Unexpected wake up from Standby; BSOD

Two issues: 1) Unexpected wakeup from standby. 2) Unexpected BSOD (blue screen of death)

Hardware: E6400, WinXP Pro SP3, Dell 1510 Wifi, Seagate ST9250421ASG Hard Drive, HD BIOS: IRRT, Intel Matrix 8.6.0.1007

1) On my office network, I have successfully put my E6400 on standby. I use a Linksys WRT54GS with dd-wrt firmware. On a recent trip to a hotel, I noticed that my laptop woke up after 20 minutes in standby while connected to their wifi network. I found that if I went under the power management tab under the properties for the card, that there was an option to "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby". When I deselected this, the laptop stayed in standby. Curious, I reselected this option when I came home and my laptop, in fact, still remained in standby.

Q: Do certain routers or networks send signals to the network card to wake the laptop up? Why does this behavior not occur on my home network?

2) On the same trip, I received my first BSOD. Up to the stay, the laptop was rock solid. I got the dreaded iastor.sys DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Blue Screen. It occurred twice: once shortly after boot up, next while using IE7. I don't think there is any pattern as to when it occurs. If I see the pattern continue while on my office network, I'm going to retry installing XP and install the Matrix Driver first. I read that the order of installation is critical to prevent this issue. Otherwise, I'm inclined to think it is related to the network I was connected to.

Q: Can this behavior be related to the network connection also? Has anyone else witnessed this behavior?

 

The unexpected wakeup from standby could be due to many reasons.
First, virus - do a virus scan to check for any trojans. Second, check the status of 'wake on LAN' in your power options and/or BIOS. Third, check to see if you have any scheduled tasks and disable them.

For your BSOD, check your ram and hard drive for errors using Dell's utilities. Also try and reinstall your wifi/network drivers.

 

Thanks. I have been very careful with this install and have not noticed any viruses/malware. To be sure I ran another scan. I did confirm that that the wake up from standby only occurs with the hotels wifi network. On other networks, ie. my office and starbucks, the issue does not exist. Also, as noted I am also able to solve the problem at the hotel by disabling the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby" check box. I'm just curious what setting in their router causes this to happen.

The BSOD seems also related to their network. I have not had problems since getting back to my office for two days. At the hotel, the BSOD occurred on two ocassions on the same day. And as I said, I never had the problem for over a month before the trip. I wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing the same phenomenon. I'm pretty sure this is related to how their network interfaces with the wifi card. I'll wait for another couple of weeks to check for stability. If I see another BSOD, I'll try reinstalling wifi drivers, etc...

 

I've seen this happen with systems that have network or wifi drivers (from Intel's site) that weren't from Dell.

If not your case check both lan and wifi settings for WOL (wake on lan) settings.

 

years ago i had a dell E1505 the worst notebook i have owned and i kept getting this SAME exact BSOD it a shock that after all these years they still have this same problem

This thing somehow i related to networking though.