Laptop doing wired things

Ah, sorry about my spelling. I'm not a native English speaker so I have a little trouble with spelling and grammar.

Anyway, my laptop just booted again without me pushing the power button :(
 
Are you sure it's off? Not just on stanby or something? I'm thinking that maybe it's getting a signal somehow and "waking up," like it would if you hit the space bar or?

Also, just to check - when you turn the computer off, disconnect everything except the power cord from it and see if the behavior continues.

Also, please double check your BIOS for the wake on LAN option. Then check them again. ;) It certainly sounds like that's the problem - please be sure to save your changes after you change the settings in BIOS.
 
The Laptop is definitely turned off when it randomly starts up, I checked the bios multiple times, each time the feature wake on LAN is disabled. I am going to try the option of removing everything but the power cable next, but that'll take some time.
Thank you for your help so far!
PS: the only other thing that is plugged into it is the LAN cable connecting it to the internet and other computers
 
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Really? Sp the power cord and the LAN cable together will make it boot somehow? It hasn't booted yet... But I'll see, it takes a while sometimes...
 
The network cable can... I think that there must be some other feature in your BIOS that we're not seeing, and the network is telling your lappy to boot. Do you have Boot From PXE disabled as well? It may be on your boot menu. Can you tell me your BIOS version?
 
Unplug the LAN and try again. It shouldn't if you did disable the "Wake-On" settings in the bios, but no harm in trying. Also, to confirm it's off, why not shut it down as you normally would, unplug it, remove the battery, put the battery back and plug it back up (should completely shut it off)
 
I am in my bios now and there are options for the booting. I'll just list them:
CD-ROM boot enable
Floppy Boot enable
Internal Network Adapter Boot Enable
Boot mode PXE

Below that there is the order of the booting which the primary is internal optical drive, then it goes through 3 ESB boot options (CD-Rom, Floppy and SuperDisk), then the notebook hdd, usb hdd and then network controller.

In the top right corner it says 1.34 which I'm guessing is the bios version, but I'm not sure.

It seems as if the laptop doesn't start if the power cable is plugged in but the network cable isn't, but it also doesn't start when the network cable is in it by itself. So it's the combination of the power cable and the network cable that makes it start randomly.

I just turned it off and almost straight away it starts up again. It looks like it's now trying to start off the network unless I tell it manually to start off the hdd.

I also did the removing battery and putting it back in. It didn't change anything.
 
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When you removed the battery, did you also have the power unplugged. It kind of defeats the purpose if you didn't :P Also, have you tried without the network cable plugged in?
 
It may or may not have to be plugged into the power source in order to boot from the network - I'm not sure. I wouldn't think so, unless your battery is dead. It's not really important - it's the network that is causing your laptop to boot.

Disable Boot mode PXE

Then see if it continues to boot up when turned off but plugged into the network. If so, then I would say that, for whatever reason, your BIOS is not disabling your NICs ability to acept the boot command from the network. If this is the case, then I suppose you could try upgrading BIOS and all that jazz - might be a helluva lot easier just to unplug the network cable? (most people run wireless from their lappys anyway)

What network is it? I don't understand why it would be sending a signal to boot repeatedly anyway...
 
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It's just a home network... We don't have wireless here so I just use a cable from a modem which then runs through a splitter so that I can have my desktop and notebook on at the same time. I guess I'll just leave the network adapter unplugged overnight...
 
That's cool. I have tried to install my paid virus protection, but it says that I don't have internet when it tries to download itself. The same happened when I tried AVG as well so I haven't bothered to put anti virus protection on it. Also I only go on safe websites anyway...

Thanks for the help everyone!:)
 
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