PC vslef starting = scarry!

Maveric169

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Yes you read the thread title correctly. It happen yesterday. I shut down my pc, it was totally turned off with the exception of the PSU switch, I was eating dinner for a good 5 min., there are no lights on, on the PC. Then all of a sudden the PC fired up! It turned it's self on! Scarred the **** out of me! After it booted I shut it off again, but that time it stayed off. It was freaky!
 
Ha, it happened to me once with my old dell, in the middle of the night.

With my speakers turned on high.

Scared the crap out of me :p
 
maybe a sudden peak of electricty that made the pc start :huh:
 
Could be:
- Wake on LAN
- Wake on modem
- Wake on timer
- Wake on cat (or other pet, save fish) stepping on keyboard
or even
- Wake on random idea that waking would be a good idea
 
I thought that wake on lan and such is only for supened mode, not a fully shutoff pc.
 
I turn my power bar off when I shutdown my PC. Turns off my router, ADSL modem, monitor, speakers and external burner.
 
When I hibernate my computer and unplug any USB-device, the computer starts up too. When I shut it down normally, it is normal.
 
Pretty much anything can start an ATX computer up if the main power is on. Provided the specific function is supported and not disabled of course.
 
my gf's pc tended to start on its own etc while a c-media pci sound card was installed some time ago. it started when I replaced the sound card to the c-media... and stopped when I replaced that with a SBPCI128. Some PCs tend to have a mind of its own at times lol

it is usually because of a power surge or something similar though that it happens.
 
mine has fired up b4 just when I started to fall asleep I hear all the fans kick on and im like wtf?!
 
i had a PC that would turn itself on when the room got warm

/ replaced the PSU > it doesn't do it anymore

:cool:
 

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