Light switch turns on computer

[mantylt]

Moved to new apartment. Now noticed that my computer turns on (if it's off) every time I turn lights in that room What is happening?

[Comessy]

It's possible that the switch also controls the wall outlet

 

I had that at my old house

[Agazed]

The light switch is hooked up to power in the room im assuming/

[mantylt]

It's possible that the switch also controls the wall outlet

 

I had that at my old house

 

 

The light switch is hooked up to power in the room im assuming/

Is there any way to prevent that?

[Comessy]

Is there any way to prevent that?

You would have to rewire it. 

 

Call an electrician if you don't know how

[Necrodead]

turn the power supply on your computer off when you don't want it to turn on.

[werto165]

It's all down to the photoelectric effect /s

[erty176]

Is there any way to prevent that?

You would have to rewire it. The reason it is like that is because the switch is wired for a lamp that in theory would be continually plugged in and on so when you flip the switch the lamp would be on/off just like any other light. (I have a switch like this in the apartment I currently live in) Turning the power supply off would probably solve this problem. 

[Godlygamer23]

Yup. My apartment has the same thing.

[blackadder]

Yes, please call a electrician, electricity is one of the few things that travel at the speed of light and can kill you not only its going to hurt the whole time you're dying.

[Divide_By_0]

All a light switch does is cut a cable connection to a circuit, said circuit must also contain your computers power outlet, the way's solve this are to:
1) Get an extension cord to another outlet

2) keep the switch up and get another way of turning off the light (Such as a wireless switch?) 

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3) Have an electrician (or yourself if YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.) Rewire the circuit so your computers outlet is independent of the switch.

 

Be very careful, Electricity can easily Kill you or cause a fire, killing others.