Laptop starts back up on its own

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:45:57AM -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> 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?

Or have called the gostbusters? :D

> Sorry, couldn't resist.

-- 
Alex

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