LA_MERC_LaTech
January 6th, 2003, 06:17 AM
Hey,
This post is for those of you that remember the weird things that happened to my computer about a year and a half ago. For those that don't remember, I will re-hash what happened: I was asleep and woke up with this urge to check my email. I sat up in bed and I could hear my computer (in a completely different room) begin to boot itself up. This kinda freaked me out (alot).
I have an explination for this occurance that will explain (I think) the whole thing. Here goes...
At that time, I had a crappy keyboard that cost me like $5 or something. It worked well (when it worked), but some of the keys (namely the space bar) were known to stick. Well, this keyboard died a horrible death a while back, and I never thought of it again (we're still finding keyboard keys in the "office").
Well, the other day, I sat down at my computer (which was not turned on) and was messing with Lucy (our dog). Lucy jumped up and hit the space bar on my keyboard, and my computer started to boot. This intrigued me...so I shut down my computer once it got into Windows. I let it sit there for a while, then I hit the space bar. Sure enough, the computer booted.
What happened that night: I had played CS until late (for me) that evening and then I had gone to bed. The space bar of my computer was probably stuck in the depressed position. Once asleep, I sub-consciously heard my computer beep for the second time(there are two beeps on my computer: 1) POST and 2) My monitor turning on causes my battery backup to beep ). The computer, I think, booted because the space bar "un-clicked" itself sometime in the middle of the night.
That's my theory now, anyway...
This post is for those of you that remember the weird things that happened to my computer about a year and a half ago. For those that don't remember, I will re-hash what happened: I was asleep and woke up with this urge to check my email. I sat up in bed and I could hear my computer (in a completely different room) begin to boot itself up. This kinda freaked me out (alot).
I have an explination for this occurance that will explain (I think) the whole thing. Here goes...
At that time, I had a crappy keyboard that cost me like $5 or something. It worked well (when it worked), but some of the keys (namely the space bar) were known to stick. Well, this keyboard died a horrible death a while back, and I never thought of it again (we're still finding keyboard keys in the "office").
Well, the other day, I sat down at my computer (which was not turned on) and was messing with Lucy (our dog). Lucy jumped up and hit the space bar on my keyboard, and my computer started to boot. This intrigued me...so I shut down my computer once it got into Windows. I let it sit there for a while, then I hit the space bar. Sure enough, the computer booted.
What happened that night: I had played CS until late (for me) that evening and then I had gone to bed. The space bar of my computer was probably stuck in the depressed position. Once asleep, I sub-consciously heard my computer beep for the second time(there are two beeps on my computer: 1) POST and 2) My monitor turning on causes my battery backup to beep ). The computer, I think, booted because the space bar "un-clicked" itself sometime in the middle of the night.
That's my theory now, anyway...