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| 411604 | 2005-12-10 00:25:00 | My adult son reports his 3 month old PC has started powering itself on. He advises that after shutting it down he has returned several times lately to find it "up and running." He insists that his "ankle-biters" are not responsible and considering his office set-up, I reluctantly accept this. He has a modest set-up and runs XP. Is this likely to be a Power Management issue thru Settings etc or could there be a more sinister reason. I have never heard of this before and can't see how an electrical device can suddenly start switching itself on...hibernation ? |
bazmeister (3216) | ||
| 411605 | 2005-12-10 00:35:00 | Most likely that the bios settings are back on default, and that wake on ring or wake on lan are enabled. | Metla (12) | ||
| 411606 | 2005-12-10 00:54:00 | Thanks for your quick thoughts..... Can you give me a brief rundown on how to check this, I will be the one to have to sort this.. tks again.. |
bazmeister (3216) | ||
| 411607 | 2005-12-10 03:40:00 | Press F2, F10, or the delete key on the keyboard, to get into the BIOS. Then look for the wake up on lan, (WOL) or Wake up on ring (WOR) option.and disable whichever one is in the BIOS. I cant tell you what menu the option for either maybe under. Different systems have different menus and different options. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 411608 | 2005-12-10 07:06:00 | Thanks Speedy, have been into my own BIOS as I'm going to have to give him advice.... In my case a thorough perusal of all the options reveals a LAN option, but no WOR. In the Power Management Set-up area,there is an option titled Ring On Power On. Assuming his BIOS is similar to mine, they should be pretty similar, is this a possibility ? I see the modem option as being the more likely. |
bazmeister (3216) | ||
| 411609 | 2005-12-10 07:55:00 | The BIOS maybe the same, if theyre the same motherboard. If theyre not then maybe not. The ring on power on sounds like the option you're after. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 411610 | 2005-12-10 10:14:00 | OK, well its given me a good starting point - tks for that. | bazmeister (3216) | ||
| 411611 | 2005-12-10 20:16:00 | My adult son reports his 3 month old PC has started powering itself on. He advises that after shutting it down he has returned several times lately to find it "up and running." He insists that his "ankle-biters" are not responsible and considering his office set-up, I reluctantly accept this. He has a modest set-up and runs XP. Is this likely to be a Power Management issue thru Settings etc or could there be a more sinister reason. I have never heard of this before and can't see how an electrical device can suddenly start switching itself on...hibernation ? You will find that it is a bios setting thst is turning on the PC when the phone rings. By default, some motherboards have this feature enabled. I have struck it many times. |
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