In order to support “Wake on Lan” from “Power Off State (S5)”, I had to enable “Wake On By PCIe/PCI” in the bios of my Asus P9X79 Pro. A consequence seems (?) to be that moving the mouse or pressing a key from the keyboard also wakes the PC from “Sleep States (S2/3/4)”. This can be solved by disallowing those devices to wake the PC via their “Power Management” properties.
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- Disallow the Mouse to wake up the PC.
- Open Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers
- Double-Click on your Mouse or on your receiver if you use a wireless Mouse (Ex.: Logitech Nano Receiver).
- Go to the “Hardware” tab and select the device named “HID-compliant mouse” with type “Mice and other pointing devices”. Then click on the “Properties” button.
- In the “HID-Compliant mouse Properties” pane now opened, click on the button “Change settings”. This will add a tab “Power Management”. Open that tab.
- In the tab “Power Management”, uncheck the option “Allow this device to wake the computer”
- Disallow the Keyboard to wake up the Computer
- Open Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers
- Double-Click on your Keyboard or on your receiver if you use a wireless Keyboard (Ex.: Logitech Nano Receiver). NB.: my Bluetooth keyboard is displayed as “Logitech Elite Keyboard”.
- Go to the “Hardware” tab and select the device named “HID Keyboard Device” with type “Keyboards”. Then click on the “Properties” button.
- In the “HID Keyboard Device Properties” pane now opened, click on the button “Change settings”. This will add a tab “Power Management”. Open that tab.
- In the tab “Power Management”, uncheck the option “Allow this device to wake the computer”. NB.: if there is a “Sleep” button on the keyboard, it won’t work either to wake the PC from Sleep State !
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