Computer randomly turning on

[Sabbin]

Hmm, mine has a different problem that's a bit similar...
My computer randomly likes to put itself onto sleep mode during the night, even when the settings are set not to. It sometimes goes to sleep mode, but sometimes doesn't, which is bad because I need to charge my iPod Touch, and when my computers on sleep mode, it doesn't charge my iPod for some reason. It keeps charging my phone, though.

I still have not been able to fix this...


Anyway, to your problem, it may be because of something in your BIOS set to turn it on. If you can't find anything in the BIOS, take out the BIOS battery, remove all power from the computer, push the power button several times to drain all the power out, put the BIOS battery back in, and plug in your computer again.

Mine was kinda like that but it just went to sleep whenever and i had it set to NEVER FREAKING SLEEP EVER until I got the Logic Board & Power Supply fixed sooooo do that unless you are unlike me with a MAC.
 but there was a fire at my house and that started happening after the fire so Oh Well !

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[Sabbin]

Mine was kinda like that but it just went to sleep whenever and i had it set to NEVER FREAKING SLEEP EVER until I got the Logic Board & Power Supply fixed sooooo do that unless you are unlike me with a MAC.
 but there was a fire at my house and that started happening after the fire so Oh Well !

http://www.gexcon.com/fire/images/fire.jpg

[Digmaster]

That may have something to do with it.

Nah, it happends when their attached or not.

Perhaps you set it to auto-update the OS at night? I've never heard of that turning on the computer, but I suppose it could happen.

Perhaps try disabling some of the activation features in the BIOS such as the Keyboard input or network wakeup mode.

I've never set it to update vista or ubuntu automatically. Plus, when the computer's off the wifi's off, right?

I'll turn off the keyboard and the network thing, though.

if you mean the monitor, just turn it off.

You clearly have not seem my computer. When I got my case I decided I wanted it to be kick ass. Now it lights up my entire room :D

But I'll try all that tomorrow.

[TapeDeck]

I'd rather not. The computer charges both my Sansa and my cell phone, so I need that power source. Also, I use standby quite a bit so that wouldn't work.

So it charges them when it's off?

Just turn off or unplug your PSU.

[Digmaster]

So it charges them when it's off?

Just turn off or unplug your PSU.

Yep, my motherboard supplies power to its USB plugs when its off. Very handy.

However, I can't unplug as I use standby mode all the time and I need those things to change.

[Chrono]

As long as the computer isn't randomly turning you on.