My computer just turned ON by itself!!!

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  1. JaguarGod

    JaguarGod Active member

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    The wierdest thing just happened a few minutes ago. I shut down my PC. About 30 seconds after it turned off it turned itself back on!!!

    I have heard of PCs shutting down by themselves, but never turing on!!! Also, I am 100% positive that the PC was completely off.

    I thought I would post this before I go to sleep. Maybe someone would find this interesting!!

    Also, if anyone knows, what would make this happen??
     
    JaguarGod, Apr 17, 2006
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    Could be several things.

    Possibly you hibernated it instead of shutting it down.

    Possibly you did standby.

    Possibly your BIOS has "Wake on LAN" set to true.

    Possibly it has one of the other "Wake on xxx" options set to true.

    Possibly you've got a short in your power button.

    Possibly you've got jumpers that are pulling off the motherboard, and it shorted and initiated the "on" sequence.

    Possibly you've got GOOBLIEGOOBLIES in your house that want to download pr0n0graphies.

    Or, also, you could have done automatic updates w/o realizing it. Sometimes when windows autoupdates, it thinks you really want to restart when you shut it down, because you're only shutting down to initiate the changes.

    I like to think it's GOOBLIEGOOBLIES though.
     
    TomMelee, Apr 18, 2006
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    JaguarGod Active member

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    Its either the wake on LAN

    or the GOOBLIEGOOBLIES!!!

    The LAN could be it, because I had the DSL modem off when I shut down and turned it on so that no one wakes me up early in the morning because "the computer is broken".

    Thanks for the reply!! I never knew that a PC could just turn on though.

    BTW, I have hybernate & Standby disabled so that gives more of a chance to the GOOBLIEGOOBLIES!!!
     
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  4. TomMelee

    TomMelee Regular member

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    Lol.

    Since I wrote that I've been running around going "GOOBLIEGOOBLIE" all over the place.

    Can you tell I work with children?

    Yeah.

    P.S. The three minute posting restriction for newblets is killing me. AAAAAAAAH.
     
    TomMelee, Apr 18, 2006
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    I never knew about that posting restriction. Yeah that would be pretty tough, but in other forums they sometimes give you a daily limit which can be worse...
     
    JaguarGod, Apr 18, 2006
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    Eh, it makes sense. Keeps people from registering and bulk spamming the forums.

    I just wonder when I'm going to stop being a "newbie", lol.
     
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