my Hackintosh turns on by itself. Why?

[michaelcly]

After upgrading to 10.9.2, my pc is running when I get home. It happens every day. Wake from network is off. Not sure what to look for. Is it an Apple thing, like software update? Is there a log somewhere that would show who is accessing it?

 

[zolo185]

After upgrading to 10.9.2, my pc is running when I get home. It happens every day. Wake from network is off. Not sure what to look for. Is it an Apple thing, like software update? Is there a log somewhere that would show who is accessing it?

Bump

I'd also like to know. i just finished my build and it have it on 10.9.2.....I shut down thru the mac and it shuts down but 2 seconds later it starts back up. I don't know why either

 

[Koalaman]

I had this problem as well, a bios setting (can't remember exactly) fixed it.


References:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/59329-computer-auto-restarts-when-shut-down-selected.html

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Try disabling Wake-On-Lan in your bios.

 

[Koalaman]

Try disabling Wake-On-Lan in your bios.

"Wake from network is off."

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

"Wake from network is off."

Have you tried looking in your system logs for any clues ?

 

[michaelcly]

Thanks for all advice.

System logs didn't reveal anything unusual but did show times. I kinda ruled out OSX but don't know enough about Windows 7.
I couldn't find a bios setting for waking by lan. In power management I did find "Resume by alarm" was enabled. I disabled it—we'll see.

Now I'm betting it's the BIOS settings or NSA I recently fiddled with bios settings to get my turbo Enabled. I never new it was off but that's another story.

I'll poke around the BIOS settings some more.

Koalaman Sorry about the Wolverines. I'm a fan too...grew up real close... er...tried anyway.

Just had a thought: maybe it was in a hibernate mode or something

 

[Koalaman]

Haha yeah, I'm a freshman here. If I can remember, my fix to this problem was wake from lan and/or "power up after failure."

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Thanks for all advice.

System logs didn't reveal anything unusual but did show times. I kinda ruled out OSX but don't know enough about Windows 7.
I couldn't find a bios setting for waking by lan. In power management I did find "Resume by alarm" was enabled. I disabled it—we'll see.

Now I'm betting it's the BIOS settings or NSA I recently fiddled with bios settings to get my turbo Enabled. I never new it was off but that's another story.

I'll poke around the BIOS settings some more.

Koalaman Sorry about the Wolverines. I'm a fan too...grew up real close... er...tried anyway.

Just had a thought: maybe it was in a hibernate mode or something

Im pretty sure Wake-On-Lan is available in your bios. You should double check.

 

[michaelcly]

Im pretty sure Wake-On-Lan is available in your bios. You should double check.

I couldn't find it. BUT turning off the resume Alarm thing solved the problem. No more mysterious start ups.

Thanks!