Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 175 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:10:21 Post Subject: Computer turns on by itself?
The other day I hooked up a wifi setup for my sister and when I left everything was working great. The PC that is wired to the router started turning itself on randomly. I had her check the bios to make sure "wake up on LAN" was disabled. But I can't think of anything else that would cause this related to what I did, is this just a coincidence or am I teh suck? The only other thing I can think of is the power switch itself...any other ideas?
Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20349 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:31:03 Post Subject:
What did you actually do? Install a PCI wireless card? USB? PCMCIA?
You do have a touch for computer magic, but I have one question... Did you verify that Wake On LAN is disabled, or are you counting on her to have checked? My recollection is that the skillz aren't too strong, and you might want to check first hand!
Other than that, there could be other Wake On events triggering it, maybe a sticky power switch, or probably not likely a short.
Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 795 Location: Snohomish, WA USA
Posted: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:11:58 Post Subject:
Besides wake on LAN, their are anumber of other 'Wake on.."events that can be set including various schedulers, some of which work for you (update/run AV, AS, Etc.) and some work against you (virus, spyware,etc.)
best bet is to set an event log and then check as to what event happened at/to cause the turnon.
."is this just a coincidence ......"
Just because you chaged to a wirelesss router (correct?) this may or may not be directly related
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 175 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:06:26 Post Subject:
No I didn't install anything on the computer itself, I am using the built in NIC on the Mobo. All I did was disconnect the cat5 cable from the modem and connect to the router and configure it.
I did get a Vm from her today saying she called Dell and was told to do the following: Unplug the PSU, then press and hold the power button for 10 seconds, connect the PSU and done. So far this seems like it worked! They said it dissapates the static charge on the mobo...does that make sense?
Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 795 Location: Snohomish, WA USA
Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:23:41 Post Subject:
fatbastard wrote:
No I didn't install anything on the computer itself, I am using the built in NIC on the Mobo. All I did was disconnect the cat5 cable from the modem and connect to the router and configure it.
I did get a Vm from her today saying she called Dell and was told to do the following: Unplug the PSU, then press and hold the power button for 10 seconds, connect the PSU and done. So far this seems like it worked! They said it dissapates the static charge on the mobo...does that make sense?
If it worked I guess it made sense,....... but it seems a hokey workaround for a poor grounding design.
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