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I have an interesting query, my cat can turn on my computer by walking/laying on my keyboard when it is powered off, but I cannot find a way to do this intentionally.
I have tried to google it, but I am only finding people asking how to do it, and people saying it is not possible.... it is possible for me, as my cat can do it, I just have no idea how! I have poked some buttons and looked around the BIOS settings and have not found anything.
Any ideas?
Gigbyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H motherboard (Windows 7 machine) with Apple USB Keyboard (full)
1@slhck, you close this question too fast. It is a very good question with a very nice answer that explain the reason. If you have let the answer open, more recent way of configuring bios would have probably come out. – Eric Ouellet – 2015-06-30T02:29:03.497
@Eric The OP wanted the question to be closed – slhck – 2015-06-30T18:42:23.297
1@slhck, that's sad. The chosen solution worked for me. But I wanted to add that I also had to move a jumper on my motherboard in order to power the usb device (keyboard or remote keyboard) in order to make it works. Otherwise any action on the keyboard is not seen by the motherboard (no wake up). That information have the potential to help more people but it will probably never be red... – Eric Ouellet – 2015-07-02T03:44:47.827
Does the keyboard have a Power on/off button? – Kevdog777 – 2013-05-17T14:27:28.590
16put your cat on your keyboard? – Journeyman Geek – 2013-05-17T14:33:41.753
@Adam Heath: Are you sure you don't have an old PS/2 mouse and the cat isn't clicking it? – James P – 2013-05-17T14:47:07.527
4Perhaps your cat's a distant relative of Schrödinger's pet and has figured out how to create a quantum computer that is both on and off at the same time! – Karan – 2013-05-17T15:46:03.857
1How many times did your cat manage to do this? It matters in the way to rule out some possibilities mentioned below like: 'was your computer in sleep mode that one time?', 'was your keyboard plugged in a different port?'.. And maybe it means you can just put up a camera and learn from your cat how to do it?! – Yoh – 2013-05-17T15:50:56.537
12 or 3 times over the last year, so not that often. I am pretty sure the machine was powered off each time, but not 100%.... As this does not seem possible, I guess I will have to put this down to my memory/observations being wrong. – Adam Heath – 2013-05-20T07:39:02.993
Closed on behalf of the OP (…or was it your cat who wants to keep their secrets safe?) – slhck – 2013-05-20T07:43:02.853