How to stop computer waking up from sleep when LAN connected.

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Published on 2009-07-01T15:33:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 3:09 UTC
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I have a Compaq desktop machine that wakes up from sleep only when the LAN cable is connected to it. The WOL feature is DISABLED in the BIOS, so why does it keep waking up? And why is it getting told to wake up? I was under the impression that an application or service has to specifically send a message to the machine in order to wake it up but I am not aware of any software on my network that would do this.

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