Well I think I definitely borked something up!

[Stool]

Help me out here guys if you can

So the problem started when I told windows xp home too shutdown..... and it did a reset . SO i told it to go do a reset and well it did that right at least. Then from the fresh startup i told it too do a shut down and there it went and resets again......


got up too brush my teeth and tried one last shutdown and wouldnt u know it resets again soooooo (sss this might interest you since u have the same) i decided i have no time for this and hit the HARD power switch on the back of my powersupply.... computer just keeps on bootin up . btw i toggled that switch once per sec just too make sure it not a loose connection....

/me thinks his computer now has a life of its own.

now hopefully someone in this grooup can help me out cos i dont wanna start looking for receipts

plz help me out of this annoyin lil problem

cheers
stool

[fivel]

Stool, how far does it get in the boot process? Does it make any strange beeping sounds when booting....if it does it may be the BIOS telling you something is wrong.

I would suggest you try and provide a bit more info as to what motherboard you have, ram etc and what appears on the screen if anything.

[stoke]

Quick test - unplug the network connection and then shut it down.
If it does not boot then it must be the WakeOnLan setting:
- In BIOS - find the WakeOnLan setting there soemwhere and turn it off.
Then locate the program that turned it on and smack it.

Or ... it's not that.

[Stool]

No see booting up it does perfectly ,right into windows and i play games over my adsl and the network card always sees the adsl router so all is gr8. No bios beeps at all and pc functions great except when you decide that's it for the day and you want to shut it down.

Now it just does a reset (on shut down) but i suspect its not shutting down (closing programs) properly. I cant tell because when i boot up i dont get a dialogue telling me that "windows did not shut down properly do u want to start in safe mode". Hell it might shut the OS down just fine its just too fast for me too notice and its not like i really timed its shut down in the past.

The thing that perplexes me the most of all is the supposed "hard" power switch on the rear of my power supply. Thats supposed control all power to the system and essentially isolate it from the grid so why the heck is the thing still drawing juice and booting up? Did i miss a meeting on power supply design?

At the end of the day its not a serious issue, i was just curious if anyone have seen the same. Yet did the thread cos i hope it doesnt get any worse.

The spec of the machine is
AMD 3500+ 1GB ram
same gigabyte board sss runs
running windows xp home

will hunt the bios tonight for the wake on setting but pretty sure i switched them all off last time

thx for the input so far btw
cheers

[stoke]

*sigh* ... did you try to shut it down with the network cable unplugged ?
Did you ?
Hu hu hu ?

[rainy]

Sounds to me as if soemthign is causing a bluescreen when shutting down, but Windows is set to immediately reset. Are you getting a 'The system recovered from a serious error' message when rebooting?

[Stool]

sorry stoke no i didnt, i said i'd get to that tonight.
reason being i am working on campus now and will only see the tin can again tonight when i get back home.
[stoke editops : sorry dude ... I thought you had tried my suggestion .. heppologies]

[Stool]

not gettin any reports
just rembered now that i can go have a look in the events manager,maybe some clues there, no blue screens tho,unless its too quick for my eyes

[rainy]

Event manager is a good idea. If you don't find anything conclusive, purge the log and then shut down. Will make it easier to sift through whatever happens after the next bootup.

[Albereth]

It might be related to an incomplete update from Security Centre or even your antivirus programme. Perhaps even adobe reader.

You might want to try running something like Registry Mechanic to hunt down and clear out any residual junk.

Just my 2 cents worth - although it may not even be worth that much.