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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by londons_explore on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:22PM (#28646038)
When windows is hibernated, if a scheduled task is set for a specific time, it will use the hardware wake-up feature to turn on the machine and run the scheduled task.

Windows has a lot of 3am scheduled tasks for all kinds of random stuff (disk defrag, various update checks, etc). Any of those can cause the system to reawaken.

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