re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down Monday, October 20, 2003 at 7:38 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6525 messages posted) See my reply in this thread: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1066231149 Additionally make sure the keyboard isn't set to power up the computer in the BIOS. Disconnect the KB and see what happens. We are seeing this problem more and more in the forum so it has been interesting to find out what people find. There is an outside chance that the KB controller could be doing this so make sure the power up by the KB is disabled in the BIOS as well as all other powerup options. If it is a bad KB controller, it means replacing the motherboard. This is why it is important to pull the plug from the wall or turn off the switch on the powersupply (if so equipped and leave it plugged in which keeps the system grounded) and wait for about 1 minute to drain power from the PS and motherboard before disconnecting any peripheral from the motherboard. I have observed KB controllers destroyed by less.. Do you have a PS2 connection KB or a USB? Post back on what happens.. Reformatting and reinstalling XP won't fix this. It's a problem on the hardware side. C K 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) Responses to this message: re: Computer is restarting alone after 10-20 min. of being shut down (Leif: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 8:11 pm) 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