GA-970A-UD3 waking from sleep by itself

[brad1138]

When I hit the sleep button, some times when I come back hours later it is on again. Last night I woke up at 5am to the running computer, I had put it to sleep at about midnight. Also, at 5am I got up, hit the sleep button again and it went to sleep and instantly started back up. I hit the sleep button again and it went to sleep properly. It has done this with 2 different CPUs and power supplies.

One other thing that I don't know if it is normal or related. When I click restart, sometimes it restarts as every other computer I have ever had. Other times it shuts down, the fans and lights all go off for about 2-3 seconds, then they come back on and it powers up.

Do I have a bad MoBo? I have a FX-8350 and am overclocking it, but it did this with other non OCed CPUs.

Thanks.

FX-8350/16GB DDR3 @1760/Radeon HD-7850/Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

[Vezina]

Disable overclocking and restore defaults.
If it does the same report to gigabyte support the issue.

[brad1138]

I believe I have fixed this problem. I found this tutorial http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-fix-computer-keeps-waking.htm and I followed the 1st 2 steps, disabling "wake by mouse" and "wake by network". After that it hasn't woken by itself in a couple days. FWIW I talked to a couple other people with this board (rev 3.0) that said they have the same problem.

Hope this helps someone else with this problem.

Brad

P.S., it had nothing to do with Over Clocking.

[Vezina]

P.S., it had nothing to do with Over Clocking.

First step in troubleshooting is to disable overclocking

And first step when you set up the mobo is to go  into BIOS and disable anything you don t use.
Those items you are talking about are the first i turn off at initiial set-up

Nevertheless YOU should report the problems to Gigabyte support to fix their BIOS.

[brad1138]

P.S., it had nothing to do with Over Clocking.

First step in troubleshooting is to disable overclocking

And first step when you set up the mobo is to go  into BIOS and disable anything you don t use.
Those items you are talking about are the first i turn off at initiial set-up

I know, and I did turn those off in BIOS, only when I turned it off in Windows 7 did it fix it.

[agros]

That sleep button in the keyboard looks like evil to me. In the past when I pressed I got into big troubles, so I never touch it now