Keep network card awake

kelper said:

@Man 11

You are quoting us twice in each reply....

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I am sure I clicked "Quote" once only.

hsehestedt said:

Oh, I just had another idea. This seems to be a recurring theme here: Problems caused by fast startup. Try this:
Open Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power buttons do > Change settings that are currently unavailable. If enabled, disable Fast Startup and save the changes.

I realize that you may not know if this solves the issue for a while, but please report back whether this ends up helping or not.

Personal note: I disable this option on every single machine I own. There are a number of different issues that it is known to cause, and I find it easier to simply turn it off as part of my normal Windows setup procedures than to run into some other oddity that I end up having to troubleshoot at a later date.

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That might be the answer as I always have hibernate, thus, fast startup, disabled. This issue never happened with my Realcrap Wlan card.

Fabler2 said:

That might be the answer as I always have hibernate, thus, fast startup, disabled.

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I'm not sure that I understand what it is that you are saying here. Forgive me for not understanding. Fast Startup and Hibernation are completely independent of each other. You can turn on or off either one independent of the other.

hsehestedt said:

I'm not sure that I understand what it is that you are saying here. Forgive me for not understanding. Fast Startup and Hibernation are completely independent of each other. You can turn on or off either one independent of the other.

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When I run CMD (admin) command powercfg.exe /hibernate off then fast startup and hibernate are removed.

hsehestedt said:

Oh, I just had another idea. This seems to be a recurring theme here: Problems caused by fast startup. Try this:
Open Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power buttons do > Change settings that are currently unavailable. If enabled, disable Fast Startup and save the changes.

I realize that you may not know if this solves the issue for a while, but please report back whether this ends up helping or not.

Personal note: I disable this option on every single machine I own. There are a number of different issues that it is known to cause, and I find it easier to simply turn it off as part of my normal Windows setup procedures than to run into some other oddity that I end up having to troubleshoot at a later date.

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I disabled fast startup and left the laptop shutdown for 4 days then restarted it, the issue still exists.

Unzip the driver and update the driver from device manager after you point to the unzipped folder.
-https://we.tl/t-7xiRtEdtG6

If I understand you correctly, you are certain that your laptop is actually shut down (not in hibernate nor sleep nor hybrid sleep) and that it isn't scheduled to power on automatically (in BIOS) nor is configured to be powered on remotely either through Wake-on-LAN (WOL) or through Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN). That is, it's genuinely off, and it genuinely stays genuinely off for 3+ days. I mean, you'd think that WOL/WoWLAN can only be used to wake a computer from sleep or hibernate, and you'd think wrong, as some computers actually do have the capability to be powered on through WOL/WoWLAN, i.e., in addition to the capability to be woken up through WOL/WoWLAN. On computers that can be powered on through WOL/WoWLAN, typically it will be possible to disable that capability (also in BIOS). Disabling WOL/WoWLAN should also be possible in Device Manager by going into the Advanced tab on the Properties window panel of (each one of) the network adapter(s).

Seeing as you don't have the Power Management tab in Device Manager, you can press Win+R to bring up the Run dialog. Next, paste the command control.exe powercfg.cpl,,3 into the box and press Enter to bring up the advanced power settings of the currently active power plan.
(Another way to get there is through Control Panel ➜ Power Options ➜ Change plan settings ➜ Change advanced power settings.)
Under the Wireless Adapter Settings, change the Power Saving Mode to Maximum Performance (for On battery and Plugged in, except maybe if you are concerned about saving battery power, but it doesn't hurt to try it, and besides, you can still always decide to change it back later).



Although the article link above is about waking the laptop from sleep, especially the part about restarting the WiFi adapter and the part about killing/restarting the WLAN AutoConfig service seem like they might also be worth giving a shot. Further, the article explains how it is possible to create a task in Task Scheduler to run the command(s) in question automatically after waking the laptop from sleep. For your specific use case, instead, you'd want to create a task that runs automatically after a user logs on to Windows, at least if we can assume that the command(s) let(s) you achieve your goal of restoring your WiFi connection for you. Such a task should be pretty straightforward to create in Task Scheduler.