Robert Green wrote:
(Amusing rant snipped)

heh. Reminds me of my confusion when I came home and found my youngest
two PCs on, and I knew I had left them off. There had been a power blip,
because some of the clocks were blinking 1200. This happened 2-3 times
(thunderstorm season in a semi-rural area), before the penny dropped and
I looked in the BIOS on the PCs, and found a setting where one could
choose to auto-boot after a power loss. Guess it is part of ATX standard
for some reason- mebbe for non-attended operations. But the BIOS let me
disable it, so no more ghosts.

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aem sends....