re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 5:25 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Michael (2 messages posted) Hi all, First off, thanks to everyone who pondered my problem. Andreas: Thanks for the tip. I tried it out, but unfortunately it didn't help in my situation. Jay: You got it! Turning off "PME Wake up" did the trick! I was quite surprised, because I didn't think a BIOS change would do it. After all, I hadn't changed my BIOS settings recently, so why should they be at fault (or so I thought)? I think I have an idea of the root cause: I recently installed a wireless PCI LAN card. I reckon that if this card is still getting signals from my Wireless Access Point at shutdown, it will trigger the PME Wake Up feature, which will switch the PC on again. At times when this happens, I always switch the PC off again straight away, probably before the wireless PCI card has time to establish a connection with the WAP. Thus during the second shutdown attempt, the PME Wake Up feautre is not envoked, and the PC stays off. This would explain why I needed two shutdowns to turn the PC off. I could probably test my theory by turning PME Wake Up back on, and try turning off my WAP before shutting down the PC. My guess is that with the wireless connection broken, the wireless card would no longer trigger PME Wake Up, and my PC would stay off. On the other hand, maybe I'll just let sleeping dogs lie.... Thanks again, everyone. Once again, Annoyances.org has solved my problem! Michael On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 5:15 pm, jay wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (jay: Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 5:15 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (raz: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 8:43 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] 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) re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer restarts instead of shutting down' (Alan Shine: Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 2:41 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum