Computer Restarts Itself After Shutdown

[TomG]

Any ideas on this one. This just started happening recently. When I shut
down my system completely, a minute or two later the computer restarts
itself all by itself without me touching anything. This is not from
sleep mode but from complete shutdown. This has never happened before
and the computer is fine otherwise. I have a Gateway Pentium 4 2.8 with
1 gig ram, and there is another computer in the house as a host computer
with a DSL router, but this has never happened before. Thanks. Tom

 

[Malke]

Any ideas on this one. This just started happening recently. When I
shut down my system completely, a minute or two later the computer
restarts itself all by itself without me touching anything. This is
not from sleep mode but from complete shutdown. This has never
happened before and the computer is fine otherwise. I have a Gateway
Pentium 4 2.8 with 1 gig ram, and there is another computer in the
house as a host computer
with a DSL router, but this has never happened before. Thanks. Tom

See if these MS Knowledge Base articles help:

XP Restarts Unexpectedly or Restarts When You Shut Down the Computer -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q320299

XP Restarts When You Try to Shut Down Your Computer -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311806

Malke