This might sound batsh*t crazy , laptop power button turning PC on

Hank Scorpio

This is the weirdest thing I've ever witnessed in all my life using computers.

I reached for my laptop this morning and pushed the power button, it turns on then a few seconds later so does my PC. I thought nothing of it, I let the laptop go into standby and turned off the pc.

10 minutes later I wake the laptop up, and same as before the PC turns itself on. At this stage I'm thinking maybe there's something wrong with my electrical circuit, so I plug out the laptop and try again, the PC boots itself up again. I sat and amazement and did it another 4 or 5 times just to be sure, the timing is flawless

I turn off the wifi next, makes no difference. The pc isn't in a standby mode, its completely turned off and the only way to turn it on is by pressing the big button on my haf 932 case.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? How is waking my laptop up making my PC boot from a totally dead state

stimpson

Quantum entanglement?

Magown3

Wake on LAN ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

Hank Scorpio

Magown3 wrote: »

Wake on LAN ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

PC was physically powered off, not in standby.

Re-read that again and I'm wrong it can be turned off, but I turned off the wireless and the same thing happened

Just ran virus scans, all clean.

The only thing I can think of is my PC windows 7 activated today, but the windows 7 on my laptop is not so, erm, legit

But surely this couldn't cause this to happen, it's feckin telepathic!

Won't happen any longer after I turned the power switches on and off. There's a chance the network was still connected, but even then I doubt the old crap eircom netopia router is capable of such things, and I certainty didn't configure anything like that

Overheal

unplug the desktop..

Cuddlesworth

You probably had fast startup enabled recently, which is a hybrid state that's between standby and shutdown. That coupled with WOL without magic packet would do what you described.

Hank Scorpio

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

You probably had fast startup enabled recently, which is a hybrid state that's between standby and shutdown. That coupled with WOL without magic packet would do what you described.

I run windows 7

Hank Scorpio

Overheal wrote: »

unplug the desktop..

Because?

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Hank Scorpio wrote: »

Because?

It's haunted

Overheal

Hank Scorpio

lol ^

So can anyone offer an explanation?

28064212

Unplug the ethernet cable going into the PC, then switch the laptop on. Does the PC still come on? If not, it's most definitely WOL

stimpson

28064212 wrote: »

Unplug the ethernet cable going into the PC, then switch the laptop on. Does the PC still come on? If not, it's most definitely WOL

Move the PC to the far side of the Universe then switch the laptop on. Does the PC still come on? If it does it's most definitely Quantum Entanglement.

Ishmael

Check for the following settings on the network adapters in the PC:



This would be most likely candidate! Other than that, hire an exorcist.

sfbonner

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