Yes, it's true. Well, perhaps "possessed" is a little extreme - the term might even be a little over-used (eep!) - but there is something fishy going on, let me tell ya.
A while back, when I was sleeping in our guest bed with Plava, trying to nurse her back to sleep one sleepless night, I was woken to the sound of the computer booting Windows up. You know the song - the dramatic symphony ushering in the desktop. It was the middle of the night. I turned around to look at the screen, all brightly lit up and loading the desktop. We don't turn our computer off, or ever even log out of Windows. So what the heck was this machine up to?
It happened a couple times more when I was sleeping in there with Plava. Each time I tried to figure out what it could be - was the cat walking on the keyboard? Was Ryan doing a midnight check of his email? Nope. Nothing.
Now one or two of you may be sitting back, chuckling, knowing exactly what's going on. "Haha," you think, "That silly Laura doesn't know that computers have a habit of logging themselves off and back on spontaneously in the night! Sucker!"
But to me, it's really a mystery.
More recently, I've been woken up in the middle of the night by hearing the computer do the same thing from across the hall. I look up and can see the dim blue light glowing from the guest room.
So, what's the verdict people? What the heck is my computer doing? Dad? Andrew? Ryan? Any ideas? Anyone? Can anyone relate?
3 comments:
Two things are jumping to mind right away:
First, in the the PC world, it is all too common to experience strange problems, and the causes and solutions are more often then not as strange as the problem.
Secondly, and maybe a bit more helpful... I would try to avoid keeping the computer on constantly. On a PC there are many things necessary to the health of the computer that only get loaded once at a full boot-up (cold boot). It has been my experience that bugs occur very often that will stop certain things from running on your computer. If you like always having the computer at your fingertips without having to wait always, you can hibernate the computer instead of a full shut down. (Click "Start -> Turn off Computer" and press shift to access the hibernate feature) Your computer will shut down, but the next time you turn it on, you won't have to wait as long to boot it up.
Then every month or so, do a full shut down and restart.
Other suggestions: (e-mail me if you want further explanation or instruction)
- Search for adware and spyware that might be attaching itself to your computer
- Virus scan
Wow... long reply.
Right on! Thanks Andrew. I think I'll try the hibernation thing first.
Ah yes! That made me laugh! Not because I'm thinking "HAHA sucker" but because mine has done that too (that is before we gave up on it and are using our iBook as our main computer).
I think Anrew's email pretty much covered what I thought it would be. Good ol' PC sickness.
Good luck with that!
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