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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:45:57 -0900
From:      Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>
To:        FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Laptop starts back up on  its own
Message-ID:  <1070099157.4333.107.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1070095381.711.3.camel@klamath>
References:  <3FC807D2.5090209@fastmail.fm> <1070095381.711.3.camel@klamath>

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On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 23:43, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:43, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > First time I've seen this happen...I've installed FreeBSD:
> > 
> > FreeBSD laptop.fbsdsizemore.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu 
> > Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003     root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com                
> > :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > 
> > on my laptop.  When I shut the PC down at night, I wake to find it back 
> > on again a little later.  Today I shut it down, left the house, came 
> > back and it was on again.
> > 
> > I shut down by entering 'shutdown -h (or -p) now' at the command line 
> > and then depressing the power button after it says OK to power down or 
> > 'press any key to restart'.  It does power down completely and then a 
> > little later (not sure how long it takes), it's back on again.
> > 
> > Looking for some things to check to get to the root (no pun intended) of 
> > this.
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> one thing to check: Did you set a timer in the laptop's BIOS? 
> 
> Regards,

Have you talked to a preist?

Sorry, couldn't resist.



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