Wake from sleep by mouse/kb - HP Z4 G4 Xeon

[Dave_Burton]

"Pentaxer" asked a question...
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Wake-from-sleep-by...

...which, unfortunately, has been locked, so I can't post an answer. Here's what he asked:

"Help me, please.  Is it possible to wake HP Z4 G4 Xeon / Win10-64 up from sleep mode by mouse / keyboard? Not from hibernate.  In manual: the station can be wake up only by power button. It is very inconvenient"

I think the solution is to use a PS/2 port, rather than a USB port.

My HP Z6 G4 awakens from sleep on a keyboard press, but not a mouse movement. The reason is presumably that my keyboard is plugged into a PS/2 port, and the mouse is plugged into a USB port. (Even if the mouse is plugged into the front panel "HP Sleep and Charge" port, it won't awaken the sleeping computer.)

For both the keyboard and the mouse, I went into Device Manager, found the device, went to properties, went to Power Management, and enabled "allow this device to wake the computer." (That worked for the PS/2 keyboard, but not for the USB mouse.)

I no longer recall whether I had to adjust any BIOS settings.

I use a PS/2 port for the keyboard because I really like my old PS/2 keyboard. But if you don't have an old PS/2 keyboard, you can presumably get an inexpensive "USB male to PS/2 female" adapter, and use the purple PS/2 keyboard port on the computer with a USB keyboard. (I haven't tried that.)

Most or all old PS/2 mice were crummy roller-ball designs, which you wouldn't want to use. But some nice Microsoft optical mice used to come with USB male to PS/2 female adapters, so that they could be used on old computers with PS/2 mouse ports. You might be able to find one, online, by searching for: PS/2 USB Microsoft mouse.

Note: I always use the shift key to awaken a sleeping computer, since pressing it won't have undesirable side-effects, unlike most other keys.