The hell? My computer turns on by itself...

[EstoyLoco]

see topic...

see below for computer specs...

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Lan card WOL?

Modems?

 

[Schadenfroh]

its because its possessed by skynet

 

[lobadobadingdong]

could be as simple as a bad power cord, try a different one.

 

[blodhi74]

as per JustAnAverageGuy, check wake on lan in Bios

 

[Amused]

Here's a hoot:

My mother has a couple touch lights in her bedroom. The kind where you just touch any metal part of the lamp and it turns on.

Well, her computer kept coming on on the other side of the house all by itself... and if it was left on with the monitor set to turn off, the monitor would come on at weird times for seemingly no reason. Then she made the connection: Any time one of the touch lamps was turned on or off, it would turn her computer or monitor on on the other side of the house.

She thought she had a ghost for months.

 

[ticktack]

but what abt the initial poster problem? is it reall solved

 

[cockeyed]

Go into the BIOS and turn off all of the "wake up on" stuff. I had the same problem a while back and had to do this to exorcise the "ghost."

 

[InlineFive]

I once had a bad USB port that would cause my system to turn itself on before I disabled it.

 

[EstoyLoco]

alll the wake on stuff are disabled...

I dont think its a power problem.. I'm using a Monster Power surge protector with clean power 2 phase filtering. Link: My overpriced surge protector

I did however put a new AN7 board in ;| hmm... since the 1st one I had went bad... didn't happen on the 1st board...

 

[EstoyLoco]

The other thing I suspect is Windows Power management?

But what the hell it controls all the way to when its off.. I know my PC that I built is ACPI compliant...

but anyways I've noticed this happen whenever I've put the computer into Hibernation...

I haven't seen it turn on itself, when I went to full shutdown...

 

[Afro000Dude]

Maybe there is a setting in your bios to turn on at a certain time? Mine has that and I use it to turn my computer on before I get home every day so it's waitin' for me.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: ticktack
but what abt the initial poster problem? is it reall solved

 

[Soapm]

Could it be heat? Try leaving the cover off and see if it still does it...

 

[corkyg]

Connect it to a UPS or surge protecting power strip and turn off the power at either of them There's now way the computer can turn itself on - no power!

 

[50]

¿Es posible que su es loco?

 

[BCinSC]

My Gateway 6400 does this all the time. Can't figure out why. Checked all settings, power, network. Only thing I can do is like corky-q says.

 

[EstoyLoco]

no im not really crazy and yes it is really a problem

I need the surge pro on all the time, since having it off doesn't really give u benefits of having it on..
plus my cable modem is hooked up to it...

The heat issue, how can it turn on the computer?

I'm gonna recheck the bios again... and check the board for any jumpers i might have missed...

I know the board came with it set on reset instead of default...
it almost blew up my cpu ;p voltage was up wayyyy tooo high... luckily the uguru chip immediately started making a ruckus and i realized it was stuck on reset cmos

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: EstoyLoco
no im not really crazy and yes it is really a problem

I need the surge pro on all the time, since having it off doesn't really give u benefits of having it on..
plus my cable modem is hooked up to it...

The heat issue, how can it turn on the computer?

I'm gonna recheck the bios again... and check the board for any jumpers i might have missed...

I know the board came with it set on reset instead of default...
it almost blew up my cpu ;p voltage was up wayyyy tooo high... luckily the uguru chip immediately started making a ruckus and i realized it was stuck on reset cmos

Yeah, check the BIOS's power management section again for any Wake On Ghost In Room type settings.
Quick story - I had baffled my computer science teachers in college with a testbed computer in the one room - it would always be on in the morning, even when they'd turned it off. Darn that wake up timer in the BIOS.

 

[EstoyLoco]

no everything is disabled....

 

[corkyg]

OK - I have a separate UPS for my cable modem and router - it is on all the time. But the UPS for the computer is my On/Off switch. The ATX board is always partly on - the switch is only a relay. That is why I use separate UPS's - aside from the fact that the cable modem is on the wall about 10 feet away from the computer.

 

[Viper96720]

Case power switch has a short or it's sticking and staying shorted.
If it only happens with hibernation then don't hibernate

 

[Viper96720]

Update your bios also if you haven't already. There's a fixed wake on ring fail fixed listed.

 

[EstoyLoco]

Ill check for a short...

yeah i've noticed it during hibernation so far...
but I use it because its the only way to shut down a pc fully when not used and conserve energy.
its a big plus for me.

i believe the board came with the latest bios, its got the matching revision and date on the post info.

 

[Viper96720]

It could be your UPS is screwing up and starting up the system. That's probably what's causing it to restart. I had a messed up UPS that would turn off my computer. Try disconnecting
the computer from the UPS use just a surge protector then hibernate. See if the computer starts by itself then.