Vista RC2 Starts by itself??

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I shut down the normal way - via start menu, screen goes blank, fans stop,
case LED goes out - all dark & quiet. Definately shut down.

Next morning I find the computer on, sitting at the welcome screen - power
LED and IDE activity LED both on solid, keyboard and mouse do not respond.
Must use reset button to get it to reboot and then it comes back OK. Seems
to happen everytime I turn it off - does not show any other unusual signs.
This was a clean RC2 install.

Any ideas?
 
RC2 does not start by itself. Your "computer" starts by itself. It wouldn't
matter what O/S you had installed. It would still do it.

Go into your bios and change the appropriate settings to prevent this from
happening.

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If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
RobertLane said:
I shut down the normal way - via start menu, screen goes blank, fans stop,
case LED goes out - all dark & quiet. Definately shut down.

Next morning I find the computer on, sitting at the welcome screen - power
LED and IDE activity LED both on solid, keyboard and mouse do not respond.
Must use reset button to get it to reboot and then it comes back OK. Seems
to happen everytime I turn it off - does not show any other unusual signs.
This was a clean RC2 install.

Any ideas?
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Strongly suggest you also check for virus/trojan infection.

Frank
 
This reminds me of a funny incident.

We had just been purchased by a bigger company and we moved in to the new
building. I plugged my pc into the power socket and noticed it was labeled
B. Of course I thought nothing of it and I would go home everyday as normal.
But the next day I noticed the PC had been rebooted. Puzzled by what was
going on and after much digging, I found out why the socket was labeled B.
Socket B was hooked up to a motion sensor on the ceiling which turns off all
socket Bs at night and back on in the morning as the employees arrive.
 
=?Utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0TGFuZQ==?= said:
I shut down the normal way - via start menu, screen goes blank, fans stop,
case LED goes out - all dark & quiet. Definately shut down.

Next morning I find the computer on, sitting at the welcome screen - power
LED and IDE activity LED both on solid, keyboard and mouse do not respond.
Must use reset button to get it to reboot and then it comes back OK. Seems
to happen everytime I turn it off - does not show any other unusual signs.
This was a clean RC2 install.

Any ideas?
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You are correct, I sat up late one night to watch what happens. It powers the
PC on at midnight - it seems Vista schedules a power on, for what I can only
guess is maintenance.

Switch back to XP and the PC doesn't switch back on, so it's definately Vista.

And to all those people that think PC's can't just power on, most BIOS's
include a feature to power a PC on, based on either events occuring, a timer,
or a magic packet being received from a NIC.
 
The explanation is relatively easy.
Vista has different definition of "power button" in the start menu.
You thought that you turned off PC, when the computer just "slept". You can
change this definition is power scheme.
Leszek
 
Thanks to all who provided input - It seems to stay off now that I turned off
all the "wake on" settings in the BIOS setup.
 
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