Check in Device Manager and make sure under the network adapter under power
management it isn't allowed to wake the machine up.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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"DRT" <DRT@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Great suggestion. There is an entry started on 7:14:46 AM on the morning
> I found my notebook had powered itself on. I was sound asleep at that
> time.
>
> Information
> 5/24/2007 7:14:46 AM
> Tcpip
> 4201
> None
> The system detected that network adapter Local Area Connection 2 was
> connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation.
>
> In addition, there are about a dozen of these duplicated at 7:14:46 AM and
> 7:14:47 AM. I think this might be the cause of the unexpected wakeups.
> The notebook's Ethernet hardware is somehow "glitching" and waking up the
> computer eventhough nothing is connected to the notebook's Ethernet port.
>
> I am pretty sure I wasn't sleep-walking because there was no Ethernet
> cable or jack around to plug the notebook into! :)
>
>
> --
>
> Paul Smith wrote:[color=green]
>> Can you check in Event Logs / System to see what time the system is
>> actually waking up?
>>
>> If it's windows update you should find entries like 'Windows Servicing is
>> setting package KB936824_2(Update) state to Install Requested(Install
>> Requested)'
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