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Good afternoon all,

I have a problem whereby everytime I hibernate my laptop (Acer Aspire 4937G) and put it in my laptop bag, when I take out my laptop it is really hot (about 70 degrees and I could hear it spinning).

From what I understand, hibernate totally turns off the power, so the laptop shouldn't have been hot,

I was wondering what makes the laptop turn on by itself? What could have caused the problem?

I do have a problem with my battery but that shouldn't make the laptop capable of turning on by itself could it?

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If you're positive that the laptop has actually hibernated in the first place (easy to verify by opening the laptop up and seeing if Windows resumes from Hibernation or just comes back to life), then there's something waking the laptop up. Yes, it's possible for the RTC Alarm to wake the system up even from Suspend or Hibernate.

My first guess is to think that it's a Scheduled Task of some kind triggering the laptop to wake up. See what's running there and configured to wake the system if needed.

Also, when you hibernate the system, is it plugged in or are you already on battery?

What's the system doing when you open it up? What's running? No laptop built in the last several years gets very hot while idling unless you put it in an oven, so it's doing something. See if you can figure out what it is, or come up with a low impact way to log it.

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