>
>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
>
>






Written in response to:
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)


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

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