[Win7] Computer boots automaticly

[NyteMyre]

Since a few days, my computer has a new habit of starting automatically, 2 hours after i shut it down. I googled around a bit and found some various sources talking about "wake on...."
My motherboard has a "boot from onboard lan" function, but after disabling...it still boots automatically.

I further checked the network card and disabled "wake on magic packet" and "wake on pattern match", did a virus scan and checked if there are any scheduled tasks with "wake on..." enabled but without luck.


On a side note, this thing started to happen close after a sudden power failure in my area so it could be a hardware problem.....if so, is there any way to check that?

Until then, it's pulling the plug when my PC is not running.

[Maverick]

Maybe your machine was getting lonely? lol umm, it's strange that it happens after a power outage, I had one 2 days ago and my rig isn't doing anything like that.

[Pedz]

Sometimes PCs (I know mine has an option somewhere) to start on power cycle, meaning if there is a powercut and it comes back, the pc will automatically start. This maybe what you're experiencing, however not knowing all BIOS' off by heart, it might require a bit of digging around the power sections

[NyteMyre]

I turned off alot of other stuff in the bios like "RTC Alarm power on" and "ACPI HPCT Table".... but after 3 hours it again started by itself

I also tested something else:
After shutting down and pushing the power button on my powersocket (hope thats the right translation).... i pushed the power button after a few minutes and nothing happened. I did the same thing but waited 4 hours this time and when i pushed the power button on the socket, the PC immediately started booting


Really annoying


Ill remove the LAN connection tonight and see if it boots up again.

[Ramjali]

Your computer might have turn on automatically thinking the CPU overheated when on sleep, becuase that's what sometimes happens with my asus board