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Computer starts in the night
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Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks |
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Computer starts in the night
PC BIOS could be set up to "Wake up on Modem" or "Wake up on LAN" activity?
"Caroline" wrote in message ... Hi Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks |
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Computer starts in the night
Record your dreams. They must be electrostatic! (... a
reference to why Yves' answer has merit) Caroline wrote: Hi Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks |
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Computer starts in the night
Check in BIOS. There usually is a setting to automatically start the
computer, either once or regularly.. -- Tumppi Reply to group ================================================= Most learned on nntp://news.mircosoft.com Helsinki, Finland (remove _NOSPAM) (translations from FI/SE not always accurate) ================================================= "w_tom" kirjoitti viestissä ... Record your dreams. They must be electrostatic! (... a reference to why Yves' answer has merit) Caroline wrote: Hi Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks |
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Computer starts in the night
"Caroline" wrote in message
... Hi Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks A BIOS setting might enable wake-up on events to your NIC or modem. Check if an "alarm" function is BIOS is set to power up your computer. Also check your scheduled tasks to see if any are configured to wake from sleep mode. -- __________________________________________________ _______________ ******** Post replies to newsgroup - Share with others ******** Email: lh_811newsATyahooDOTcom and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ _______________ |
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Computer starts in the night
Hey Caroline, I recently experienced the same problem. I went through
several scenerios trying to determine if I had solved the problem to no avail. One thing that I had been doing over the past several months was to add hardware such as an additional drive, some memory and a new scanner. I was talking to a friend recently who suggested that I check the power supply wattage and make sure that it is at least 300Watt. When I looked I had a 235 wat power supply attached. I spent about $45.00 for a 400watt supply and that seems to have solved my problem. . . No more Ghost. . . . Tom J. "Caroline" wrote in message ... Hi Don't know if anyone can help, but my computer, which is in the bedroom, suddenly starts up itself in the middle of the night. It has been shut down in the normal way. I have Norton internet security 2005 installed and updated. Running XP Home edition. Can anyone help Thanks |
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