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mjmondry20

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I am running Windows 98 and my computer turns itelf on everyday at exactly 2:00 pm. I went into BIOS, but could not find anything on computer waking itself up and was tentative to change anything in there. I disabled task scheduler and scheduling agent. I am not sure where else to look. Any help would be great. Thank you.
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Hi there

This is almost certainly being caused by a setting in the bios.

Go back into the bios & look for the section relating to power management. In that section you should hopefully see a setting worded something like : Power on (or Resume) by RTC (or alarm). If you have this setting, you'll probably find it its been enabled. Simply disabled it to prevent the computer from powering on every day at 2pm.

NB In some bios's, there are many sub-menus etc so if you go into the power management section but can't see the setting I described, there may be sub-sections which won't be visible until you highlight the relevant heading & press Enter.
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I went back to BIOS and went to Power Management. There were five headings. The first was "Power Management Support" and enabled was selected with disabled being the only other choice. The second was "Fan Always On" with no being selected and yes being the other choice. The third was "IDE Drive Power Down" with enabled selected and disabled the other choice. The fourth was "VESA Video Power Down" with suspend selected and disabled, stand by, and sleep the other choices. The last one was "Power Button Behavior" with on/off selected and sleep/wake the other option.
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It's a ghost
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mjmondry20

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It seems like a ghost. I don't know if I should change the IDE Drive Power Down or the VESA Video Power Down.
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I would look everywhere in the bios for the options Wake on LAN.

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Would it be wise to restore the defaults in BIOS?
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You could try restoring bios defaults as it shouldn't do any harm.
Is this a big brand name computer (eg Dell, HP, Packard Bell etc)? If so, whats the make & model?
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It's an old Gateway model 366 that still dials up, with no ethernet card installed. I restored the defaults with the same problem.
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How do you know the problem still exists if the problem only occurs at 2pm each day?
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After I make any change, I reset the system clock to 1:55 pm and shutdown to test it. At 2:00 pm, it starts up by itself.
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Ah, OK!

I'm having trouble locating your particular Gateway model of Gateways website. Does it have another letter or name in front of the 366 part?
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No, just 366. On the back of the tower it says Gateway Select 366 if that helps.
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Should I pull the battery out so that BIOS resets itself?
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