Any Sony Vaio laptop owners here?

[ultimasimon]

I have a problem with my Vaio, actually not really a problem, more of an annoying quirk and wondered if any one here has had the same problem?

At precisely 10am every morning, the laptop decides its time for it to wake up from hibernation and then (after the battery has charged over night) announces "Your battery is fully charged". Damned annoying when you are either laying in, or have clients round who over-hear the above message in a tacky female American accent coming from the bedroom What battery is fully charged?

Ok, I have looked at settings in the BIOS, and there are no wake up alarm settings to alter. I have also looked carefully at all the battery saving options, and there is one for enabling start up by timer event, but it is disabled. I have looked through every piece of installed software and can find nothing to cause it to start at exactly 10 am - and you can set your watch by it.

Here's the odd bit. The Vaio has a mechanical sliding type wireless network switch and when it is 'on' it wakes itself up and when it is off it does not I presume that it is waking on LAN (WOL), but I only have a wireless router on this network, and that also has no 'alarm type' settings in it. The wireless network is secure with 64bit WEP enabled and fire-walled at each end.

Is it possible I am getting woken up from someone elses network? Or has my Vaio just flipped out and its a case of 'they all do that sir'??

Any sugggestions welcome

[GregE240]

Is Windows Update, or Anti Virus update attempting to make a check for updates at that time?

[Plotloss]

Anything in the logs?

If there is an event fired at 10am every day that may lead you to a culprit...

[puggit]

I've got a Vaio - but not sure how I can help

I'd suggest maybe hardwiring it in to the internet, and see if it accesses anything.

[ultimasimon]

Thanks Greg, I checked that but their not the culprits.

Plotless, why I didn't even think of looking is beyond me, and I call myself an IT profesional The result was returned from the log at 10.00

The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \DARTHVADER on the network DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{B203FA63-5AF3-4B8A-AE59-FA548CBA94FB}. The data is the error code.

So am I right in presuming that the network driver is the problem, as it is not correctly supported during hibernation? Darthvader is my internet gateway and fire box btw

[Plotloss]

Certaintly sounds plausable.

Have you checked the Event ID on Usenet?

[puggit]

Working on the phones in IT support, it's incredible how many admins never bother to check the event logs.

We're all guilty of it though