abit ip35 pro question

muggs · 24 Aug 2008 at 17:27

abit ip35 pro wierd happening

ok i own a ip35 pro and i have not looked in the manual because i cant be bothered to find it, but something strange happened to me the other day and im wondering if you guys know how to make it happen again.

i came home from work for lunch and went to the bedroom picked up a haynes manual and opened it to read. it was resting on the keyboard. the pc was off. anyway was reading away with my desk fan on and i hear the vista startup sound, i looked at my pc and it was ON!!.

so it must have been my haynes manual resting on certain keys/key to start my pc up. so can the ip35 pro be started up via the keyboard?? this would be very usefull for me if you can tell me what keys i should use. i have a z-board merc stealth board and no uguru display thing.

cheers

Phatzy · 24 Aug 2008 at 18:00

yes keyboards can switch the pc on via the bios, but you must have put the pc to sleep-mode, pressing a key the computer turns on to resume operation where you last left off.

muggs · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:46

Phatzy said:
yes keyboards can switch the pc on via the bios, but you must have put the pc to sleep-mode, pressing a key the computer turns on to resume operation where you last left off.

no i did not put the pc into sleep mode, i always shut down every night, and i have and use the vista gadget that has the restart/shutdown/lock buttons on it.(so no chance of using the sleep button that looks like a shutdown button in the start menu)my pc also has lights and uv tubes in it, something i would have noticed the night before, before going to bed, not to mention the sound.

the pc was deffos off.

platinum87 · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:53

same for me, its off, but press power button and its up to the login screen by the time the monitor turns on

muggs · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:44

that sounds like hibernation to me.

im trying to find out how i turned the pc on from it being completely of via the keybo

Tetras · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:48

the pc was deffos off.

I'm assuming it was still on at the power plug? If so then you probably initiated a keyboard resume event (yes, I made that up). I'm not sure what it would be listed as but it would be in the same menu as the boot from LAN option. If so then any key would work.

UKDTweak · 25 Aug 2008 at 10:19

There is an option in the Bios that allows you to turn the PC on via the keyboard, in the power options, have you checked to see if it is enabled?

muggs · 1 Sep 2008 at 01:48

UKDTweak said:
There is an option in the Bios that allows you to turn the PC on via the keyboard, in the power options, have you checked to see if it is enabled?

right i checked, it was on button only it, look at all the options in the pic, i tried them all none worked. i dont know how i started it up before.

muggs · 1 Sep 2008 at 01:49

Tetras said:
I'm assuming it was still on at the power plug? If so then you probably initiated a keyboard resume event (yes, I made that up). I'm not sure what it would be listed as but it would be in the same menu as the boot from LAN option. If so then any key would work.

yes it had power, boot menu hey. will try that next

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