Why is my pc waking up from sleep every night?

Question

My problem is that when I put it to sleep every night, after about 10 minutes it then wakes back up and 20 seconds or so later it goes into hibernation and switches back off. CMD says nothing has woken the system up and I've even gone as far as to disconnect the mouse, keyboard, Wi-Fi and even the HDMI and speakers cables to see if I could resolve it. I've gone into power management to make sure all "allow this device to wake up the pc" boxes are all unchecked and have run out of ideas now. If anyone has any insight as to why this is happening then please share... this is driving me crazy.

Possibly just windows 10 being....well, windows 10?


Pc specs.
MSI A68HM v2 mobo
A10 7850k
GTX 960
Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3

Answer

Go to www.howtogeek.com/ where they have a section for Win10 oddities. You can save a few bux every month by turning your computer off when you are not looking at anything.

Answer

This might be more avoiding the problem than helping it, but looking at your specs, wouldn't it be easier to  shut down the pc?

Why is my pc waking up from sleep every night?

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