I finally fixed this. Downgrading the bios would still show the same auto power on, just at a different time. The fix is this: - Go into your bios settings, and enable "auto power on " and select a day under "auto power on mode". - Save bios settings, let it boot up to windows. - Restart, go back into bios and disable "auto power on", save and reboot.   That fixed it finally for me. Like I speculated before, it looks like the bios update is not truly displaying the correct settings for your bios and it shows off when it's actually on. Forcing it on/off fixes it.
Ever since I upgraded to bios version 2.1.2, I am greeted every evening by my Alienware having itself turned on. I have double checked my bios settings, I see nothing that is set to auto start it. It has never done this until bios version 2.1.2. This is extremely annoying, since I cannot see how to make it stop.   [IMAGE]
Aurora R10, powers up itself each day