telephone ring boots up computer

[Guest]

When my telephone rings, my computer turns on. How do I stop this?

 

[Armin Zingler]

When my telephone rings, my computer turns on. How do I stop this?

Start your PC and enter BIOS setup. There's an option to "wake up on ring".
How to enter the BIOS and where to find the option should be documented in
your motherboard manual. Usually it's <del> to enter setup and the option is
in the "power management setup" menu.


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[Steve C. Ray]

You need to go into your BIOS and look for an option that says "wake on
ring" or wake on lan", or something similar. Disable this feature.

 

[Guest]

I did this, but the option to turn off "wake up to ring" was not listed under the power management section. The only thing similar was "wake up after power failure".
The ACPI was 'enabled', but I left it enabled since I did not know what that was
Any more suggestions

 

[NobodyMan]

I did this, but the option to turn off "wake up to ring" was not listed under the power management section. The only thing similar was "wake up after power failure".
The ACPI was 'enabled', but I left it enabled since I did not know what that was.
Any more suggestions?

You did what? Nobody has any idea as you responded without including
what your advisor told you to try. Now everybody has to guess what
you need from groun zero!

I'm out on a limb, but I'm guessing you are trying to fix your problem
by going into XP's power management utility. Your computer waking up
when the phone rings has nothing to do with XP. It's a BIOS level
function that starts up long before XP does.

How do you get into BIOS? Only you can find that out. Different BIOS
manufacturers have different ways to get into BIOS setup. Watch your
computer monitor when you first power up; it usually tells you what
key(s) to press to access "setup" or something similiar. Once there,
search for Wake-On-Ring or something similiar and turn it off. When
you exit BIOS setup, your computer will reboot and voila, you're done!

 

[Armin Zingler]

You did what? Nobody has any idea as you responded without
including what your advisor told you to try. Now everybody has to
guess what you need from groun zero!

If you'd use a working news reader you'd have my answer right above his one.

Here it is again:
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[Armin Zingler]

I did this, but the option to turn off "wake up to ring" was not
listed under the power management section.

I wrote that it us /usually/ under the management section. Maybe it's
somewhere else. What I'd do:

1. Look through the other menus also.
2. Go on the motherboard manufacturer's site and look for the FAQs on your
board.
3. On the manf. site, there is often also a forum that you can search, or
ask in a new thread.
4. Use google to search for the problem
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) specifying your board.
5. Contact your mobo manufacturer

Anyway, this is actually not a WinXP problem.

The only thing similar was
"wake up after power failure". The ACPI was 'enabled', but I left it
enabled since I did not know what that was. Any more suggestions?

The setting is ok.

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[NobodyMan]

If you'd use a working news reader you'd have my answer right above his one.

Here it is again:

I am using a working newsreader - Agent. Don't come down on me
because of what the person I answered is using!

 

[Armin Zingler]

I am using a working newsreader - Agent.

If it works, why didn't you see the messages? Sorry, just a question.