My MBP keeps booting on its own!

[Mac-Addict]

Ok I am scared... My MBP is just booting on its own at night or when Im not at home and I come back to find it on. Its scary in the middle of the night!

 

[nsbio]

Make sure you did not set it up to turn on in Power Saving preferences. It makes a nice prank, by the way.

 

[coledog]

The first version of my Windows desktop used to do that! It is creepy!!

 

[iTim314]

Ok I am scared... My MBP is just booting on its own at night or when Im not at home and I come back to find it on. Its scary in the middle of the night!

It wants to live!

 

[Mac-Addict]

It happened again last night and its MBP isnt on a Schedule to wake up. o.0 Help.

 

[xUKHCx]

Try resetting the PRAM and NVRAM. Not sure if this well help but looking down the list it may have a setting stored which is causing your computer to boot.

Contents of PRAM

Some Macintosh computers may not have all the settings described below. For Mac OS X information, refer to Mac OS X: What's Stored in PRAM?

Status of AppleTalk
Serial Port Configuration and Port definition
Alarm clock setting
Application font
Serial printer location
Autokey rate
Autokey delay
Speaker volume
Attention (beep) sound
Double-click time
Caret blink time (insertion point rate)
Mouse scaling (mouse speed)
Startup disk
Menu blink count
Monitor depth
32-bit addressing
Virtual memory
RAM disk
Disk cache