[pityocamptes]

Hoping to get some help here. About two months ago my system started acting weird. When I shut down from the start menu it does what it is supposed to do. However, about 20 min to 30 min later it will restart on its own. I have no idea why. I have gone into BIOS and disabled all wake ups. I have gone into power management and disables/set properties accordingly. I still turns itself back on after being shut down for about 30 min. I don't think it is a power supply problem because when it turns back on and boots to the BIOS password (set password in BIOS) I can turn the system off using the on/off button on the front of the tower and it will stay off until I decide to turn it back on. Something is triggering the BIOS/CMOS to turn back on. I wonder if it could be a virus or program on my system? I have run AVG and it found no viruses. I currently have NoAdware, AVG, and StopZilla. I can do a HijackThis log and post it here if anyone thinks it might be a software conflict. Any ideas how to isolate it. Its driving me freakin' nuts. Thanks!

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I could be a corrupted bios, or a virus hit it. You might try reflashing the bios. Note: Follow the bios flashing steps on the motherboard manufacture's site to a "T"... or... you may end up with a dead machine.

[makai]

I could be a corrupted bios, or a virus hit it. You might try reflashing the bios. Note: Follow the bios flashing steps on the motherboard manufacture's site to a "T"... or... you may end up with a dead machine.

[pityocamptes]

I could be a corrupted bios, or a virus hit it.  You might try reflashing the bios.  Note:  Follow the bios flashing steps on the motherboard manufacture's site to a "T"... or... you may end up with a dead machine.

Thanks. I reflashed it the other day but it made no difference. Any other ideas?

[pityocamptes]

OK, here is what I did to try and narrow this problem down. Last night I disabled StopZilla services (don't think that really made a difference). I had read an article that said the power button can sometimes do this. So I pulled the front panel pins off the MOBO for reset, shutdown, and led light. I also pulled out the phone plug (eventhough I disabled wake on ring in modem and BIOS). I shutdown the system and checked back after a couple of hours and it was still down. So I plugged everything back in (what I should have done is add one component at a time - will try that tonight) and rebooted, and then shut down. I checked back again around two hours later and the system was still down. So I figure it was a lose reset or on/off plug on the MOBO. I woke up this morning and the system was on It seems that it may be one of those components. Any ideas? Thanks.

[pityocamptes]

OK. It ended up being a bad modem card. Will get a new one today. Just thought I'd pass that on.

[Tyger]

OK. It ended up being a bad modem card. Will get a new one today. Just thought I'd pass that on.

Your modem card may not be bad, it may just be set to powerup on LAN.

[RAz]

yes Tyger is right...
are you sure you dissabled the "wake on lan" feature from the BIOS?

Edited by RAz, 19 August 2005 - 03:01 PM.

[pityocamptes]

Yes, I am 100% sure that I disabled it. I initially pulled the phone cord from the modem but it still kicked on after a while. Then I pulled the whol card and it has continued to stay off. Bad cap or other component on the modem card?