Unusual Problem With Shutting Down/Starting Up

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Here is my problem: I had to have a hard drive replaced
since mine went bad. The technician replaced it and
updated my bios. Since he did this my machine works very
strange - here is what is happening:

1. Background: My computer is plugged into a surge
suppressor - after I shut down windows I flip the off
switch on the surge suppressor. When I want to turn the
computer back on I flip the surge suppressor on and press
the power button on the unit. Unit starts up just fine.

Now that the technician has replaced the hard drive and
update the bios this is what happens:

1. I shut down windows and flip the off switch on the
surge suppressor. When I turn the surge supressor back on
the computer cycle itself like it's trying to start
without even pushing the power button in on it. It has
this quick surge of power and then goes dead. When you
push the power button in on the unit it starts up fine. I
had the technician back out and he told me that the
machine is suppose to do that? What is he talking about -
the machine or any of my machines never did that. What's
going on here and can anything be done to stop it. I have
tried switching surge suppressors and even pluging the
unit directly into a wall unit and it still does the same
thing.

Please help!

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

That's not right, it should not behave like that. I would suspect that it
may simply be a BIOS "wake on.." feature that is enabled (one that wasn't
before). You may want to take a look there for yourself.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

How and where would I take a look? to try and fix the
bios "wake on"? Can you help me?

 

[SlowJet]

My Intel865GBF boards do that.
The switch in the back controls power to the board, which gives the NIC
power.
It has to be off before the power stops.
When I turn it on the disk, and lights flash and then it does dead again,
ready to push the button.

There is a power setting in some bios's that can id a pwoer on keyboard
combo. Like Ctrl-F1.

If you set the power on option for the pwer on swith to a 4 second delay,
with the start up option then
the computer can be shut down and turned on by the keyboard. Along with a
SLEPP key for hibrnation, a wake up key combo, thus the computer could be in
the closet with safe environment, dust free, temp control, etc while the
user sets in a lounge chair with a wireless keyboard and ....

Things are different now.

SJ