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system starts on it's own in the night
Name: Greg Date: July 24, 2002 at 13:56:57 Pacific
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My windows 98SE athlon 1800+ starts up all by it's self. At 3AM it fires up. I just set up ethernet on it, but other than that I made no changes.
Name: techtony Date: July 25, 2002 at 00:39:02 Pacific
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If you've got Juno on that thing, it may also be dialing out at 3am. Check Juno's "Supercomputer Project".
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Response Number 6
Name: Andreas Date: July 25, 2002 at 02:07:30 Pacific
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Try plugging out the network cable and see if the machine still boots up in the middle of the night. Even tough you have turned off the power the network card still lives..
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Response Number 7
Name: Brian Date: July 25, 2002 at 02:44:24 Pacific
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It's might be in a supended mode? thinking you have it turn off..
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Response Number 8
Name: Joel Date: July 25, 2002 at 05:37:00 Pacific
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Oh yeah... forgot to mention it before... see if any "wake up events" (besides the timer) are set in BIOS. They could be the wake on lan feature, ring-in on a modem, anything... do what Andreas mentioned with the network cable if you don't find anything listed. Unplug the modem as well.
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Response Number 9
Name: Greg Date: July 25, 2002 at 06:56:27 Pacific
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Thanks for the ideas, I don't have juno, the wake on LAN is off, there are no timed events, I do have it shut down, And I think there is a ghost in the machine. I will try to remove the networking. I have the files copied from my old machine, now I won't need the ethernet right away. Keep giving me ideas, and in the AM I'll check back. I have the cable out, and it was on again this morning.
Greg
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Response Number 10
Name: Daryl Date: July 25, 2002 at 17:00:11 Pacific
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power surges used to boot my pc up sometimes but that wouldn't happen at the same time, every night.. "who you gonna call...."
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Response Number 11
Name: Greg Date: July 26, 2002 at 05:46:46 Pacific
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Well, I disabled the ethernet in the setup, and the machine didn't come on last night. Does everyone with an active ethernet have this action during off times?
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