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wierd power-on problem
Has anyone ever heard of this happening?... My friend has a new PC built by some small company that builds and repairs computers. The PC is experiencing the following bizarre behavior: It indavertantly turns on from a power-off state. Sometimes every day, sometimes once a week. What we have done to pinpoint the cause: had builder replace power supply had builder replace mother board plug it in with and without surge strip plug it in in different room plug it in at a friend's house We can find no consistency to it. Today someone asked if she was using an ethernet or dial-up connection to the internet. She is using dial up. We noticed that the computer did NOT turn itself on at the friend's house after a week....then we connected the modem to the phone line and it turned itself on soon thereafter. Does this make sense to any one? Thank you kindly..... Teo "teo" <caca***@sbcglobal.net> wrote I bet it's Wake-On-Ring/Wake-On-Modem :-)> up. We noticed that the computer did NOT turn itself on at the > friend's house after a week....then we connected the modem to the phone > line and it turned itself on soon thereafter. There's likely a setting for that in Power Management in the CMOS Setup. --HC good point but if mobo was replaced a bios setting would normally be set at
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On 26 Feb 2005 20:14:47 -0800, "teo" <caca***@sbcglobal.net> Huh?wrote: >Greetings! > >Has anyone ever heard of this happening?... > >My friend has a new PC built by some small company that builds and >repairs computers. The PC is experiencing the following bizarre >behavior: It indavertantly turns on from a power-off state. Sometimes >every day, sometimes once a week. > >What we have done to pinpoint the cause: >had builder replace power supply >had builder replace mother board >plug it in with and without surge strip >plug it in in different room >plug it in at a friend's house > >We can find no consistency to it. You only list a few parts, did you replace all the other parts and set up the system the same, including operating system? When builder replaced power supply, did they use same thing again or different? Keep in mind that a (different) generic might actually be the exact same thing! >Today someone asked if she was using Do you have a different modem you could try?>an ethernet or dial-up connection to the internet. She is using dial >up. We noticed that the computer did NOT turn itself on at the >friend's house after a week....then we connected the modem to the phone >line and it turned itself on soon thereafter. Check the bios for PCI wake-up events. Wake on PME, or actually, Wake on (anything) could be disabled, then later if you find you need that kind of feature, selectively enable (whatever). > It would if it wakes when the phone state changes, for>Does this make sense to any one? >Thank you kindly..... example if it rings.
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"teo" <caca***@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message *carefully* go through your power savings settings in BIOS. Trynews:1109477686.970749.218080@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > Greetings! > > Has anyone ever heard of this happening?... > > My friend has a new PC built by some small company that builds and > repairs computers. The PC is experiencing the following bizarre > behavior: It indavertantly turns on from a power-off state. Sometimes > every day, sometimes once a week. > > What we have done to pinpoint the cause: > had builder replace power supply > had builder replace mother board > plug it in with and without surge strip > plug it in in different room > plug it in at a friend's house > > We can find no consistency to it. Today someone asked if she was using > an ethernet or dial-up connection to the internet. She is using dial > up. We noticed that the computer did NOT turn itself on at the > friend's house after a week....then we connected the modem to the phone > line and it turned itself on soon thereafter. > > Does this make sense to any one? by disabling them all first. teo wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > Greetings! > > Has anyone ever heard of this happening?... > > My friend has a new PC built by some small company that builds and > repairs computers. The PC is experiencing the following bizarre > behavior: It indavertantly turns on from a power-off state. Sometimes > every day, sometimes once a week. > > What we have done to pinpoint the cause: > had builder replace power supply > had builder replace mother board > plug it in with and without surge strip > plug it in in different room > plug it in at a friend's house > > We can find no consistency to it. Today someone asked if she was using > an ethernet or dial-up connection to the internet. She is using dial > up. We noticed that the computer did NOT turn itself on at the > friend's house after a week....then we connected the modem to the phone > line and it turned itself on soon thereafter. > > Does this make sense to any one? > Thank you kindly..... > Teo |
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