Computer Turns on by Itself

[Elio M. García Jr.]

Last night I turned off my computer, as usual. This morning I put
it on -- or tried to, anyhow. It failed to power up -- no PSU fan
running, no LCD, nothing. I checked all the connections and everything
was okay -- the monitor and speakers (both on the same surge protector)
went on just fine, but the computer stayed dead.

I decided ecided to leave the problem until later, as I had other
things to do. But about two hours afterwards, I heard it go on by
itself. Without realizing it, I had left the power button to the 'On'
position, I suppose. Everything worked as normal -- no strange error
messages at boot up or anything of the sort.

So, question is . . . why did it do this and what can I do about
it? I'd rather not leave my computer on all the time, but I certainly
don't want to have to wait a couple of hours for it to decide that it's
ready to power up.

Thanks for any help provided.

--
[Upon a Dzurlord learning of the murder of a critic by a painter]
"And it was well done, too. I'd have done the same, only-"
"Yes?"
"I don't paint." (Steven Brust, _The Phoenix Guards_)

Elio M. García, Jr. (elio@tele2.se) -- www.westeros.org

[Jon]

Could be a faulty power supply. Temperature sensitive? Check the bios setup
too. It may be setup to start auto-magically. (not joking Check settings)
"Elio M. García Jr." <elio@tele2.se> wrote in message
news:MPG.1964f16bbc08f4299896a5@News.CIS.DFN.DE... Last night I turned off my computer, as usual. This morning I put it on -- or tried to, anyhow. It failed to power up -- no PSU fan running, no LCD, nothing. I checked all the connections and everything was okay -- the monitor and speakers (both on the same surge protector) went on just fine, but the computer stayed dead. I decided ecided to leave the problem until later, as I had other things to do. But about two hours afterwards, I heard it go on by itself. Without realizing it, I had left the power button to the 'On' position, I suppose. Everything worked as normal -- no strange error messages at boot up or anything of the sort. So, question is . . . why did it do this and what can I do about it? I'd rather not leave my computer on all the time, but I certainly don't want to have to wait a couple of hours for it to decide that it's ready to power up. Thanks for any help provided. -- [Upon a Dzurlord learning of the murder of a critic by a painter] "And it was well done, too. I'd have done the same, only-" "Yes?" "I don't paint." (Steven Brust, _The Phoenix Guards_) Elio M. García, Jr. (elio@tele2.se) -- www.westeros.org

[Elio M. García Jr.]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:13:01 -0700, morden@shadows.net says...
Decent up to date power supplies shut themselves off in case of overload = per tomshardware.com Replace PSU with one of those and see if this keeps happening. Did you add any new components into it recently?

No, not really. I mean, recently added a hard drive to it, but
this issue was happening before that point. It may have exacerbated the
problem, I suppose, but it's not the problem. I'm going to have it take
into a shop tomorrow, see if they can sort it out.

Will see if trying a different PSU helps any when I take into a
computer repair place tomorrow.

Thanks for helping. :)

--
[Upon a Dzurlord learning of the murder of a critic by a painter]
"And it was well done, too. I'd have done the same, only-"
"Yes?"
"I don't paint." (Steven Brust, _The Phoenix Guards_)

Elio M. García, Jr. (elio@tele2.se) -- www.westeros.org