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My PC has been turning itself on every night, like clockwork, around (or at) 3:50am. I've checked to make sure I didn't have any tasks scheduled for that time and have disabled wan on lan and wake on magic packet, and neither seems to be doing the trick. Is there any way to isolate what exactly is causing this? Could it be a mobo issue? Thank you for the help :D

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It is a ghost.

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My PC has been turning itself on every night, like clockwork, around (or at) 3:50am. I've checked to make sure I didn't have any tasks scheduled for that time and have disabled wan on lan and wake on magic packet, and neither seems to be doing the trick. Is there any way to isolate what exactly is causing this? Could it be a mobo issue? Thank you for the help :D

Is it turning on from sleep or from being completely shut down? If its from sleep, it could be something simple as your mouse. I know if I leave my wireless mouse on while its in sleep, it will wake my PC with the slightest movements. If your machine is completely shutdown, you might have bigger issues.

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probably a shorted case pin check or replace the power/reset cable,  & have a bottle of holy water nearby just in case if that sh*t happens again after that,

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Use holy water instead of coolants on your water cooling system...

 

or 

 

get a better anti-virus, it could be that new ghost virus lurking around haunting peoples computers. I heard it aims to increase your electricity bill instead of destroying your system.

 

OR

 

like every cliche american horror film, try to get to the bottom of it...

 

ok, ya I'm done...these jokes are terrifyingly horrible...

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You should be fine unless your monitor turns on by itself too, then that's when you gtfo of your house and run for your life.

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An exorcism has been scheduled for my pc  ;)

 

In the meantime, is there anything else I can try? The computer is completely shut down so it's not mouse movement or anything like that. Seems to either be a power supply issue, a mobo issue, or maybe just some windows setting I have?

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there could be some windows process be scheduled for liek 3:00 in the night. you can look up the schedule and see for yourself google is helpful with how to.

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there could be some windows process be scheduled for liek 3:00 in the night. you can look up the schedule and see for yourself google is helpful with how to.

 

Didn't know an OS can send requests(like this guy's problem) to the UEFI to turn on the PSU and power itself on its own :blink:

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Didn't know an OS can send requests(like this guy's problem) to the UEFI to turn on the PSU and power itself on its own :blink:

well you right i was assuming it woke from sleep on its own because that it can. when its shut off i dont know 

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I think your Power supply is cursed/haunted whatever. Try purifying your power supply next time you go to church and tell them the devil cursed your power supply unit.

If that does not work then I suggest drawing a devil summoning circle in front of your computer so you can combat against it. Though, I don't recommend this method as it's a 50/50 because either they fight to the death or you die somehow.

 

Cheers and goodluck m8 :)

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Sigh....

 

In your device manager make sure none of your Peripherals are causing your computer to wake up.

 

In Keyboards and Mouse and other pointing devices, right click on one of them, go to "Properties" and Power Management, "Allow this device to wake up this PC" something, and untick it.. Keep doing it for all the devices you see in Keyboards and Mouses and out pointing devices sections.

 

Okay? It happened to me too, awhile ago where my PC would just start on its own for no reason. That solved me the problem, dunno why it did but it did. :P

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just google it there is a comand for the command prompt that lets you see what woke up the system the last time. i would post a link but im at work right now

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Mine does the same so I refrain from turning it off. It is kind of scary to be honest.

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I had that too. It was caused by my mouse. Turned the ability to activated the PC to off.

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I had this problem so I checked Event Viewer and it turned out to be Windows Media Player update. I'm sure eventviewer would tell you something

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Could be wake on LAN enabled in the bios. 

Or that crappy little battery on the motherboard has started dying, that's responsible for maintaining things like system clock when there is no power,

so if that gets low sometimes it turns the pc back on to charge itself back up?

 

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