PC powers on by self

[driftz240]

So yeah, was laying in bed, pc was shut off completely, next thing I know pc and rgb lights turn on and it completely boots into windows. Any explanation? Ghosts? Aliens? The shadow-y figure that follows me around? 

[The_russian]

3 minutes ago, driftz240 said:

So yeah, was laying in bed, pc was shut off completely, next thing I know pc and rgb lights turn on and it completely boots into windows. Any explanation? Ghosts? Aliens? The shadow-y figure that follows me around? 

Lol not sure if it is turning on to update or something, but one of my computers does the same thing. If it's aliens or ghosts, then apparently they like AMD more than Intel, because my AMD system is the one that does it.

[Fasauceome]

I never narrowed down if it was my power supply or motherboard that did this to my last system, but it was definitely one of the two

[driftz240]

4 minutes ago, The_russian said:

my AMD system is the one that does it.

Yeah it was an amd system but this is the first time I've ever encountered it first-hand. 

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

I never narrowed down if it was my power supply or motherboard that did this to my last system, but it was definitely one of the two

At least I'm not the only one. Was this a reoccurring issue or a one time thing for you. 

[Fasauceome]

6 minutes ago, driftz240 said:

At least I'm not the only one. Was this a reoccurring issue or a one time thing for you. 

Very frequent. The PC could not be slept or turned off without using the switch on the back of the PSU itself.

 

If I slept the PC, it would wake a couple seconds later. If I turned it off, same thing. If I turned the switch in the back off, it would still try to turn itself back on, but fail.

[Spotty]

Does this happen every time you shut the system down or does it only happen every now and then?

Are you "Shutting Down" or are you putting the system to "Sleep"?
I've been woken a few times in the middle of the night when my system had been put to Sleep and then Windows thought that 3am would be a good time to turn my PC on and start an update.

[driftz240]

12 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

If I slept the PC, it would wake a couple seconds later. If I turned it off, same thing. If I turned the switch in the back off, it would still try to turn itself back on, but fail.

Lets hope thats not the case here lol

7 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Does this happen every time you shut the system down or does it only happen every now and then?

Are you "Shutting Down" or are you putting the system to "Sleep"?

It only happened this one time and the system was shut down completely through windows with the psu switch (obviously) still on. 

[The_russian]

32 minutes ago, driftz240 said:

Yeah it was an amd system but this is the first time I've ever encountered it first-hand. 

At least I'm not the only one. Was this a reoccurring issue or a one time thing for you. 

For me it would happen every time I turned off the computer, so I replaced the power supply. With the new PSU the computer no longer turns on by itself every time, but it does still randomly decides to turn on every once in a while. 

[driftz240]

11 hours ago, The_russian said:

For me it would happen every time I turned off the computer, so I replaced the power supply. With the new PSU the computer no longer turns on by itself every time, but it does still randomly decides to turn on every once in a while. 

I've had this psu for almost a year now and its never turned itself on so it might have been a one time fluke.