Zombie PC! Restarts by itself!

I've seen Wake on LAN do this before... Do you have it enabled in the BIOS?
 
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What is wake up on LAN do ... ?

I have a zombie PC (no screen, keyboard, mouse) and I can shut down remotely but I need to walk to the box to turn it on again.
 
If you send the machine a "magic packet" it detects it and wakes the machine up.
 
So on the remote PC you set WoL to 'on' in BIOS, and on the other machine? What do you use to send the magic packet?
 
@Carderne - also check out your PSU. Sometimes when they start going pair they don't shut down the machine properly.
 
carderne said:
@thestealth
That is a possibility... It's a 250W and is pretty old... And it seems to have stopped restarting, except just now, I turned it on and then, during POST, changed my mind and turned it off - but it came back to life again... Is there any way that I can check the 'trustworthiness' of my PSU?
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If you know of someone that wouldn't mind you borrowing their PSU for 10 minutes, then do it :)

I find it's easier to just swap PSUs than to check each one individually...
 
@carderne - Before we lynch your PSU, can you aslo please check your power saving/ACPI in the OS and your BIOS? There is the possibility that your "when power button is pushed..." is set to restart or that your PC is trying to STR (Suspend to RAM). With the power needed for the latter, your 220w might not have enough oomph to do. You can try setting your ACPI to either S1 or S3 or S1/S3 if you bios allows it, do a full boot and see what happens. If you let me know what area you're in, you can get a
300w from me to test with. I'm in CT. Let me know what you find.
 
also checked for popped caps...

i had a motherboard that did that and turned out it was busted caps
 
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