Laptop starts back up on its own
Jon Reynolds
jonr at destar.net
Sat Nov 29 01:48:02 PST 2003
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 23:43, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:43, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > First time I've seen this happen...I've installed FreeBSD:
> >
> > FreeBSD laptop.fbsdsizemore.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu
> > Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com
> > :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> >
> > on my laptop. When I shut the PC down at night, I wake to find it back
> > on again a little later. Today I shut it down, left the house, came
> > back and it was on again.
> >
> > I shut down by entering 'shutdown -h (or -p) now' at the command line
> > and then depressing the power button after it says OK to power down or
> > 'press any key to restart'. It does power down completely and then a
> > little later (not sure how long it takes), it's back on again.
> >
> > Looking for some things to check to get to the root (no pun intended) of
> > this.
> >
> Hi,
>
> one thing to check: Did you set a timer in the laptop's BIOS?
>
> Regards,
Have you talked to a preist?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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