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Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 3:08 am
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Posted by fred (1 messages posted)

Hi, I've read your advice and I would like to change the BIOS power settings, but I really don't know how to do it? Would somebody be so kind to give me a hint? I would be very grateful! Thanks!!!!

On Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 4:48 pm, Mike wrote:
>Thanks Jay, this fixed my problems as well. I was about to toss this PC out the window.
>
>Mike
>
>
>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' (Mike: Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 4:48 pm)

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