My Computer Turns On On Its Own!

drummeralec

drummeralec

New Member
I recently built a computer using a GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard, and An Antec case. (See Specs Below). My problem is, I would shut down my computer at night as normal: start-shut down (Windows Xp). I would then go to bed. I would wake up in the morning, and my computer will be running! The first night I thought it was my cat or something, but then it happened every night for the next week! I decided to stay up and see what was happening. About 30 minutes after I shut it down, it just randomly started up! I did it again, and it did the exact same thing! When I say start up- I mean normally. It posts, then boots into windows. I have resulted in unplugging my computer when it is off. I have made no changes to my computer, it was working fine before this. Please help me find what is wrong!

it may be a short, but i really have no clue.

Specs-

Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Video Card

EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB

Ram

2x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (so really 4gb)

Cpu

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor

Case

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

CD/DVD Drive

SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner

Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Power Supply

Antec earthwatts EA500 ATX12V v2.0 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, CB, C-tick, CCC

Please help
Thx-Alec
 
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thorpef1

New Member
i would also have to say check the bios.
some motherboards allow the comp to be turned on via a mouse click or a button being pressed on the keyboard or even if the phone rings via the modem.
set all of the values on the bios to default.
hopefully that works
 
Deviousmind

Deviousmind

Member
Go into your bios settings and look for the "remote wake-up" settings. Sounds like you have one of them turned on ("wake on lan" is a common one).

Good luck!
 
Gareth

Gareth

Active Member
I have an eMachines T3065 PC which does exactly that also, but not every night, its randomly and usually when I am in the room. Even when its not plugged into a LAN or Wireless Internet, so I changed the power supply, thinking it was that, still does it. So I am doing what drummeralec is doing, and just unplugging it when its not in use.


I personally think its some electromagnetic force or something. It stumped me, but then again, that eMachines has always done it randomly, ever since we bought it back in 2004.
 
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