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    My 1210 Turned on By Itself

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jtom, Mar 13, 2007.

  1. jtom

    jtom Notebook Evangelist

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    Last night I shut off my notebook, not standby or anything. I woke up the next morning and the front lights, power button, and a few other lights were all on but the screen was black. I moved the mouse around and it did nothing and I pressed the power button and that also did nothing. I had to hold down the power button until all the lights went off.

    Any Ideas?

    Thanks
     
    jtom, Mar 13, 2007
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  2. Psychokitty

    Psychokitty Notebook Guru

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    Could be it was updating, downloading or installing a download from Microsoft at the time you tried to Shutdown.

    Could be the "Wake on LAN" is set to "Yes" in the BIOS. I dunno exactly how that works or what it's used for, but it sounds like it's an option for the computer to be turned on by a command sent via wifi or ethernet.
     
    Psychokitty, Mar 13, 2007
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Wake On LAN is pretty buggy in my experiences. If you have that enabled I'd just turn it off and see if that fixes the problem.
     
    Greg, Mar 13, 2007
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    Yeah... take a good look on power configurations.. your answer might be there.
    Maybe it didn't shut down properly also. Or someone else is messing with your lappie (pa-ra-no-ia) o_O
     
    XSportSeeker, Mar 14, 2007
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  5. mtor

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    Yea i suggest you turn off Wake on Lan
     
    mtor, Mar 14, 2007
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  6. Superczar

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    Wake on LAN would not switch on a powered-Offmachine..it can only bring up a machine on standby

    Most likely, it was an improper shutdown, where the machine did not shut down completely due to some hung process
     
    Superczar, Mar 15, 2007
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  7. szandor

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    destroy it before they send someone back to kill sarah conner...
     
    szandor, Mar 16, 2007
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