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Win2k PC Powers ON by itself....

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wino777

IS-IT--Management
Jun 22, 2001
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My girlfriends PC (running Win2k) turns itself on all by itself...how is this possible?? If the machine is off, at different times of the day it will power on - I am at a loss to explain to her how this could be -- she thinks it's ghost. Please help me so I can convince her it isn't!!!
 
Does it have a network card in it and is it connected to anything? If it is try turning off the WAKE-ON-LAN feature in the bios. This "feature" allows a remote user to turn on the PC.



*Sounding like the voice in the Amityville Horror*
GET OOOUT !!!!!!! :)
 
Thanks -- I should have thought of that...

If that works I'll let you know

 
Hey, that seems to have done it -- thanks!!
 
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