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Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 5:15 pm
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Posted by jay (131 messages posted)

Have you checked your BIOS power settings? Make certain the "Wake on Modem Ring" and "Wake on PCI PME" are set to "Stay Off." If they are not, change them and see what happens. I had your problem on a brand new computer and it drove me to distraction until I found out about the PCI PME setting. Mine was set to Stay On and when I changed is to Stay Off the problem disappeared and has not returned.

On Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:09 am, Michael wrote:

>
>Good day,
>
>I am experiencing a variation on this theme with Windows 2000 Professional.  I've 
>read through all related articles on Annoyances.org, and on other forums, but have 
>not been able to solve my problem.
>
>My version of the problem: When I choose shut-down to shut down my PC, the PC restarts 
>instead of shutting down.  However, now if I select shut-down, it will shut down 
>fine.  Thus it takes two shut-downs (the first restarting) in order to finally shut 
>down the PC.  After it has finally shut down, the next time I use it, I will get 
>the same behaviour (i.e. it will require two shut-downs in order to actually shut 
>down the PC).
>
>I have tried all of the relevent tips from these pages (e.g. turning off reboot-on-error, 
>upgrading by Easy CD Creator software, etc.) but nothing has worked.
>
>From my point of view, it appears strange that it should shut down fine the second 
>time.  One would think that a device conflict, or something like that, would exist 
>all the time, causing my PC to restart every time I try to shut down.
>
>Please note that I never see a BSOD when the PC restarts.  It almost appears that 
>my PC thinks I chose "restart" instead of "shut-down" when I first try to shut it 
>down.
>
>I have made several changes to the PC recently (software and hardware) so I reckon 
>one of these is to blame, but I would really like to avoid uninstalling everything 
>one-by-one to find out what is causing the problem.  If anyone has seen this before, 
>or can give me some advice in advance, I would very much appreciate it.  If no one 
>can help, then I guess I'll start slowly uninstalling things....
>
>One final thought: I can't be sure, but I think the problem may have appeared after 
>installing a LinkSys Wireless PC card.  Like I said, I upgraded so many things in 
>such a short span of time, I can't be sure about that.  But just in case, has anyone 
>heard of any interactions between Win2000 Pro and these cards?
>
>Finally, I should also mention that otherwise, the PC is in top working condition 
>-- All the devices function as they should, none of them complain, and everything 
>in the hardware device manager looks clean.
>
>Thanks to everyone in advance,
>Michael
>

Written in response to:: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Michael: Friday, February 28, 2003 at 5:09 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Michael: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 5:25 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Mike: Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 4:48 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Rick Bourner: Monday, July 5, 2004 at 2:01 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (steve w: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 5:50 am)

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Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Michael: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 5:09 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (andreas: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 5:49 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Tedrowe Bonner: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 9:22 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Mark Kempner: Sun, Feb 15, 2004, 2:25 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Pual Hunt: Tue, Jan 13, 2004, 3:28 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (josh: Wed, Sep 22, 2004, 5:43 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Andres: Sun, Dec 5, 2004, 1:12 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (jay: Sat, Mar 1, 2003, 5:15 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Michael: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 5:25 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (raz: Tue, May 13, 2003, 8:43 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' also (james: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 5:05 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' also (Tim: Mon, Sep 1, 2003, 1:29 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' also (Ian P: Mon, Nov 3, 2003, 8:49 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Mike: Sat, Oct 4, 2003, 4:48 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (fred: Sat, Mar 20, 2004, 3:08 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Hendrik: Thu, May 13, 2004, 12:40 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Rick Bourner: Mon, Jul 5, 2004, 2:01 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (steve w: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 5:50 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Gary Martin: Sun, May 22, 2005, 11:45 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (FrankBeauregarde: Tue, Oct 18, 2005, 4:57 pm)

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