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One little annoyance with "BIOS" based motherboards, at least in the case of Gigabyte models, but potentially also on a lot of other brands is when you go to shut your system down, it power off and then right back on again. It turns out that in most cases this should be really easy to solve and it’s related to a single setting in the BIOS.Often the simplest solutions are the ones that are overlooked. In the cases of Gigabyte’s 5 and 6-series chipset based motherboards with BIOS, you have go into the Power Management Settings and find an option called PME Event Wake Up. If you disable this, the system should no longer power itself back on when shut down from within the OS. It might also be worth disabling the Power On by Ring setting, but this shouldn’t have any effect as such.
The only downside of doing this is if you reply on Wake on LAN as this would be the equivalent setting to Wake on LAN in the UEFI based motherboards, a setting which has the same effect when it comes to powering off the system. Disable it and your system will power off just fine, but Wake on LAN doesn’t work.
Hopefully this will help a lot of you that have experienced issues with your system not switching off properly. We’d like to hear from you in the comments if this has solved your problem, especially on non-Gigabyte boards, although it’s possible that the specific setting is called something else in different BIOSes.
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