Re: automatic start of computer

Unruh wrote:

Piet Van Raad <piet.vanraad@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Piet Van Raad wrote:
Hello,

After I installed Mandriva 2008 on a computer that was previously
running Windows XP it started to boot for no reason. It does that
sometimes twice a day, sometimes not for some days.

I've looked in the bios, and disabled some options with the name
"Resume on xxx". It has not helped.

An idea what could be the cause and how to solve it?

Regards,

Piet Van Raad

Is REBOOTING sporadically, or coming ON when it was switched OFF?

Coming on when it was switched off.

That can have nothing to do with the operating system. When the computer
is switched off, there is nothing about the operating system running. It
is not running not loaded. It is a hardware fault.

Note there is nothing in the bios running either. It is NOT a software
problem. It is a hardware problem.

Now, some computers have in bios options to come on on certain events. Ie,
the computer is not really switched off but is running a little monitor
progrom from bios, and looking for events on the net for example. Switch
off all that kind of "boot on..." in the bios.


Don't forget "Wake up on LAN"
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Who the *** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?

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