my pc doesn't have restart capability. Why?

[machintos]

I'm trying to install windows XP to my just built PC. But everytime it says that it will automatically restart, my computer just shuts down and won't restart. Even my monitor will go into idle mode. What should I check?

Thanks a lot 🙂

 

[machintos]

For those of you who have been helping me, I have P4G8X deluxe mobo with 2.53 GHz P4 and 1GB PC2700 ram.

Thanks

 

[CraigRT]

That's kinda strange... can't understand why that would happen.

 

[floccus]

Hmm, at first i thought you meant the switch, which would men you have the hader on wrong. But since this is from the OS I have to think that when the board receives the signal to reboot, instead of shutting off the power and then turning it back on, it just shuts it off. Since under the ATX standard the board controls power on/off, this is a very real possibility, which would mean you might need to RMA the board. I'm not sure if BIOS would affect it as I'm pretty sure its just a hardwired thing.