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Vista restarts instead of shutting down
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Vista restarts instead of shutting down
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:56 am
Posted by Ed
(2 messages posted)
When I shut down my machine, Vista goes through the shut down process just fine,
the machine switches off, lights go out, fan stops, and then after about 2-3 seconds
of silence it starts up again all by itself.
The only way to switch it off, is to wait until the machine shuts down, and then
quickly switch off the power at the power supply switch!
If I switch the power supply back on again then the machine will stay switched off,
so this must be some shut down issue?
I have been through the bios settings to disable all wake ups.
I have set power management to shut down not hibernate.
This started happening after a windows vista automatic update.
So I guess two questions,
1. Any ideas how to stop this?
2. If I upgrade to Windows 7 is this likely to solve it?
Cheers
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re: Vista restarts instead of shutting down
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:28 am
Posted by Steve
(23810 messages posted)
Windows computers will restart when Windows crashes. So yours is probably Crashing
when you shut down, so it restarts instead. You can turn that feature off in System
Properties, under the Start up and Recovery Tab. un-check Automaticaly Restart.
Uninstall
the Update and see if it corrects the problem also.
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re: Vista restarts instead of shutting down
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:39 am
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8787 messages posted)
Follow Steve's advice to disable auto restart. Upgrading to windows 7 is very unlikely
to help, upgrade installs are prone to problems on perfectly running systems. On
one already acting up they are likely to just amplify and worsen the existing problems
while adding new ones.
On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:56 am, Ed wrote:
>When I shut down my machine, Vista goes through the shut down process just fine,
>the machine switches off, lights go out, fan stops, and then after about 2-3 seconds
>of silence it starts up again all by itself.
>
>The only way to switch it off, is to wait until the machine shuts down, and then
>quickly switch off the power at the power supply switch!
>
>If I switch the power supply back on again then the machine will stay switched off,
>so this must be some shut down issue?
>
>I have been through the bios settings to disable all wake ups.
>I have set power management to shut down not hibernate.
>
>This started happening after a windows vista automatic update.
>
>So I guess two questions,
>1. Any ideas how to stop this?
>2. If I upgrade to Windows 7 is this likely to solve it?
>
>Cheers
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re: Vista restarts instead of shutting down
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:10 am
Posted by Ed
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for the advice - a good idea, I tried it, but unfortunately it made no difference,
machine just starts itself up again.
This has been happening for some time, so I have no idea which update it was that
caused it, so I cant uninstall it.
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