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PC turning its self on !!

Jonjulie
Jonjulie Posts: 235 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
PC is turning its self on every night bang on midnite,can someone advise me how to change this setting,thanks in advance.

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  • fitshase
    fitshase Posts: 443 Forumite
    Have a look in the BIOS (hit delete or f8 when you boot the computer up) and look for the option "Wake on LAN".

    This did the trick for me as my router was sending network traffic overnight and it would switch the computer on.
  • Jonjulie
    Jonjulie Posts: 235 Forumite
    any other suggestions,gladly welcome.
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Jonjulie wrote: »
    any other suggestions,gladly welcome.

    Didn't that work? Sounds like the most likely cause. Personally I switch off my PC and peripherals at the mains every night. Would be rather unlikely for it to power on automatically then. :D
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • going2die_rich
    going2die_rich Posts: 1,378 Forumite
    superscaper wrote: »
    Didn't that work? Sounds like the most likely cause. Personally I switch off my PC and peripherals at the mains every night. Would be rather unlikely for it to power on automatically then. :D

    Unless they have a ghost in their room at night turning it on to play solitaire... maybe they should get their PC blessed by a priest or something just in case :)
  • digiboyz
    digiboyz Posts: 10 Forumite
    Switch it off by the mains it might be that the power button is abit fragile and lose and when the floor shakes or something it might activate the system
  • mdbarber
    mdbarber Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    If its doing it bang on 12 sounds like its scheduled, many mainboards can do this, again go to bios and look under power management, with some boards it can also be f2 key to enter
    click here to achieve nothing!
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    digiboyz wrote: »
    Switch it off by the mains it might be that the power button is abit fragile and lose and when the floor shakes or something it might activate the system

    off topic:
    but please remove the link from your signature as you are not allowed them according to the forum rules
  • Jonjulie
    Jonjulie Posts: 235 Forumite
    Sorted,thanks all.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    What was it?

    It may help others.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    digiboyz, you are not allowed links in your signature.

    Please remove it before it gets removed.
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