Computer turns itself on

I am running Windows 98 and my computer turns itelf on everyday at exactly 2:00 pm. I went into BIOS, but could not find anything on computer waking itself up and was tentative to change anything in there. I disabled task scheduler and scheduling agent. I went back to BIOS and went to Power Management. There were five headings. The first was "Power Management Support" and enabled was selected with disabled being the only other choice. The second was "Fan Always On" with no being selected and yes being the other choice. The third was "IDE Drive Power Down" with enabled selected and disabled the other choice. The fourth was "VESA Video Power Down" with suspend selected and disabled, stand by, and sleep the other choices. The last one was "Power Button Behavior" with on/off selected and sleep/wake the other option. I searched every other subheading for "Wake on ...." and could not find it anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

No ethernet card installed. Computer has just dial-up.

 

Just tried it, reset the clock to 1:58pm to test it, shutdown, and at 2:00pm it turned back on. Very strange.

 

If the computer is waking up, and it is not powered down, that means that it is in "Stand-By" mode. If completely powered down, it is most likely sensing on the Keyboard, Mouse, or even Modem. Who is the manufacturer & what model of computer, so that we can help you better.

 

The computer is turning on when it is shutdown. I am using a Gateway model 366.

 

What series? If it is turning itself on from total power down, then it is a Wake-Up setting in the Bios, and nothing more.

 

The only thing on the back of the tower states Gateway Select 366, I'm not sure if thats the series or not. I assumed from the start it was a BIOS issue, but after searching through BIOS many, many times, I could not find anything that stated "Wake on" anything. There's four headings on top in BIO - Main, Advanced, Security, and Exit. Under Main, there is Date, Time, Floppy Options, IDE Options, Language, Boot Options. Under Advanced, there is Peripheral Config., Advanced Chipset Config., and Power Management Config. Security is just user and admin. passwords. Under Power Management I just found what was stated in the first post.

 

Strange very strange how about the BIOS battery, just a thought, after that I draw a blank like you mjmondry20 other than MS gremlins

 

Possibly a battery problem? If so, any way to correct it?

 

Yea just change the CMOS battery its a small silver thing about the size a quarter on your Motherboard, there good for about three to four years usually sometimes longer.......when they get weak you can get some strange BIOS problems, Oh and there fairly cheap, you have to open the case to access it. hope that does it for you mjmondry20

PS:- The battery is what keeps your BIOS memory alive well your shut down from the power grid. These photos might help

 

Should the tower be plugged in or does it not matter?

 

ALWAYS UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE OPENING even though the power switch is off there is still power to your PSU unit inside the case.

 

Unfortunately, it was not the battery.

 

If you had the power supply unpluged, and removed and changed the battery, you should have noticed that the cmos was cleared,[ date and time not set] I would think that if you clear the cmos, that wake on lan would go back to default. Un plug power supply, take mother board battery out for a few minutes, reinstall. ed

 

Should I keep the battery out for a certain amount of time so that BIOS will reset itself?

 

Only about a minute should work. Some of the older Motherboards actually had a jumper on them to reset the Bios, due to pulling the battery would not do it.

 

Hi mjmondry20, have you been able to fix it yet? Frankly, no offences meant, but its the first time I have heard of such a situation! Its good that you are posting all the updates here-allows us to benefit from it as well, should we ever face such a puzzling situation in future!
Hope you can solve this problem soon.

 

The only solution seems to be shutting the surge strip off after usage.

 

What happens, when you bypass the surge protector? Like, plugging in the computer directly to your wall outlet?

 

Same result.