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by: TaipansEmporium May 7, 2012 1:01 PM PDT

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Vista machine turns itself on at 20:00 each night?

by TaipansEmporium - 5/7/12 1:01 PM

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I have a Vista Home Basic PC which switches itself on (from full power off not hibernation or sleep) at 20:00 every night. Any ideas on how to stop this?
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Looks like a scheduled shut down.

by MarkFlax Moderator - 5/7/12 1:06 PM

In Reply to: Vista machine turns itself on at 20:00 each night? by TaipansEmporium

Do you mean a shut down, not a Switch off?

If so it looks like a shut down has been scheduled. Have a look at the Task Scheduler.

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by TaipansEmporium - 5/8/12 1:32 AM

In Reply to: Vista machine turns itself on at 20:00 each night? by TaipansEmporium

Hi
No it powers itself on! At 8 o/c every night it switches itself on. cant find anything in the scheduler or BIOS but not entirely sure what I should be looking for in there. I've tried leaving the LAN wire out too. But this is from a full power off not sleep mode and at 8 o/c it starts up! Short of unplugging the thing from the mains I cant find a way to stop it!


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Ahh, my error

by MarkFlax Moderator - 5/8/12 11:18 AM

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and my apologies. I thought I read the system turned itself off.

You mention LAN and there may be an option in the BIOS to WOL, or "Wake on Lan". See if that is enabled. If so disable it, but then check that the OS is not set to WOL as well.

LifeHacker has a good article explaining WOL here; http://lifehacker.com/348197/access-your-computer-anytime-and-save-energy-with-wake+on+lan

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Still got the problem!

by TaipansEmporium - 11/20/12 11:12 AM

In Reply to: Ahh, my error by MarkFlax Moderator

Still got this problem. been into BIOS and checked and everything is disabled. been into network adaptor settings and wake on lane isnt checked.Been intio advanced to and checked no wake on magic packest etc are enabled and they aren't. Any ideas as this drives us mad!!


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