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    [Need advice] dv6500t turns on randomly?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by breakhard77, Jul 10, 2008.

  1. breakhard77

    breakhard77 Newbie

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    Hey everyone. My year-old dv6500t tends to randomly turn on at night while I'm sleeping. When I wake up, I find it on with the fan going full blast. Is there any way I can stop this? Thanks! :)
     
    breakhard77, Jul 10, 2008
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Any more conditions? Perhaps windows update is set to automatically update at night... Check the update settings, and then we can look for other problems..
     
    sesshomaru, Jul 10, 2008
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  3. Teraforce

    Teraforce Flying through life

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    One surefire way to stop your computer from booting itself is to unplug it and take the battery out.

    But to be honest with you, I have no idea what's actually causing the problem. Check windows update like sesshomaru said. Perhaps it has something to do with QuickPlay? (just guessing)
     
    Teraforce, Jul 10, 2008
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  4. Envision

    Envision Notebook Deity

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    Check your event logs and see what time your laptop actually turns on in the middle of the night. See if there is a pattern of what time and what day the laptop turns on at. You might even see that a program is set to run, or that a Windows process is set to run during that time and may turn on your laptop so that it can.

    Other than that, do you haven anti-virus? It could be possible that you have a virus and it is causing your laptop to turn on randomly. Now don't panic or anything because I said the V word, I'm just thinking out all the variables right now. Besides, if you don't have anti-virus (even if you do, make sure you are updating and running it regularly) you should get it now.
     
    Envision, Jul 10, 2008
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  5. breakhard77

    breakhard77 Newbie

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    Thanks for all the (very quick!) input, guys. I tried turning off automatic updates, so we'll see if that works. Thanks again! :)
     
    breakhard77, Jul 10, 2008
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    xvvvz Notebook Evangelist

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    In my case, it was actually the HP Update software that was starting up my PC, not Windows. Just an FYI.
     
    xvvvz, Jul 11, 2008
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