Tell computer to shut down but it reboots?

[ellisz]

Hello,

This is a minor annoyance of mine. I leave my computer on all the time but occasionally, I need to shut it down. When I go into the shutdown menu and tell it to shutdown, it re-boots. If I let it load up again and then tell it to shut down it normally works. I believe it started doing it after I set up the network and started leaving it on all the time.

I had tried some settings in the BIOS trying to get the other network computers to "wake up" this machine. I could never get the WOL to work right. I have since re-looked at the BIOS but nothing jumps out at me ...

Any ideas?

System:
WinXP
EPOX Motherboard
768MB DDR RAM PC2100
2 HD's
nothing really special ...

Thanks

 

[ellisz]

anyone?

 

[cleverhandle]

By default, XP will reboot on a fatal error. You're probably getting some kind of error on shutdown, which triggers the reboot. You can change the error response somewhere in My Computer --> Properties, IIRC. Then, at error time, you should see a blue screen or something that gives you some hints about the problem. Search the web with any error messages you receive - a lot of XP shutdown problems are very common and well documented.

 

[Kinesis]

Quick Question.

Do you have Fast Reboot Enabled? i.e. X-Setup or Tweak Software somewhere which have set Fast Reboot? I found this problem by accident one time, and it was a setting in X-Setup (ala...the Registry) that would cause my computer to reboot when I chose Shutdown.

Just a thought....

 

[Convergys]

sort of close to what cleverhandle wrote

Start-> right click my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> Under startup/recovery hit settings -> under system failure uncheck the box for automatically restart

 

[crisscross]

I had the same problem, got it working now thanks to your suggestions

 

[ellisz]

Thanks for the tips. I will try those suggestions tonight.

Maybe I will find out why my Unreal Tournament stopped working too ... I installed my Logitech elite duo and now I get general protection fault messages and it won't even boot up. Not sure if it is the Keyboard/mouse install or the UT updates I installed. I might have to do a restore ....

Thanks

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Convergys
sort of close to what cleverhandle wrote

Start-> right click my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> Under startup/recovery hit settings -> under system failure uncheck the box for automatically restart

Thanks - that's exactly what I meant, but wasn't in Windows at the time.