computer restarts after shutdown

[PWY]

When I attempt a soft shutdown, the computer shuts down then immediately
restarts. The operating system is Windows XP sp 3 on a Pentium 7 Northwood
board and processor.

Any ideas appreciated.

PWY

 

[david]

When I attempt a soft shutdown, the computer shuts down then immediately
restarts. The operating system is Windows XP sp 3 on a Pentium 7
Northwood board and processor.

Any ideas appreciated.

PWY

You are selecting "shutdown" and not "restart" aren't you?

 

[Paul]

When I attempt a soft shutdown, the computer shuts down then immediately
restarts. The operating system is Windows XP sp 3 on a Pentium 7
Northwood board and processor.

Any ideas appreciated.

PWY

Wake on LAN setting of your LAN chip ? Options are shown
in Device Manager, for the LAN chip. Some LAN chips will
wake the computer, on the first bit of LAN activity.
Other settings are also required to make that work,
such as "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby".

An immediate restart might also be caused by a crash during
the shutdown process. You can try this, to convert the
crash into a BSOD. This is what you do, to make a BSOD
stand still long enough to write it down.

Control Panels:System:Advanced:Startup and Recovery:untick Automatically restart

HTH,
Paul

 

[Flasherly]

When I attempt a soft shutdown, the computer shuts down then immediately
restarts. The operating system is Windows XP sp 3 on a Pentium 7 Northwood
board and processor.

Any ideas appreciated.

PWY

Hmmm...cheap, shoddy, crap parts sound like an idea?

And or a potential PS. Not saying necessarily they apply to you ...
I've run with less than optimal case builds that didn't have the
finest reset or power strobe switches. Keep a junk collection box,
besides, with some microswitch scavenges, though only recall once
replacing a PWR/RESET strobe switch (very identifiable);- another I'd
have to hold down the PWR for several seconds to force a shutdown (or
it would similarly restart itself), which may have gotten fixed with a
better PS.

Odds and ends and sorts of stopgap things for flying out the chair and
yanking the damn power cord out the PS unit, if you get my drift.

Anyway...nice thing is crap shouldn't cost much more than long enough
to get by and buy something decent. (...see me complaining about a
couple nifty Antecs and some decent PS units on decent sales/rebates?
<

 

[PWY]

Wake on LAN setting of your LAN chip ? Options are shown
in Device Manager, for the LAN chip. Some LAN chips will
wake the computer, on the first bit of LAN activity.
Other settings are also required to make that work,
such as "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby".

An immediate restart might also be caused by a crash during
the shutdown process. You can try this, to convert the
crash into a BSOD. This is what you do, to make a BSOD
stand still long enough to write it down.

Control Panels:System:Advanced:Startup and Recovery:untick
Automatically restart

HTH,
Paul

Thanks for the suggestions guys. The automatic restart was already disabled
as was the Wake on Lan setting.

The power supply comment is interesting as this all began after I tried to
install a second hard drive. The hard drive was formatted but did not work
right in that Acronis True Image would not work and diagnostic software
would not complete a run on the drive. I disconnected the drive for a day or
two then thought maybe the cable was at fault. ( It had been the only drive
on it's cable)
I changed jumpers on both drives to master and slave and reconnected the
drive on the "C" drive cable. The computer would not boot past the bios
screen. Both drives were set to Cable select.
In any case I dropped the idea of installing the second drive, believing it
to be defective. It is a new Western Digital drive I bought a couple years
ago and put on the shelf and forgot about it until recently.

PWY

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

When I attempt a soft shutdown, the computer shuts down then immediately
restarts. The operating system is Windows XP sp 3 on a Pentium 7
Northwood board and processor.

Any ideas appreciated.

PWY

You might want to verify that your motherboard is not set to power back
on after a power reset (not all motherboards have the option but nice
for servers).

Possibly your BIOS settings were glitched slightly when you put in the
other hard drive.

 

[PWY]

You might want to verify that your motherboard is not set to power back on
after a power reset (not all motherboards have the option but nice for
servers).

Possibly your BIOS settings were glitched slightly when you put in the
other hard drive.

Problem solved.
In the BIOS, ' Wake on PME event was enabled. I disabled it and no more
restarts after shutdown.
Thanks to all who replied.

PWY