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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Rhydmath on March 24, 2004, 14:14

Title: PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Rhydmath on March 24, 2004, 14:14

I have recently installed a new firewire card on my pc, I run on XP Pro., I've had the card to work great, but I :( have to turn off the pc manually, I select turn-off, and it does, in all fairness turn off, but as it does so, so it powers up again !!
It has only happened after installing the new ieee1394 card.
By m/b is reletively knew, I installed a Gigabyte GA-7VA some 6 months ago.

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Clive on March 24, 2004, 14:46

Hi Rhydmath and  :welcome:  One of our techies will be along shortly to help you with your problem.

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Sandra on March 24, 2004, 15:00

Check in the BIOS and make sure tha wake up on LAN isnt enabled.
Cant think of anything else to suggest at the moment but I havent fully woken up yet  :)

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: ketamininja on March 24, 2004, 17:35

^ also check the properties for the card in Windows to make sure that wake up isn't on.

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Adept on March 24, 2004, 18:58

Quote from: Rhydmath on March 24, 2004, 14:14

I have recently installed a new firewire card on my pc, I run on XP Pro., I've had the card to work great, but I :( have to turn off the pc manually, I select turn-off, and it does, in all fairness turn off, but as it does so, so it powers up again !!
It has only happened after installing the new ieee1394 card.
By m/b is reletively knew, I installed a Gigabyte GA-7VA some 6 months ago.

Hi Rhydmath :welcome:

My PC started doing this a while back too and coincidentally I installed a Firewire card around the same time :o I haven't bothered fixing it because I hardly ever turn off my PC ::)

Have you tried to obtain updated drivers for the card?

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Rhydmath on March 24, 2004, 19:05

Quote from: Sandra on March 24, 2004, 15:00

Check in the BIOS and make sure tha wake up on LAN isnt enabled.
Cant think of anything else to suggest at the moment but I havent fully woken up yet  :)
[Thanks for the suggestion, it was actually enabled, but having disabled, it still does the same thing! But thanks, this may have been 50% of the problem, I now have to find the other 50%!!/quote]

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: Rhydmath on March 24, 2004, 19:16

Quote from: ketamininja on March 24, 2004, 17:35

^ also check the properties for the card in Windows to make sure that wake up isn't on.
[Thanks for the quick response, I have just checked this out  having read your suggestion, but this option hadn't been enabled./quote]

Title: Re:PC not powering down after installing firewire card
Post by: ketamininja on March 24, 2004, 19:58

Very strange.

Also in the BIOS, try turning the ON POWER LOSS option to nothing. Usually labelled AC BACK. This option means if AC power is lost, when it is detected online again, start PC.

Shouldn't really affect the card tho  :-\