Re: PC switches itsel on when phone rings

[kurttrail]

Macca 68 wrote:

> Recently upgraded from 98 to XP Pro. Initially couldn't get XP to
> shutdown PC and would get 'Now safe to shut down PC'. Fixed that but
> now find that PC will restart maybe 2 hours later by itself and boot
> up. Just recently realised that this was happening when shared
> voice/PC line received an incoming call. Any ideas why and how I can
> prevent this reboot (I've now disabled Aoto restart in the 'Startup
> and recovery' part of System properties. Thanks

Turn off wake up on ring for your modem.

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[Glimmer Man]

you can go into the bios and turn off waks up modem setting; I'd also turn off wake up lan

[John A]

..... in your bios setup

John Allen

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:35:26 -0500, "kurttrail"
> wrote:

>Macca 68 wrote:
>
>> Recently upgraded from 98 to XP Pro. Initially couldn't get XP to
>> shutdown PC and would get 'Now safe to shut down PC'. Fixed that but
>> now find that PC will restart maybe 2 hours later by itself and boot
>> up. Just recently realised that this was happening when shared
>> voice/PC line received an incoming call. Any ideas why and how I can
>> prevent this reboot (I've now disabled Aoto restart in the 'Startup
>> and recovery' part of System properties. Thanks
>
>Turn off wake up on ring for your modem.