PC rebooting after power cut

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Hola all. I'm not sure if this is the right forum ? My brother has had problems with his PC rebooting after we have a power cut or he plugs it into the socket. I am sure i saw this problem somewhere before here, but have done a search and cant find it.

Is this a BIOS setting needing changed ?

We hae lots of power cuts in winter here so it would be good to find out what the problem is...aj

 

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I know from personal experience! that if things like that start happening I would check my PSU ( power supply unit ) first.

A power cut may have damaged the unit, or try checking the fuse in the plug socket. Sounds stupid I know, but I've learnt to check the most stupid sounding things first, before trying to get clever with BIOS settings ( which I can't see it being ) or other components.

If you have an old PSU that you know is working I suggest just quickly and carefully swapping it over.

How far into the start up procedure does the computer get before re booting?

 

I was just replying when we had a power cut again !! Anyway..

The PC boots and shutsdown no problem. The problem is that if there is a power cut like we just had the PC will boot itself up from shutdown. How do I stop this ?

Cheers...aj

 

Aah, cheers AJ. I will go down to his house tomorow and give it a try. I thought it might be something like that.

It will give me an excuse to drink his beer, I might just have to drag it out a while..

Cheers..Angus J

 

How long are your power cuts? If they're only a few minutes, you could invest in a UPS. Then it wouldn't be affected.