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| Thread ID: 29384 | 2003-01-18 07:41:00 | Have I got a Ghost in the House?? | XP-dition (3016) | Press F1 |
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| 114953 | 2003-01-18 07:41:00 | Hi - I hav an AMD Duron 1.3ghz, 256mb DDR Ram, nVidia GeForce 4 MX, Gigabyte KT400 motherboard, 40gig HD, and am running Windows XP Pro - Antivirus: Norton Antivirus 2003 Professional Edition, Security: Norton Internet Security 2003. I have just installed the latesed drivers for my GeForce from www.nvidia.com and have also installed a software update from www.nvidia.com - nVidia WDM. The problem is that when I turn my computer off after about 15-30mins it turns itself back on again. I shutdown the computer properly each time, and have checked it to make sure that it isnt in standby or anything. Have I got a Ghost in the House? Or is there a nother answer? Any help would be appreciated, -Jordan |
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| 114954 | 2003-01-18 07:51:00 | There might be something in the BIOS doing this, but it could be under a number of things. Look under the menus (can't remember the names, some like BIOS Features or something) for some settings called "Wake-On ......". It could be that your computer is allowing itself to be "woke" by USB or PCI devices, or the modem. The setting might also be under "External Ring" or "External Wake" or something. Disable the computer being woken by your modem, LAN, PCI, and USB devices. From my experience, this doesn't affect you being able to use USB devices to bring your computer out of Standby. If your computer is allowed to wake on USB, and you use a USB mouse (which you probably do), then any vibration big enough (and it may not even be noticeable) to move your mouse a little will start booting your computer. |
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| 114955 | 2003-01-18 07:53:00 | My mouse is a Ps/2 optical mouse | XP-dition (3016) | ||
| 114956 | 2003-01-18 07:59:00 | also check "resume after pwr fail". turn it off. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 114957 | 2003-01-18 08:01:00 | My modem has not been enabled to 'wake' the computer, and I hav no devices connected to my USB ports | XP-dition (3016) | ||
| 114958 | 2003-01-18 08:04:00 | Where do I find these menus? | XP-dition (3016) | ||
| 114959 | 2003-01-18 08:05:00 | Check for those "Wake-On" settings anyway, and (though unlikely) make sure it isn't enabled to boot up automatically every day at a set time. | agent (30) | ||
| 114960 | 2003-01-18 08:08:00 | When you've just turned your computer on, it'll say something like "Press Delete to enter BIOS" or something. It might also be 'F1' or 'F2', try them all. Somewhere in one of the submenus there are settings - tweak'e sounds to be the best bet. | agent (30) | ||
| 114961 | 2003-01-18 08:15:00 | My guess is that wake on Ring is set in the BIOS. | Elephant (599) | ||
| 114962 | 2003-01-18 08:23:00 | Hey guys - sorry a bit tired i think :S i was looking in control panel before :P - went into cmos setting and saw that Modem RingOn/WakeOnLan was enabled and so was PME Event Wakeup. So I disabled both of them :) - hopefully this will fix my problem - there was also an option to enable/disable the waking up of the computer on mouse or keyboard action (but both these options were disabled). Thanks a lot for all your help :) (maybe you helpfull ppl can help me with my playstation thru monitor problem?? :P) -Jordan |
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