Whenever I shut down my computer, it immediatly starts back up again. I just built this computer a while ago, and it has done this ever since. I cannot figure it out; I have tried everything.
Running WinXP home SP1 (bleh), on syntax sis s648 mobo, P4 3.06, Radeon 9200se 128mb, maxtor 120gb, etc.
sa_shadow 0 Newbie Poster
TallCool1 81 Practically a Posting Shark Team Colleague
Whenever I shut down my computer, it immediately starts back up again. I just built this computer a while ago, and it has done this ever since. I cannot figure it out; I have tried everything.
Running WinXP home SP1 (bleh), on syntax sis s648 mobo, P4 3.06, Radeon 9200se 128mb, maxtor 120gb, etc.
There's a fix for this; search on the Microsoft website. What's happening is that Windows is crashing while shutting down -- and the default action under XP is to reboot on a crash. This can be changed, and it may help in diagnosis.
The likely problem is a bad driver not "letting go" properly at shutdown. For starters, check to make sure all drivers are up-to-date.
sa_shadow 0 Newbie Poster
I cannot seem to find anything on the microsoft pages, but I did open the startup and recovery settings and under system failure I unchecked the automatic restart function, though it didn't help at all.
Tekmaven 258 Software Architect Team Colleague
Do you have APM enabled in your BIOS? What about ACPI? What motherboard do you have?
sa_shadow 0 Newbie Poster
I have a syntax s648 mobo, and I do have ACPI enabled, but I don't think it has APM, or I cannot find it or any references to it.
sa_shadow 0 Newbie Poster
Ayh, I think that I have corrected the problem. It seems that something is awry with my sound card (It's really cheap), and so I turned off "Power up on PCI" in BIOS. Everything seems to be going fine now.
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