I just built a new PC with an ASRock Z97 Extreme4 as the motherboard. The other specs are listed in my user profile.
The PC seems to have two issues: one; it sometimes boots itself up; and two, the motherboard seems to always be powered, even if the machine is shut down, which I can't help but feel is related to the first issue.
I built the machine less than a week ago, and it's now powered itself on twice. The first time, it powered itself back on from sleep when I put it to sleep in the middle of the afternoon. The second time, it powered on 5-10 minutes after being shut down at around midnight.
Steps I've taken to solve this problem: I investigated a few BIOS options to try to get the machine to stay off, and found that Wake on LAN and the dehumidifier, which were the most likely culprits, were both already disabled. I also discovered that the Intel LAN driver I installed from the motherboard driver disc had some Wake on LAN stuff enabled, so I turned that all off. Finally, I scrubbed a piece of bloatware out of my system (Conduit SearchProtect) that somehow got installed while I was setting everything up. I can't tell yet whether the problem has been solved, although the system hasn't booted itself up over the last few days.
I provide internet to the machine through a homeplug. On my old build, when I shut down the machine, the homeplug would go to sleep after five minutes or so. On the new build, the homeplug never goes to sleep. The lights continue to flash as if it's still delivering data, and the orange light on the motherboard's LAN port also periodically flashes, as if it's receiving data even though it's powered off.
I also have a USB microphone (Blue Snowball) plugged into one of the rear USB 3.0 ports. The mic has a red power LED on it. On my old build, when I shut down, the LED would go off. On the new build, the LED never turns off. I experimented with swapping the mic around to all eight of the rear USB ports while the machine was off, and the power LED always turned on when the mic was plugged in.
When I shut the computer off last night, the microphone LED and homeplug both stayed on all night.
What can I change to get the board to completely power off on shutdown? I've poked around in the BIOS looking for settings that might be related to USB charging, but I haven't found anything helpful. I found one other thread somewhere where someone had the same issue, and they fixed it by toggling the "Play On/Off" setting in their BIOS, which I don't have. I'd prefer not to have to switch off my PSU and/or unplug all of my components every night... especially given that this board has a widely reported issue where it sometimes bricks when you disconnect the power supply.
I found another thread from October where someone is having the same issue with a different ASRock board.
The PC seems to have two issues: one; it sometimes boots itself up; and two, the motherboard seems to always be powered, even if the machine is shut down, which I can't help but feel is related to the first issue.
I built the machine less than a week ago, and it's now powered itself on twice. The first time, it powered itself back on from sleep when I put it to sleep in the middle of the afternoon. The second time, it powered on 5-10 minutes after being shut down at around midnight.
Steps I've taken to solve this problem: I investigated a few BIOS options to try to get the machine to stay off, and found that Wake on LAN and the dehumidifier, which were the most likely culprits, were both already disabled. I also discovered that the Intel LAN driver I installed from the motherboard driver disc had some Wake on LAN stuff enabled, so I turned that all off. Finally, I scrubbed a piece of bloatware out of my system (Conduit SearchProtect) that somehow got installed while I was setting everything up. I can't tell yet whether the problem has been solved, although the system hasn't booted itself up over the last few days.
I provide internet to the machine through a homeplug. On my old build, when I shut down the machine, the homeplug would go to sleep after five minutes or so. On the new build, the homeplug never goes to sleep. The lights continue to flash as if it's still delivering data, and the orange light on the motherboard's LAN port also periodically flashes, as if it's receiving data even though it's powered off.
I also have a USB microphone (Blue Snowball) plugged into one of the rear USB 3.0 ports. The mic has a red power LED on it. On my old build, when I shut down, the LED would go off. On the new build, the LED never turns off. I experimented with swapping the mic around to all eight of the rear USB ports while the machine was off, and the power LED always turned on when the mic was plugged in.
When I shut the computer off last night, the microphone LED and homeplug both stayed on all night.
What can I change to get the board to completely power off on shutdown? I've poked around in the BIOS looking for settings that might be related to USB charging, but I haven't found anything helpful. I found one other thread somewhere where someone had the same issue, and they fixed it by toggling the "Play On/Off" setting in their BIOS, which I don't have. I'd prefer not to have to switch off my PSU and/or unplug all of my components every night... especially given that this board has a widely reported issue where it sometimes bricks when you disconnect the power supply.
I found another thread from October where someone is having the same issue with a different ASRock board.
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