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I've made a post about this before but it's come back to haunt me. I suspect it's a hardware side issue and how I built the PC. Any ideas why a PC would boot up on its own?

 

Would turn on after being completely shut down, no power failure or whatever crap. Maybe it's how I plugged the power pin or how a motherboard issue?

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Do you have any PCI cards installed?

 

It can be disabled on the BIOS.

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the BIOS might have a "powerstate" option, which might be set to "ON" you should set it to off, or "last state" 

 

that bios option has to do with powerfailure, if the power died, it will either go to an off, on, or "last" powerstate

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I've made a post about this before but it's come back to haunt me. I suspect it's a hardware side issue and how I built the PC. Any ideas why a PC would boot up on its own?

 

Would turn on after being completely shut down, no power failure or whatever crap. Maybe it's how I plugged the power pin or how a motherboard issue?

Log when it turns on, as it may be the option in bios that allows you to turn it on at a set time.

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I've made a post about this before but it's come back to haunt me. I suspect it's a hardware side issue and how I built the PC. Any ideas why a PC would boot up on its own?

 

Would turn on after being completely shut down, no power failure or whatever crap. Maybe it's how I plugged the power pin or how a motherboard issue?

Most of the times I have fixed peoples PC's is because of a build up of dust that cases a static charge to bridge the two pins! The other issue is the power switch is faulty, I think if ur MB is set to defaults then it should not self turn on from the factory...

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