Hi Kaye,
Not sure it is relevant but I often notice my iMac waking from sleep when I enter the room. Whilst it is nice to imagine I have such a commanding presence that even inanimate objects feel compelled to acknowledge my entry, I suspect the reason is more mundane ;o) Our old house dates from Victorian times and there is a certain amount of bounce & movement in the floorboards – I suspect my entry into the room results in some vibration/movement at the desk which is recognised as a movement of the mouse sufficient to awake from sleep. However, I have never been sufficiently interested to try & prove my hypothesis! If your “problem” was caused by something like this it wouldn’t matter whether you were close to the modem, but not the iMac, but rather whether your approach to the modem resulted in some “vibration” over by the mouse. Of course this is drawing a VERY long bow – and would only even be relevant if the iMac is just waking up from sleep. If you have actually totally shut down the iMac and it is doing a complete bootup from cold – well – do you know any exorcists? Cheers Neil From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of kaye and geoff <k...@kgweb.org.au> Reply-To: <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 12:09 To: <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: auto-starting iMac Hi, This isn't a problem, but a rather puzzling behaviour from my iMac. We have recently connected the NBN to a house we are building, so I have the modem and an old (~2007) iMac in the house, connected by ethernet. Because we aren't living there I turn both computer and modem off most of the time. Right from the start I noticed that if I turned the modem on first the iMac booted itself up without being touched. OK, I can accept that. But one day I reached out to turn on the modem, changed my mind and didn't touch it, but the iMac booted anyway. The next time I was on site I tried an experiment, and just walked over to the modem and waved my hand in front of it. Sure enough, the iMac booted. Yesterday I got Geoff to try (in case I had a high static charge and it was me doing it). He never even got to wave his hand - he just walked briskly over to the modem and the iMac booted! It does seem to be associated with the modem - I can go to the desk and sit in front of the iMac and nothing happens unless I get close to the modem. Any ideas? Cheers, K ------------------------ Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe -
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