Not sleeping

I have set my MacBook Pro to go to sleep every night, but for a while now, every morning when I wake up hours before the computer is supposed to wake up, I can see that it is not asleep. The light is not pulsating, and I am able to connect to it from other Macs. Today I tried briefly pressing a key on the MacBook Pro. The screen lit up with flashes of the screensaver and login box, and THEN the computer went to sleep. What is going on?

Reset SMC may help.
Apple suggests SMC reset for "Responding to display lid opening and closing on portable Macs".
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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Hey Pondini. It appears my Internal HD is not sleeping either.
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That's extreeeeeeeemly unlikely to change anything, unless you have some software that you loaded for the Maxtor (if so, just delete it and Restart).
As another poster (Kiraly, I think) says, that's like fixing a dripping faucet by tearing out the kitchen!
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Hi, AQB,
Yes, I solved it. Here are my notes on the issue:
See this web site:
http://mingersoft.com/blog/2011/12/why-wont-windows-automatically-sleep/
Better:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-8/fix-windows-8-1-will-sleep/
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powercfg -requestsoverride driver \filesystem\srvnet system
or
powercfg /requestsoverride driver srvnet system
or
powercfg /energy /output c:\temp\requests.htm
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http://mingersoft.com/blog/2011/12/why-wont-windows-automatically-sleep/
Better:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-8/fix-windows-8-1-will-sleep/
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