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"Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
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> chuckie® wrote:
>> At the risk of sounding dumb...HUH?
>
> Try to keep up. It's a play on words. Spontaneous combustion. The OP's
> problem is obviously a Wake On Lan or similar feature, but I tried to
> interject some levity by misdirecting the subject to some similar sounding
> problem. Perhaps I'll start including graphs and blueprints for my jokes
> from now on.


Heh! I do that at work with my purchase orders. I put line drawings with
them so the idiots shipping stuff to me know how to stack it on the pallet
so it doesn't get damaged. I bet they don't think it's funny <g>

I'm fifty-seven years old with very bad knees...keeping up isn't an
option...

The people I work with wouldn't be able to follow that...I have trouble
getting them to tie-stack pallets even when I do the first two rows for
them...<sigh>

Can't be...the computer in question has been totally celibate for many
years. Hasn't had a transfusion either...

chuckie® wrote:
> I'm fifty-seven years old with very bad knees...keeping up isn't an
> option...

I'm 56 with a very bad brain. Keep up, chuckie®.

Maybe if I get one of them scooter gizmos...

chuckie® wrote:
> Maybe if I get one of them scooter gizmos...

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps...ws01/706070318

Shorter version in case the wrap is problem:

http://tinyurl.com/3dloe7

It's twoo, it's really twoo!

"chuckie®" <> wrote:

>My son-in-law has complained to me that his computer is turning itself on
>spontaneously after he has shut it down. I have told him that it probably
>didn't shutdown completely, however, he is adamant that it does. Now, I
>haven't seen this phenomenon for myself as yet, but I find it hard to fathom
>that this can occur. He is running Win2KPro, 1.7gig Celeron, 500mb DDR RAM
>(don't remember the speed), 40gig IDE HDD. Is this possible? If so, what
>would cause it?
>

Neighbor runs Win98 and asked if I could stop it from booting back up
after he shuts it down, No problem....

I disable everything in the bios that might cause this as far as
taking out the ACPI, and Set everything in the control panel/Power
Options correctly.

Shut it down and it restarts itself :} still...

I think somehow the green wire to start the computer is grounding out
somewhere (switch or whatever).

He's buying a new computer so doesn't want to take the time to open it
up and find out.


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wrote:
> "chuckie®" <> wrote:
>
>> My son-in-law has complained to me that his computer is turning itself on
>> spontaneously after he has shut it down. I have told him that it probably
>> didn't shutdown completely, however, he is adamant that it does. Now, I
>> haven't seen this phenomenon for myself as yet, but I find it hard to fathom
>> that this can occur. He is running Win2KPro, 1.7gig Celeron, 500mb DDR RAM
>> (don't remember the speed), 40gig IDE HDD. Is this possible? If so, what
>> would cause it?
>>
>
> Neighbor runs Win98 and asked if I could stop it from booting back up
> after he shuts it down, No problem....
>
> I disable everything in the bios that might cause this as far as
> taking out the ACPI, and Set everything in the control panel/Power
> Options correctly.
>
> Shut it down and it restarts itself :} still...
>
> I think somehow the green wire to start the computer is grounding out
> somewhere (switch or whatever).
>
> He's buying a new computer so doesn't want to take the time to open it
> up and find out.

If the green wire was grounding out it'd shut down after 4 seconds. You
are, no doubt, aware of the Win98 shut down problems and fixes? Many
links available.

Rôgêr <> wrote:

>> I think somehow the green wire to start the computer is grounding out
>> somewhere (switch or whatever).

>If the green wire was grounding out it'd shut down after 4 seconds.

I'm not sure that true, seeing as it's the on and off switch that
grounds that wire out.
http://www.bluemax.net/techtips/ATXP...pplyWiring.htm

>You
>are, no doubt, aware of the Win98 shut down problems and fixes? Many
>links available.

That was the short version, went thru it all.


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