I am running Windows XP on my home computer and I have had
the computer for about 3 months. all of the sudden
yesterday the computer powered itself on. I shut it off
and it has powered itself back on a few times since then.
Does anyone know why this would happen. Could there be
some sort of timer that I may have activated that powers
the computer on by itself? I did notice that there is an
app that pulls up for my motherboard, it is called easy
tune and it monitors the board and its functions and there
is also an edd software for my modem that pulls up and
says its enabled. I unplugged the phone line from the
modem on saturday and the computer did not power on by
itself at all, I then plugged the phone line back in on
Sunday and it powered itself on a couple of times. the
computer powers on and the 2 programs I mentioned are the
only ones running. There is no internet connection but
somehow the phone line being plugged in has something to
do with it. I am never in the room when it actually powers
on, so I dont know if it connects to the internet and then
disconnects itself. One thing I forgot to mention is that
I was infected by the blaster worm in august. I removed it
using the tools from Symantecs website and I downloaded
the patch from Microsofts website. this is the only
virus/worm I have gotten. does anyone know if this could
have something to do with it?

Check your properties for your modem. There is a setting
that can turn your pc on if it is set to wake on ring.
You should find in Modem properties.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am running Windows XP on my home computer and I have
had
>the computer for about 3 months. all of the sudden
>yesterday the computer powered itself on. I shut it off
>and it has powered itself back on a few times since
then.
>Does anyone know why this would happen. Could there be
>some sort of timer that I may have activated that powers
>the computer on by itself? I did notice that there is an
>app that pulls up for my motherboard, it is called easy
>tune and it monitors the board and its functions and
there
>is also an edd software for my modem that pulls up and
>says its enabled. I unplugged the phone line from the
>modem on saturday and the computer did not power on by
>itself at all, I then plugged the phone line back in on
>Sunday and it powered itself on a couple of times. the
>computer powers on and the 2 programs I mentioned are
the
>only ones running. There is no internet connection but
>somehow the phone line being plugged in has something to
>do with it. I am never in the room when it actually
powers
>on, so I dont know if it connects to the internet and
then
>disconnects itself. One thing I forgot to mention is
that
>I was infected by the blaster worm in august. I removed
it
>using the tools from Symantecs website and I downloaded
>the patch from Microsofts website. this is the only
>virus/worm I have gotten. does anyone know if this could
>have something to do with it?
>
>.
>

If you have a network card in your system and it has a wake on lan feature,
your system can power on seemingly by itself. Usually, this is triggered if
you have a broadband connection or some other network connection but it can
happen even without it. If you have a network card, you need to go into
your system BIOS and disable this feature.

When the system boots, the first screen usually contains a message about
entering setup with a key to depress for that purpose. When you see that
messages, follow its instructions. You will have to navigate around to find
this feature, when you find, turn it off, then exit and reboot.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

"Eric" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am running Windows XP on my home computer and I have had
> the computer for about 3 months. all of the sudden
> yesterday the computer powered itself on. I shut it off
> and it has powered itself back on a few times since then.
> Does anyone know why this would happen. Could there be
> some sort of timer that I may have activated that powers
> the computer on by itself? I did notice that there is an
> app that pulls up for my motherboard, it is called easy
> tune and it monitors the board and its functions and there
> is also an edd software for my modem that pulls up and
> says its enabled. I unplugged the phone line from the
> modem on saturday and the computer did not power on by
> itself at all, I then plugged the phone line back in on
> Sunday and it powered itself on a couple of times. the
> computer powers on and the 2 programs I mentioned are the
> only ones running. There is no internet connection but
> somehow the phone line being plugged in has something to
> do with it. I am never in the room when it actually powers
> on, so I dont know if it connects to the internet and then
> disconnects itself. One thing I forgot to mention is that
> I was infected by the blaster worm in august. I removed it
> using the tools from Symantecs website and I downloaded
> the patch from Microsofts website. this is the only
> virus/worm I have gotten. does anyone know if this could
> have something to do with it?
>