Shutdown = Restart?!?

[bobsaget]

I am running XP and when I go to shut down, my comp restarts. It turns on and hibernates just fine. I built it myself, is it something wrong with the wires or the software? How can I fix it?

thanks

 

[SarverSystems]

Mine does the same thing. I hafta run over and smack the power button right as it starts to boot up again.

I have no answer for you though.

 

[bobsaget]

lol. thats what i do right now.

 

[Protoform-X]

Check your wake on LAN settings. My cable modem turned my computer on immediately when I tried to turn it off with WOL enabled.

 

[darktiger]

Look at your bios settings, under advance power options, or something like that depending on your mb.

 

[Kenbo]

I ran into this problem after installing a no-name PCI wireless card and I solved it by going to system properties and turning off "reboot upon service failure" or something like that

My computer->properties->advanced->startup and recovery->system failure restart

 

[dwayne001]

Check your power on-led umper configs. I had the problem and I took some time ot look at those--apparently, I had some of the on/of jumpers done backwards....switcheing them around not only gave me the ability to turn things off, it gave me an LED on the case light that I didn't even know was there.

The windows settings option is great. A friend of mine had hte no-name PCI card problem as well.

 

[angrybusdriver]

Recently had a client with the same problems. Check your Windows power management settings, there may be something in there.

 

[Groover500]

Older versions of Roxio's burning software can also cause WinXP to not shut down properly (causing a reboot). There will be a quick BSOD just before it does this.

Updating it fixes the problem.