Greetings! So recently, i spent a few hours coding software. After i was done and i shut off my pc, i noticed both of the ethernet lights were on and blinking. Does this mean that Microsoft is sending data to their servers before the PC fully shuts off? I am scared that this might be the thing it does. How can i get rid of this issue? I have no idea if it’s related to Windows or the PC itself.
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Does your PC support Wake-On-Lan? Effectively, leaving the port powered to allow switching on over the network
It does, but wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS.
Try toggling ErP setting or similarly named EU energy setting in your UEFI. This should resolve the lights being on.
Windows by default doesn’t fully power off when you tell it to shut down. It goes into hibernation and keeps the network open for updates and will sometimes power back on to complete these updates.
If you want to fully power off, hold the left shift key when you click shut down. Or turn the power off elsewhere (eg. psu or power bar.) I’m sure there’s another way to do it, or to prevent the behavior entirely.
You computer has a feature for Out of Band management. Either WoL as others have mentioned or vPro(Intel), iLon(HP), iDrac(Dell), as well a few other less popular systems depending on who makes your mainboard or NIC.
This leaves the power on to the network card so that it can be used even with your computer off. It does not have access to your normal computer in the this case. Just the ability to turn on/off the system and sometimes options to update BIOS/UEFI firmware and send a console image to either a client or browser.
The lights are blinking because broadcasts packets from other devices on your LAN are sent to every device. This is normal and expected behavior.
As other said, it’s surely related to the LAN traffic and not the WAN traffic only your router sends some packets but it shouldn’t be Windows. Little tips if you don’t want telemetry and tracking, simply use Linux.
I dualboot both Windows and Linux. I use windows just for pyinstaller and compiling, while i daily drive Arch Linux with dwm.
Ok great!
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He needs to install GhostBSD to defeat them.
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Its the other CPU in your cpu/nic
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I believe you can stop it by turning off a feature called “fast startup” or something like that.
I’m sure it’s legacy thing from back in the day, flashing means it’s sending or receiving, solid means it’s idle.
disconnect ur pc from power physically if the behavior continues which i would guess it will its probably something connected to ur wifi doing something in a dumb way if it stops thats wierd as fuck but forcing the pc to shut down by holding the power button should do the trick since that usually tells the motherboard to tell the power supply to shut off and i dont think windows gets a say on that.
