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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?

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:35:55 GMT, "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?

Look in the BIOS for "Wake On" something - LAN Activity, Modem ring,
etc.
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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?

There have been many people who were found burnt down to the skeleton,
sometimes even the bones are ashes. It's thought by those who aren't
keen on supernatural incidences to be something like the burning of a
candle where fat that is emulsified by the small amount of flames seeps
out and becomes the fuel for the fire. If you ARE leaning toward the
supernatural, one common thread seems to be don't smoke.

HTH.

"Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> 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?
>
> There have been many people who were found burnt down to the skeleton,
> sometimes even the bones are ashes. It's thought by those who aren't keen
> on supernatural incidences to be something like the burning of a candle
> where fat that is emulsified by the small amount of flames seeps out and
> becomes the fuel for the fire. If you ARE leaning toward the supernatural,
> one common thread seems to be don't smoke.
>
>

Score:

Relevance - .01
Quality - 10

Thanks Evan, I actually hadn't thought of that. Knowing him (the
son-in-law), it's entirely possible that he was fooling around in there and
turned something on. I'll check it out at my first opportunity...

At the risk of sounding dumb...HUH?

WhzzKdd wrote:
> "Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
>> 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?
>> There have been many people who were found burnt down to the skeleton,
>> sometimes even the bones are ashes. It's thought by those who aren't keen
>> on supernatural incidences to be something like the burning of a candle
>> where fat that is emulsified by the small amount of flames seeps out and
>> becomes the fuel for the fire. If you ARE leaning toward the supernatural,
>> one common thread seems to be don't smoke.
>>
>>
>
> Score:
>
> Relevance - .01
> Quality - 10

I shot an irrelevant in pajamas the other day.

To: chuckie®
Re: spontaneous start up
By: chuckie® to 24hoursupport.helpdesk on Sun Aug 19 2007 03:35:55

It's computer AIDS, it's terminal I'm afraid.

> From Newsgroup: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
>
> 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?


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"Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> WhzzKdd wrote:
>> "Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
>> news: om...
>>> 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?
>>> There have been many people who were found burnt down to the skeleton,
>>> sometimes even the bones are ashes. It's thought by those who aren't
>>> keen on supernatural incidences to be something like the burning of a
>>> candle where fat that is emulsified by the small amount of flames seeps
>>> out and becomes the fuel for the fire. If you ARE leaning toward the
>>> supernatural, one common thread seems to be don't smoke.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Score:
>>
>> Relevance - .01
>> Quality - 10
>
> I shot an irrelevant in pajamas the other day.


Oh no - not that one again

(Doesn't he ever get dressed?)

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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.