the battery meter all the time when an external mouse is connected. I have to unplug the mouse to stop it bleeping and blooping every 5 to 30 seconds throughout the night. Mouse is a Logitech "gaming" mouse.
- ineptech 4y agoMy computer wakes up randomly in the night, I've always assumed it was due to the mouse moving a pixel from random vibration of my desk. And, side note, would it be too much to ask that after a billion dev-hours effort in to the most popular consumer OS on earth, that it could figure out that a 1-pixel movement at 3:28 AM does not mean I want my display to light up and stay on for a full 60 seconds? And while we're at it, why is the only way to send Windows to sleep (one of the most common things I do with a hotkey) a four-key combination (win+x,u,s)?
- withinboredom 4y agoWin+L always put it to sleep instantly for me. Might be a setting somewhere to go to sleep when locking?
- layer8 4y agoThat’s probably due to the “System unattended sleep timeout” being set to zero.
- ineptech 4y agoI believe that's log out, I'm looking for sleep/hibernate.
- nazgulsenpai 4y agoIt's lock, for the record.
- layer8 4y agoIn Device Manager you can configure any USB device to not wake the computer (“Allow This Device to Wake the Computer”). I usually do this for mice. > why is the only way to send Windows to sleep a four-key combination (win+x,u,s) Using OpenShell, the slightly shorter Win-Right-Return works for me. Some keyboards used to have a dedicated off/sleep/suspend key. You can map any shortcut you like using AutoHotKey, or you can bind a global keyboard shortcut to a batch file via a file shortcut in the start menu (Ctrl+Alt+something), or by pinning it to the task bar (Win-n).
- fortym2 4y agoLast winter this used to happen to me when changing bedsheets.
- markstos 4y agoMy computer started rebooting when I went to the next room for a drink of water. Turned out there was a loose floorboard and a short in the power supply. The motion of standing up was enough to trigger the short.
- avg_dev 4y agoPretty interesting stories in that thread like the magnetic bracelet stuff. This is a tangent and I’m sure others will see me as being oversensitive but I’ve always found it distasteful that the subreddit has master race in its name. I mean there are real people who have suffered serious consequence because of racism. Just my thoughts.
- bagpuss 4y agospoken like a true dirty console peasant https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0dXtOVi2yo&t=58s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0dXtOVi2yo&t=58s
- jrm4 4y agoGlad to see someone consider it. Black person here (I'm just one, mind you, not speaking for everyone). While there are other shifts in tech language that I'm glad we made, I personally am pretty cool with this one. I think it's because anyone with a brain knows that the concept of an actual "Master Race" is so hilariously stupid and ridiculous that this serves to, among other things, make fun of that concept as well -- given that being a "PC person" is at heart nothing at all like "identity," one can switch to this or that side at will.
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- theandrewbailey 4y agoA few winters ago, I had walked across my floor, and unplugged something. I discharged some static into the screw that holds the outlet's faceplate, and my nearby desktop PC woke up. It wasn't plugged into that outlet, but it must be on the same circuit. I've haven't been able to reproduce.
- foobarbecue 4y agoI had a printer that would do some sort of cleaning thing (sounded like paper feed) whenever I plugged in something to wall power
- Cort3z 4y agoI had a similar issue where my computer would sometimes wake from sleep when I entered the room, or even exit. Some times it even woke up when I wasn’t even home. This was quite annoying as you can imagine. It turned out that in my case the issue was that my connected mouse, a fancy super sensitive gaming mouse, somehow picked up some movement ( possibly resonance) when I walked heavily, closed the door, or something else made vibrations in the house. When I realized this, after a short internal rant about mouse input being a default wake up mechanism in windows, I was able to disable this feature and not worry about the computer randomly turning on anymore.
- penguin_booze 4y agoMy mental image after reading the title: sleep-walking police constable wakes up while he was changing clothes. Thought it'd be an interesting read, but there I was.
- Eleison23 4y agoI had a very simple problem of overheating CPU which was a source of consternation in my four-person household. I was working office hours during the day, and my girlfriend would use my home-built 486 PC for art and Internet access during the day. It was summer in San Jose. Girlfriend began to complain how unreliable my machine was, and I thought she was certainly daft, because it never ever crashed on me while I was using it intensively. I continued to discredit her experience until we moved out, at which point I opened the PC's case to discover that the CPU fan had become dislodged and wasn't effective for cooling the toasty little 486DX100, which was surely catastrophic in Silicon Valley's summer heat, and so I was finally able to accept girlfriend's testimony about how unreliable the thing was! Fast forward about 20 years; my father complained that his laptop locked up constantly, and I told him to get a nice cooling pad for it because he literally held it in his lap while using it. He took my advice and using it on the cooling pad eliminated the heat lockups, even without running the fans it included.
- hulitu 4y agoBuy yourself some cotton clothes.
- hanche 4y agoOld story – stuck printer unstuck by closing a curtain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159811
- hnburnsy 4y agoIf you have unexplained waking of your Windows PC check the wake on lan and/or power management properties of the network card. I had this problem and I swear some other IOT network device was sending a WOL magic packet to my PC.
- yencabulator 4y agoMy wife's M1 Macbook Air is powered by USB-C from a Dell monitor. When the laptop suspends after idle, after a moment the monitor goes into standby, which partially(?) wakes up the laptop and makes it ding, which wakes up the monitor. After about 30 seconds of idle, the laptop suspends again (/goes back into deeper sleep), and after a moment the monitor goes back into standby, which partially wakes up the laptop and makes it ding, which ...
- pulketo 4y ago1. Disconnect your optical mouse