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PC Weirdness
Jun. 22nd, 2005 03:52 pmThe other day ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy and I got home from work and brought some groceries into the house. At some point I happened to glance at my computer and noticed that it was running, with the BIOS password box on the monitor. I was puzzled. I didn't remember turning it on, but it's possible that I flipped the switch in passing with the idea of having it ready when I was ready to sit down. Odd.
Yesterday I got home and saw that it was on again. Same situation. It was waiting for the BIOS password. This time I know I didn't turn it on, and I was sure I'd turned it off the night before--I'd waited to be sure it was completely shut down (screen blank, power light on the box dark, no fan or CD movement). Snippy suggested that perhaps I'd only restarted it. Unlikely, I thought, but certainly possible.
So last night I very carefully made sure I selected log out on the shutdown menu (SuSE 9.0), the same as I've always used. I waited until the system shut down. Screen dark, power light out, no signs of any kind of activity in the computer box. I waited a couple of minutes to be sure. Nothing.
This morning I got up to find the BIOS password screen on the monitor again. So, assuming that neither Snippy nor Twoson are gaslighting me, and that I don't have a ghost trying desperately to boot up my computer...what the heck is going on? I'd have thought that it was impossible for the system to boot up this way once I'd shut it down, but--clearly--I'm wrong.
At this point I can only assume that shutting down via the log off command is not, in fact, truly equivalent to holding in the power switch til the power shuts off, as I'd thought. But if it's simply rebooting, why doesn't it reboot immediately? If it doesn't reboot immediately, how can it reboot when the system is (seemingly) powered down? Is it a software issue? A hardware issue? Enquiring minds want to know.
snippy and I got home from work and brought some groceries into the house. At some point I happened to glance at my computer and noticed that it was running, with the BIOS password box on the monitor. I was puzzled. I didn't remember turning it on, but it's possible that I flipped the switch in passing with the idea of having it ready when I was ready to sit down. Odd.Yesterday I got home and saw that it was on again. Same situation. It was waiting for the BIOS password. This time I know I didn't turn it on, and I was sure I'd turned it off the night before--I'd waited to be sure it was completely shut down (screen blank, power light on the box dark, no fan or CD movement). Snippy suggested that perhaps I'd only restarted it. Unlikely, I thought, but certainly possible.
So last night I very carefully made sure I selected log out on the shutdown menu (SuSE 9.0), the same as I've always used. I waited until the system shut down. Screen dark, power light out, no signs of any kind of activity in the computer box. I waited a couple of minutes to be sure. Nothing.
This morning I got up to find the BIOS password screen on the monitor again. So, assuming that neither Snippy nor Twoson are gaslighting me, and that I don't have a ghost trying desperately to boot up my computer...what the heck is going on? I'd have thought that it was impossible for the system to boot up this way once I'd shut it down, but--clearly--I'm wrong.
At this point I can only assume that shutting down via the log off command is not, in fact, truly equivalent to holding in the power switch til the power shuts off, as I'd thought. But if it's simply rebooting, why doesn't it reboot immediately? If it doesn't reboot immediately, how can it reboot when the system is (seemingly) powered down? Is it a software issue? A hardware issue? Enquiring minds want to know.
