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| Thread ID: 122576 | 2011-12-31 19:08:00 | PC restarts when I want to shutdown! | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1251444 | 2011-12-31 19:08:00 | I have my grandson's PC to cleanup. When I try to shut the PC off, it restarts. System is Vista. How can I fix this? |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1251445 | 2011-12-31 19:41:00 | When you click start, the shutdown button has an arrow to the right of it click that and choose shutdown | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1251446 | 2011-12-31 19:48:00 | Thanks Gary. Yes I am aware of that. By clicking on that, the system does shutdown only to immediately restart. I'm wondering if it might be a BIOS problem? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1251447 | 2011-12-31 20:02:00 | Look like Roxio software can cause this (in XP). It maybe the same for Vista. It maybe something in startup, thats causing the restart | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1251448 | 2011-12-31 20:56:00 | Thanks Gary. Yes I am aware of that. By clicking on that, the system does shutdown only to immediately restart. I'm wondering if it might be a BIOS problem? Thought I would mention it as I got caught with it when I switched from XP to Win7 |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1251449 | 2011-12-31 21:44:00 | I'm wondering if it might be a BIOS problem? You could be right, have a look under power management settings, Wakeup on LAN/Ring/PCI Device etc should all be disabled; my old AMD machine also has a Automatic Power Up on Alarm feature, maybe there is something similar. Maybe check your CMOS battery too. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1251450 | 2011-12-31 22:03:00 | Is it possible that you could be blue screening on shutdown and then automatically restarting? Just a thought. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1251451 | 2011-12-31 23:52:00 | Check what the actual power buttons are doing. Click start, type in Power open the power settings, Power Options,( you may have to click on change plan settings/advanced) look for These settings (www.howtogeek.com) -- scroll down to the vista instructions. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1251452 | 2012-01-01 04:44:00 | Thank you all for the suggestions. Freesumendjinn was on the money, I found that in the BIOS the "Wakeup on LAN" was enabled. I disabled it and now the PC shuts down. Happy New Year to you all. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1251453 | 2012-01-01 19:39:00 | Yes, I saw this recently on an old machine. The BIOS had mysteriously changed to cause this. | linw (53) | ||
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