help my pc automatically starts up by itself at midnight every night. It just starts up to the login screen. I have tried virus scans ns sypware scans but nothing shows up. Where shout I look next?

Hello tonymordaunt,

Welcome to PCHF. This would never be caused by a virus.

Check your BIOS settings (F1, F2 or [DEL]) when booting up.

Some BIOS allow you to auto boot at a set time, normally found in Power Management.

Also look out for external sources that may be causing your problem. Is there something that happens at midnight? You can also disable things in BIOS such as wake up on lan, and resume on power failure.

All BIOS are different, but here is an example:

thanks Mad Monkey. I checked my Bios setting like you said and there was the automatic start up set to "00:00 every day". I changed that to "Disabled".
I must have changed that when I was tutu-ing around when my pc had trouble booting.
You are a gem. That had me stumped for weeks.

Glad to know its fixed Tony!

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