Packard Bell Imedia 1459 turns its self on

[AlienMM]

My Packard Bell Imedia 1459 has started to turn its self on with out me touching the power button ( 5 times in the last two days ). I know its 5 years old but its quite scary when it happens in the middle of the night. Any clues? I am running XP Student OP system.

 

[shadowboxer]

First thing would be to rule out a dodgy or sticky connection. Take the side panel off and give it a good clean. Try reseating all front panel connectors (take note where they go first) and also wipe clean the actual on off button (outside and inside). If the sytem is 5 years old then it could well be a build up of grime and grease.

Make sure your running an anti-virus, anti-malware and a firewall. Run full scans regularly to check for spyware etc.

Make sure in the BIOS the options for "WAKE ON..." are disabled.

Try updating drivers for modem sometimes could be a wake on LAN error.

 

[gzylo]

+ if its in the sleep make sure you do not have any high power devices connected to usb or check earlier mentioned WAKE ON options

 

[AlienMM]

Thank you for the advice, I think I have found the source of the problem. I have a maxtor external drive and when I unplug the power for the drive the PC does not start up as soon as I shut down. That was the easy bit now how do I fix the fault with the maxtor external drive. Once the PC is running I can connect the power lead to the maxtor external drive and all my documents are there. I have had the drive for 2 years plus and have always left it connected to the power and the PC, its only in the last 2 months that this has started. It's not a shared PC and I not one for fiddling when something is running ok. Any clues?

 

[gzylo]

try seting in bios wake by usb or someting like that, disable it.
I used to have same problem and solvet it with something similar Watts Clever PC Auto Standby 4 Socket Control Unit Energy Saving (0705105916194) | eBay



basically if you switch of the pc the lead swiches off all other connected items that are plugged in other slots that main.

or you can use hibernation inested of sleep