[+11] Why would a PC turn itself on at midnight every night?

[Special]

just unplug it when you come off at night??

[N!ck]

It won't be a setting in Windows. It's most likely what Stephen said. Look in the BIOS.

[BeanEgg]

Perhaps auto-updates at around 12am? Not sure though.

[triston220]

Try clicking F2, F10 or DEL at startup to get in the BIOS settings. Then find the setting and turn it off.

[MattFr]

Could be a wake-on-lan setting in the router.

How do you set wake-on-lan on the router when the NIC has to support the feature, and have it turned on?

Do everything suggested. Check power settings in the BIOS and check the settings on your network adapter.

[Metric1]

just get a new one..

[Recursion]

How do you set wake-on-lan on the router when the NIC has to support the feature, and have it turned on?

Do everything suggested. Check power settings in the BIOS and check the settings on your network adapter.

99% of NICs nowadays support it and quite a few BIOSes have it enabled by default.

To other people; I wish people would stop posting sugestions when it's clear they don't know what they're on about

[Black_Apalachi]

just unplug it when you come off at night??

Not helpful.

just get a new one..

Not helpful.

Have you tried looking into the control panel looking at power options or anything to do with power that is pre-installed? Might be some setting in the BIOS as well.

OH MY GOD ITS A GHOST

some computers have setting which allow the computer to be turned on and perform tasks. check to see if any backups, virus scans or disk defragmentations/cleanups or any other tasks aren't set to run at midnight

It's a BIOS setting, go mash DEL, or one of the F keys during the PC's POST (beginning of boot) and find it.

Try clicking F2, F10 or DEL at startup to get in the BIOS settings. Then find the setting and turn it off.

I'll look into all of these, thanks

[Sharon]

Wait what does the pc do when it turns on?

[Black_Apalachi]

It just starts up Windows as far as I know and stays on.