Shocking computer on?

[Primal Wolf]

So I'm out in my garage with a power drill working on building a step up for my dogs to get in through the doggy door, and my mom opens the door and asks whether the computer needs to be plugged in, I ask why, and she says it wont turn on.
It was only 2 months ago in which some power surge got through my surge protector and wiped my motherboard and psu, so I'm immediately worried.
I come in and bend down to hit the power button, and I feel a sharp static-like shock from where I touched the computer, and the computer starts booting up. I didnt even hit the power button, I was about to when I felt the static-discharge and the computer turns on and acts like it is booting, only there is no image on the monitor. I try to shut it off and restart it by holding the power button, but it wont shut off, the green light over the top of the button just flashes, same as the restart button.
So by now I'm thinking, "yep, I'm F**ked". So I reach around and shut off the power button on the back. Turn it back on, hit the power button on the front, and the computer starts up perfect, nothing wrong. Now what in the hell is that all about? I think I may move my computer to a new power socket.

 

[VirtualLarry]

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's ... interesting. Can a static shock to the ATX soft-on button connections, trigger an actual power-on of the PSU/system? I thought that pulling that signal to GND is what actually did it.

Edit: Even more interesting, I can't seem to tell the diff. between "Edit" and "Quote". Sorry.