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[John Hafer]

Hello, I am a new poster and am new here.

I have a new D-Link DNS-321 with 2X WD 500GB SATA drives and all seems to be working well except that now my Dell XPS-420 does not want to go into sleep mode as long as the DNS-321 is connected and powered on.  If I shut down the DNS-321, the Dell goes into sleep as normal.  When the DNS-321 is connected to my router, and powered on, and I command the Dell to sleep, it starts to and the power button light even starts blinking as normal.  But then after a few seconds, it wakes up again on its own.

I do have the Dell's LAN card set not to wake up the computer in the BIOS so I am not sure if the issue is with the Dell or with the D-Link NAS.  All I know is shutting down the NAS allows the Dell to go to sleep normally.

My monitor does go into the powersaving mode not come back on until I press a key so the computer is doing something, but not sure what.  Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you in advance for any replies.

[fordem]

The problem is with the Dell and it's operating system.

[John Hafer]

Ok, I fixed it!  I went into the event viewer and it confirmed the PC was waking up due to the network card.  I went into the network card's properties and unchecked all the references to having the card bring the PC out of Hybrid-Sleep mode.

Now, when the PC goes into Hybrid-Sleep, it stays off until I press a key to wake it up.

Still not sure what the network card was getting to tell the PC to wake up but the DNS-321 really added to the PC waking up every 4 to 6 minutes.  Anyone know how the DNS-321 could be doing this?

[fordem]

Have you ever used the scheduled downloads feature on your DNS-321?

In most cases communications between the computer and the NAS are initiated by the computer, but, you can configure the DNS-321 to download files from a network share - this will cause it to try to access the computer, which in turn will cause it to wake.