MVIF - Ghost start-ups from sleep or power-off

[Krab19]

Hello all!!

Before i describe the issue which I am having, I will provide my specs. Please note that the OS is Windows 8 Pro 64-bit, which was a clean install last Saturday once the build was completed.

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Formula
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K
Cooler: Corsair H100i
GPU: ASUS GTX 780 DCII
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 2x8GB 1866 Mhz
Case: Corsair Air 540
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro (Boot Drive)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (Data Drive)
PSU: Corsair AX760

Just in case, I have the following peripherals:

Keyboard: Corsair K70 (Connected to USB 2.0 ports on motherboard)
Mouse: Corsair M65 (Connected to USB 2.0 ports on motherboard)
Monitors: 2 x Asus VS248H-P

Now for the issue itself. As the title says, I am getting Ghost start-ups. It has happened from both sleep and power-off states. Strangely, this seems to happen more so during the late evening - early morning hours. My first thought was that either wake on LAN was enabled or some scheduled task was going off. I had disabled the wake on LAN from the Broadcom Wi-fi module as well as the Intel Ethernet connector, and I quickly went through my scheduled tasks and I disabled any task which I believed could have caused an issue. I then went to the advance power settings in the power options and disabled "Allow wake Timers" under the 'Sleep' tab.

Unfortunately, the only time which I was able to catch my computer doing one of these ghost start-ups was last night, just after midnight. This was shortly (approximately 20 minutes) after shutting down the computer. I was able to go into the Task Scheduler and see what tasks had started within the past hour. I have taken a screenshot of this and it should be attached in this post. All other times this has happened I have either been sleeping and I would wake up to see it on, or I would come home to see that it's on.

I am unsure of what to do or try next, so hopefully someone will be able to help me out!

Thanks in advance!!

[HiVizMan]

Thank you guys, will pass this on to the software team.

[skarpuk]

Thanks you HiVizMan, I hope they fix soon because I like Ai suite 3 I need usb boost, fan expert... Happy finally found who cause problem hope that helps for everyone not sure.

[Krab19]

Thanks for the input Skarpuk. I will definitely test that out and see what happens

[skarpuk]

You welcome hope it helps. I like Aisuite3 waiting fix. After you test let as know.

[Krab19]

Looks like we got the culprit!! From what I am seeing so far, Skarpuk is correct, AI Suite III seems to be causing the issue. Since I have formatted my computer the only software I had installed was the WiFi+Bluetooth driver, Nvidia driver, chrome and Java. Before tonight I did not see a single ghost boot-up/wake-up. Once I installed AI Suite III I put the computer to sleep, not 2 minutes later it woke up. I then turned it off, and again 2 minutes later it turned on. I then un-installed AI Suite III and ran the cleaning utility and thus far the ghost boot-up/wake-up has stopped.

Thanks again to Skarpuk!! Hopefully the team which HiVizMan contacted will get right on this 😄

[skarpuk]

I am glad we all together found who cause a problems 🙂 now need find which exactly section doing this until asus fix it totally.

[skarpuk]

hi guys, quick update after tested 3 hours find out 99% wifi engine with wifi go software from AiSuite3 causing wake up from sleep or shutdown. Will keep testing overnight to make sure 100% happy weekend :cool:

update test finished no wake up anymore if you want use AiSuite 3 make sure you not install wifi engine and wifi go until asus fix it just for reference error I will get in system after installed wifi go with engine: The BCM42RLY service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. Hope this helps 🙂