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Self-booting computer?
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Posted by: Darky!
Notes version:
Two computers.
One turned itself on, by itself, when this should be impossible.
I want to know why.
Long version:
I have two main computers, a primary, and a secondary. The primary is the one I always use, and the secondary isn't really used for anything other then to entertain guests.
Well, today, I noticed my network usage was abnormally high, but I had nothing running on my computer. Upon looking at the router, I can see that all of the traffic is coming from my secondary computer, so I sit down at it and look for anything that could be using bandwidth... nothing.
After exhausting every possibility, I decided to turn everything off for 10 minutes, and back on again. This worked, for only about 20 minutes.
So I decide I'll work on it later after I finish a few things, and turn it back off. However, about 10 minutes after I turned it off, it turned itself back on.
No one pressed any buttons.
Remote wake up functions are disabled.
Auto-start is disabled.
Anything and everything hardware related that could possibly start it up remotely is disabled.
This is freakish. I've never had this happen before, and the computer is on a UPS, so I know it wasn't a brownout or power surge.
Anyone know what could cause this? The computer seems to be virus free (Atleast to housecall/avg), as well as spyware free(SB:S&D, Ad-aware).
Posted by: SKYHN
Is WOL enabled?(Wake on Lan)
I think theres a setting for it in the BIOS.
Posted by: Darky!
No.
Posted by: redwench
are any diagnostics set to wake to run? scandisk or defrag, etc?
Posted by: justinious
Called an exorcist? 
Posted by: arturo238
Try using Norton Antivirus to detect any viruses. I know that it should not make any difference, but one of my computers had this problem a month ago, and Norton was the only suite that detected it.
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