re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down Monday, October 20, 2003 at 1:48 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tom Myboy (290 messages posted) Is it possible your network card is set to "wake on lan" or you modem is set to "wake on ring". You might want to investigate these two devices to see if they have this capability, and are configured this way. On Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 11:47 pm, Leif wrote: >Hey guys I have a question...... > >My computer is restarting alone after it has been shut down for more than 10 minutes...this >varies a bit...it can be 2 or 30 minutes ....it started happening after I fixed someones >computer.... I hooked up my keyboard, mouse and monitor to his rig ...after I was >done, I hooked everything back up to my rig and everything worked fine.... > >but about 3 minutes after the first shutdown the computer restarted automatically.... > >I've searches extensively in the forums...but I haven't been able to find a solution...everybody >seems to have a problem shutting down....but I can shutdown fine....it just restarts >after a while.....I really don't want to have to reformat the harddrive again and >reinstall windows....I already had to do it once... >hopefully someone has a response.... > >thanks in advance Written in response to: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Leif: Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 11:47 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Leif: Sun, Oct 19, 2003, 11:47 pm) re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Mike: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 1:13 am) re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Leif: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 11:07 am) re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Tom Myboy: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 1:48 pm) re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (C K: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 7:38 pm) re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Leif: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 8:11 pm) 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 XP Discussion Forum